New 2025 Ford Maverick Lobo brings tuner style, drifting dynamics, to compact pickups
Mark PhelanThe baby sport truck is back. Ford studied vehicles modified by enthusiasts and tuners and dipped into its parts bin to create the 2025 Maverick Lobo, a lowered, modified compact pickup that’s just dying to be tricked out with LEDs and drifted.
Available early next year, the Maverick Lobo gets a host of performance and styling changes.
Prices start at $35,000 and can top $40,000, before the mandatory $1,595 destination charge.
Ford also released prices for the rest of the 2025 Maverick lineup, which adds features, including all-wheel drive for its popular hybrid model. Non-Lobo Mavericks should be on sale late this year. Dealers are already taking orders for the $40,495 top model. The order book for the $35,000 base Lobo opens late this year.
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2025 Ford Maverick trim levels and prices
- XL hybrid FWD: $26,295
- XLT hybrid FWD: $28,795
- Lariat Ecoboost AWD: $35,535
- Lariat hybrid AWD: $36,735
- Tremor Ecoboost AWD: $39,795
- Lobo Ecoboost AWD with standard equipment package: $35,000
- Lobo Ecoboost AWD with high equipment package: $40,495
- AWD drivetrain adds $2,200 to price of FWD XL and XLT
Prices exclude $1,595 destination charge
Street-style wheels and more
Ford says the Lobo completes the Maverick model line: skatepark-ready looks and handling to complement the off-road Tremor and efficient hybrid base model.
Visual changes to the Lobo include:
- Black roof
- Black 19-inch wheels
- New grille with vertical bars
- Front ride height lowered half-inch
- Rear ride height 1.12 inch lower
- 0.8-inch lower roof height
- Body-color fascias
- Interior Grabber Blue or Electric Lime accent stitching
- Graffiti-style overprint on seats
Performance-oriented running gear
To give the Lobo authentic performance characteristics, Ford tweaked some parts, dipped into its global model line for others.
The Maverick’s 238-horsepower 2.0L four-cylinder engine is standard. Its output is unchanged but Ford wrote new calibrations for better performance drivability.
The most surprising change may be the “seven-speed“ transmission. Physically, it’s the same eight-speed automatic all 2.0L Mavericks get, but Ford reprogrammed it to skip third gear, because the transmission would otherwise shift back and forth too frequently in enthusiastic driving.
Other changes:
- Paddle shifters
- Stiffer springs and strut mounts
- Monotube rear shocks from the Maverick Tremor
- Twin-clutch rear drive unit
- Upgraded brakes, including dual-piston front calipers shared with European Focus ST
- New brake pads for less noise and dust.
- Faster steering ratio shared with European Kuga compact SUV
- “Lobo mode” to emphasize cornering capability and reduce understeer on closed courses
- Larger radiator
- Transmission cooler
2025 Ford Maverick Lobo at a glance
Compact pickup
Five-passenger crew cab
Base price: $35,535, plus $1,595 delivery charge
All-wheel drive
Power: 238-hp 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder
Transmission: Seven-speed automatic
Fuel Economy: TBA
Assembled in Hermosillo, Mexico.
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