Ford is tapping into the "street truck" subculture with the newly revealed Maverick Lobo. The new offering adds improved chassis tuning, a lowered ride height, and sporty design to the popular pickup.
To ensure that the Lobo delivers on-road thrills, Ford lowered the Maverick by 12.7 mm (0.5 inches) at the front, and 28.4 mm (1.12 inches) at the back, bringing the roof height down by 20 mm (0.8 inches).
In addition, the Maverick Lobo’s engineers raided the Ford Performance parts bin and equipped the truck with the brake callipers from the European Focus ST. They also tuned the steering to make the pickup handle more like a car and gave it torque vectoring (which distributes power to each side of the vehicle strategically) to help it take corners faster.
That allowed the engineering team to create a “Lobo” mode for the truck. Ford compares it to the track mode on the Mustang because it activates torque vectoring and reduces the amount that the stability control system intervenes, minimizing understeer, improving cornering performance, and allowing to truck to get a little slidey.
To ensure the Maverick Lobo remains reliable, Ford equipped its powertrain with the enhanced cooling package that was initially created for the 4K Towing Package (which takes the size of the trailer the truck can tow from 2,000 lbs to 4,000 lbs).
Like the off-road-oriented Maverick Tremor, the Lobo is powered by the 2.0L turbocharged internal combustion-only EcoBoost engine. Unfortunately, the engine won’t make any more power in the Lobo than it does on any other trim. Even more disappointingly, Ford's promotional material suggests that the engine has detuned for the 2025 model year, meaning that it only makes 238 horsepower, as compared to 2024's official rating of 250 hp. A Ford spokesperson explained to AutoTrader that the 12 horses were lost due to emissions requirements. A a newly-installed gas particulate filter "reduces the maximum horsepower that we can deliver," the spokesperson wrote.
In terms of design, the Maverick Lobo gets a unique front end, a painted rear bumper, painted rocker moldings, and a black painted roof, in addition to 19-inch black wheels. Inside, it gets Grabber Blue and Electric Lime accent stitching, with graffiti-inspired “overspray” on the upholstery.
The Maverick Lobo will come in two configurations: Standard and high. While the standard model comes with everything described above, the high configuration adds a heated steering wheel and seats, Ford Co-Pilot360 2.0, a 360-degree camera, a spray-in bedliner, a moon roof, as well as Pro Trailer Assist and Pro Trailer Backup Assist.
Order books for the 2025 Ford Maverick Lobo open on August 1, and deliveries start early next year.
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