If you plan to do actual truck stuff then don't get a maverick.

>>28829353
I don't. At most I'll be using the bed to get mulch or transport furniture / items that won't fit in an enclosed vehicle.

>>28829349
The 2.0 might be the best 4 cylinder of the modern era. It's not hard at all to find focus sts with over 100k miles and some are even pushing 200k. The downside is the transmission its attached to. We're living in the dark ages of Ford transmissions right now, not that there was ever really a golden era either. Put a catch can on it to alleviate carbon build up and that's it. Truthfully I don't know enough about the maverick specifically to say if the accessories are reliable but I know from my time in the ST crowd, the engine itself is a beast.

>>28829359
Then 191 hp will be completely fine.

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>>28829349
Its more than 190hp. The 190 rating is the ice engine alone, not including the electric motors. Its not fast but its fast enough. I think its only like 0.2s slower to 60.

Get a 2025 with awd, hybrid and 4k tow.

maverick is absolute trash
the ford escape is cheap shitty garbage its just a shitty ford escape dating back to a decade old design with a pickup bed, if you wanna buy it to look manly, whatever, if you want a good car, get something else

>>28829349
Pass on the Ecoboost. I have a 2023 hybrid. Highway trips at 78mph cruise control and rolling hills I get about 36mpg. 42ish in town City stuff. Back roads 2lane ~50mph roads I can do about 50-56mpg.

The eCVT is bomb proof. They upgraded the H50 in 2025 to be even stronger.

A 6'2" person can sit comfortably in the front seat with a passenger on the back. Great visibility while driving. I do feel like I'm in a small car next to something like a lifted super duty, but otherwise it's decent to drive. I've put over 1000lbs of dirt, mulch, and wood in the bed. That's about my limit for how much I really wanna do in a weekend, and I can reach the bottom of the bed while standing next to the truck.

Downsides are you end up driving like an old man most of the time as 215hp isn't big. It feels cheap sometimes and that's because they had to cut some corners to keep the prices down, not deal breakers considering it's nearly half the price of an F150. There's a bunch of base models on the road acting as work trucks, but that only matters if you think it does. The other downside is it's simply not rated to tow a car on a trailer. If you don't do that it's irrelevant.

Overall it's a cheap and sensible vehicle not pretending to be anything it isn't. The only people who hate them are dorks like >>28829353 >>28829464 claiming it's not a "real truck" or some bullshit about it being based on the escape unibody.

>>28829464
Which "good car" would you recommend that starts sub 30k and has an open air bed?

>>28829530
give up on the open air bed and use an suv like 99% of people use, or just get a used ranger/colorado or even a used santa cruz if you MUST be a truggfag
but can you admit you really want it to look macho and will never use the bed?
>starts sub 30k
the actual transaction prices for most mavericks are far higher than that and you get a car thats not only outdated but bare bones in features

>>28829568
>give up on the open air bed
Not an argument. It's a feature I want.
>just get a used ranger/colorado
Too big on the outside, too small on the inside, too expensive, I don't need or want the offroad capabilities
>or even a used santa cruz
How in any dimension of any reality is this a better option than a Maverick. It's more expensive and worse in literally every single way. There's a very very good reason it's going out of production after only 4 years

>>28829349
Don't buy an Ecoboost. I don't give a shit what they say about modern turbos, an aluminum block with an open deck does not make a turbocharged engine that will make it to 200k trouble free.That plus the turbo will always shit itself before you're prepared and that's several thousand to replace.

Why yes my stepdad does own an F-150 with a 3.5 ecoboom, how did you guess?

You Maverick people are so fucking stupid.

https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/ford-recalls-maverick-rerecalls-fix

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trucks are the most retarded dailies and LOL @ 191hp holy FUCK that's weak

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>>28829599
>It's a feature I want.

>>28829349
I recently got a Ridgeline as a new daily.
Only sucky thing is it's automatic and averages below 20mpg
I say go for it.

>>28829704
You said, "just use an SUV", right? Well I never have more than 3 passengers so I don't need a third row, it would just always be used all the time for cargo. Now imagine a cargo area that didn't have any carpet in it so you could put dirty stuff in it and not make a mess, and stuff you put back there wouldn't tear up the carpet or interior trim pieces, and then there was a wall in between the cargo area and the passenger area so the climate control could maintain an ambient temperature more easily, and if you had trash or something back there then you couldn't smell it, and if you put something longer back there then you could drive around with the liftgate down without the extra road noise or dirt or rain getting in the car, and since it's open air you could even put stuff back there was taller than what could fit in an SUV. Hey all that extra practicality sounds pretty dang useful doesn't it.

>>28829718
I didn't say that
I said >>28829700

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You can get a pretty clean v6 one of these for half the price and have 2 feet more bed space (lmao @ a 4ft bed on a "truck") and a much more reliable drivetrain. Buy a miata or some fun shitbox with the extra cash and enjoy

>>28829722
v6lets are a dealbreaker like gay eps and faggy ipad touchscreens

>>28829717
You know that's what a V8 half ton gets right? I sure hope to hell that "ride quality" is worth it.

>>28829725
you can also get it in an inline 4 if you enjoy being raped & gaped by the superior engine layout

>>28829730
3cylinderlets, 4cylinderlets, 5cylinderlets, and v6lets are all dealbreakers

>>28829721
Cool, then I wasn't talking to you, was I

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>>28829568
>santa cruz