Unsurprisingly, the current inventory and a later on-sale timeframe for the hybrid meant pickings were beyond slim: When we started searching in November, just seven Maverick examples nationwide on fit the bill for our needs. Spreadsheets at the ready, we set out to find an XLT or Lariat in front-drive hybrid format with the Co-Pilot360 and luxury packages.
We also wanted Ford’s Co-Pilot360 suite, which adds a blind spot warning system and lane departure warning with steering assist it’s a prerequisite for the luxury-packaged Lariat, at any rate. That restricted us to the XLT or Lariat, with the heaters courtesy of an optional luxury package on either trim. The Maverick comes in XL, XLT and Lariat trims, and we toyed with the idea of buying a base-grade XL just to prove it’s not a penalty box (it really isn’t) but decided we’d need creature comforts like heated seats for duty around ’s Chicago offices. (Ford also offers a gas-only Maverick with a 250-hp, turbo four-cylinder and available all-wheel drive.) 2022 Ford Maverick | photo by Christian Lantry As a priority, we wanted the Maverick hybrid because it’s the more notable offering: a front-wheel-drive-only pickup with a total 191-horsepower, 2.5-liter hybrid four-cylinder and an EPA-rated 37 mpg combined. What We WantedĮven in the best of times, we seldom get our exact wish list of features, trim levels and colors, but it’s always instructive to specify them in the first place. Predictably, the choices narrowed faster than the walls of a Death Star trash compactor. It’s ’s annual tradition to buy and own our Best Of-winning vehicle - our top award - for at least a year, so we surveyed the landscape to see which version of the Maverick we’d buy. In the more than 10 years we’ve been purchasing long-term test vehicles, we can’t say we experienced anything quite like this. It showed up on a vehicle carrier in late January, a painless ending to an uncertain process started in early November. We don’t believe we received any special treatment from Ford in terms of pricing or availability in fact, we paid more than sticker price. A combination of dogged efforts and sheer luck landed us a well-equipped Maverick Lariat with the hybrid engine, a combination that’s been sold out for new orders since late 2021.
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James Raia, a syndicated columnist in Sacramento, California, publishes a free weekly automotive podcast and electronic ’s editorial department just purchased a 2022 Ford Maverick, an all-new compact pickup truck in especially high demand amid an ongoing inventory crisis, and we did so outside the ordering process.
New Ford pickup truck? Yup? The Reveal is set for June 8thĢ022 Truck Preview: No name yet, but Ford Maverick likely Here, in reverse order, are the top-10 cheapest pickup trucks currently available and the respective entry-level starting prices.įor comparison, the average price of a new pickup truck early in 2021 surpassed $40,000 for the first time.Ĩ.
And the Maverick comes with a crew-cab body style, not a stubby extended-cab or two-door regular cab. The new Maverick also has an all-wheel-drive option and a turbocharged, four-cylinder, non-hybrid. The least-expensive Maverick XL is two-wheel, front-wheel drive and it’s a hybrid – it’s the only hybrid on the 10-top cheapest pickup truck list, according to MotorTrend. But via dollars alone, Ford has put the other manufacturers on notice: The pickup truck battle is on.Īs for the Maverick, here’s what the $21,490 starting price will buy: Of course, payload, towing capacity, model year and many other factors make the list of the current cheapest pickup trucks skewed.
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