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 I just heard about this:  https://www.ford.com/trucks/maverick/2022/?intcmp=hp-bb-maverick

A 40mpg city compact uni-body pickup with the 2.5L Hybrid with a FWD.  The FX4 has the 2.0L Eco-boost and it is AWD. 

My first thought is that it is a city truck. Load it up with the FX4 and the AWD should be capable for easy off-road. The FX4 should also be good in areas that have snow for months on end.



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 I have been looking at it, want a single cab though. It is what the ranger should have been IMO



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 I would like to see a 5' bed and selectable 4WD instead of AWD. It is hard to imagine a smaller bed capacity than what I currently have. Full loaded Lariat tops out just over $40k or about what the new Lightening Work Truck with extended range battery and no other options.

I wonder how feasible a solar panel array covering the hood, roof, and ad-hoc camper shell would work as far as charging one of the Lightening's? The other question would be how large a generator would I need in the bed to maintain a charge? And could this be done while driving down the road?



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 It has me tempted in a year or two... with my ranger being 23 and all, it's in pretty good shape but it is old, and it won't take much for me to not really want to fix it (blown transmission or engine). and while I do most of my work myself, at that point it just isn't worth my time to fix. My parents are giving me an 04 tahoe, I was looking at getting a super duty to replace my ranger, because I got 5 kids, but the tahoe will actually fit us, but I still want a truck, and I still need to be able to haul a couple of kids around and if I get 2-3 years out of it, then can give it to my oldest to drive? would be worth it I think. I optioned it up the way I would want it, and it came out under $30k. That's pretty reasonable. I have a Jeep for off road fun. The bed is small, but with 4k in towing... I can just rent a trailer from uhaul.



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 That's 4k max towing with the 2.0L Ecoboost AWD. The FWD only is 2K regardless of powertrain. 

I have priced a dozen configurations to what the specs were.  The 2.0L AWD with 4k towing on a XL comes in at $25.5K. No other options.



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That's 4k max towing with the 2.0L Ecoboost AWD. The FWD only is 2K regardless of powertrain. 

I have priced a dozen configurations to what the specs were.  The 2.0L AWD with 4k towing on a XL comes in at $25.5K. No other options.



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Made some changes. made a reservation, Why not? what's the worst that will happen?



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 The bed in that truck is darn near useless & I have no use for a 4 door. Regular cab or extended cab.



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 Mike69 wrote:
The bed in that truck is darn near useless & I have no use for a 4 door. Regular cab or extended cab.
I would rather have an extended cab that is useless for passengers and another foot and a half to two foot bed. The current configuration I might be able to get my tool box in the bed. It takes up just over half the bed in my Ranger.



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 What you guys want is an actual truck. To me this does not compete with any other actual truck on the market. This competes more with small SUV's. Jeep compass, Honda CRV, Toyota Rav4, etc. I think the benefits come when you consider what they provide, vs having a similar sized vehicle with a truck bed. Though I wouldn't doubt they'll come out with a single cab, or "extended" cab variant with a longer bed at some point. I think that's why they are not offering a badlands trim, since I think more people would buy it over the bronco, I actually bet this will outsell the bronco by a fair bit, especially FWD models with that 40mpg rating. 

has anybody seen any fuel economy ratings for the 2.0t with awd and 4000lb tow rating?



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 I don't know about the 2.0L Ecoboost but a 1.6L Ecoboost on a fusion that normally got 37 mpg highway got 17mpg at 60 mph pulling a 400 LB trailer with a 800 lb motorcycle on it.



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I don't know about the 2.0L Ecoboost but a 1.6L Ecoboost on a fusion that normally got 37 mpg highway got 17mpg at 60 mph pulling a 400 LB trailer with a 800 lb motorcycle on it.
I was thinking daily driving without towing. If I bought one, it is because I need a new daily driver, and decent fuel economy would be nice, but something that could also serve as the "backup" vehicle when I take my jeep off roading. something that could haul the camping gear and some of the kids to the camp site, but not actually do any hard off roading. Full sized trucks struggle on the narrow tracks I take my jeep on.



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 I have had a few Eco-boost vehicles as work vehicles and a 2014 Fusion with the 1.6L eco-boost. For trucks (all f-150) as long as I wasn't pulling a load or didn't have more than 300 lbs in the bed if I kept my foot out of it they got better fuel mileage. If you put 500 lbs in the bed or hooked up a trailer mileage went to worse than  what a 5.0L N/A would get and the performance went down the tubes. With the cars all were front wheel drive and like the truck if you kept your foot out of it it did OK around town. Where they both excelled was on the road, preferably fairly flat lands, and about 65 mph is where they all seemed to have a sweat spot for fuel economy. 

I commonly got 22-25 mpg with the Fusion around town and 37 on the road. If I pushed the road speed up to 70 then it dropped to 35 and at 75 it was down to 33.  At 80 mph I was down around 28.



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 I'm still not interested in taking on payments.  On anything.  Although size wise, I like the Maverick.  The 4 doors could be handy.  Small bed is annoying, but since I don't haul regularly, survivable.  Same with towing.  But I'd have to upgrade the powertrain.  I'm still not sold on the CVT.  I guess what it will take is something serious to break on my Ranger, that I don't want to pay to fix.
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 In my day a Maverick was a car !!!!!. What happened? Why put another pickup on the market to compete against yourself. „



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In my day a Maverick was a car !!!!!. What happened? Why put another pickup on the market to compete against yourself. „
your day was a long time ago, anybody under 40 doesn't remember that car. they already own the brand, and it saves the a TON of money to reuse a name than to come up with a new one. and they are not competing with themselves at all. only 10% of F series trucks were bought by females, where 40% of mavericks have been bought by females. I think it is also 75% first time truck buyers as well. They are 100% going after people who have been on the edge of buying a truck for years, and can finally afford one, and justify one based off the total package.



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My first 2 cars were Mavericks. Just sayin...
I had a cousin that had a Maverick Grabber. It was a 5 year old 1974 with a tired engine (she was in high school). Her brother and dad rebuilt the engine where they doubled the HP. The Grabber had hood vents, a graphics package, and a limited slip rear.  It was a basic car that lasted till she got her first job after college. Her second paycheck as a school teacher and she was at the Ford dealer where she got a loaded Tempo with an auto transmission with the Grabber as a trade-in.



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 They had a 4 door family looking version with the grabber 302 in it. No distinguishing marks until you opened the hood. I remember working on one in 77 while I was still in high school.



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 Yep, those mid 70's 302 engines were powerhouses at 142 HP.  Then I complain about the 160HP 3.SLO in my Ranger. 

I miss the F-350 XLT  V-10 pickup I had when I was a field engineer. It had a 35 gallon tank and I would drive 330 miles where I would put 30 gallons in it with the company card. The tires didn't seem to last very long in that truck. It was an extended cab XLT that was very well optioned.



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 I like the idea behind it and have seen a few in person and over 40 mpg will be a strong selling point in the land of $4 a gallon gas where I live. I like it, if I were ever to get one (unlikely because I don't want a payment) it would be AWD.



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 the land of $4 a gallon gas where I live.
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 I saw one in white yesterday at work & was not impressed with it.



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