Photo: Kolesa.ru
Hyundai is putting the finishing touches on the Santa Cruz, a crossover-styled pickup to be manufactured in the United States for North America. Ford, by comparison, already makes the Maverick in Mexico at Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly alongside the Bronco Sport.
According to a sales report for February 2021, the Blue Oval manufactured no fewer than 21 examples of the breed. Already snapped on public roads and the assembly line, the Maverick has been masterfully rendered by our friends at Kolesa based on existing spy photos.
Beefy would be an excellent word to describe the front fascia, which features an upright design and C-shaped headlights with L-shaped LED signature lighting. Horizontal chrome trim connects the headlights to the automaker’s badge, and the hood is flat, as most of us would expect from a pickup truck.
Imagined with Bronco Sport Badlands double-spoke wheels and optional aluminum wheels that look remarkably similar to steelies, as well as the CAD-rendered tailgate leaked by The Fast Lane in May 2020, the Maverick won’t hold a candle to the Ranger and F-150 in terms of capability. The reason? Well, a unibody will never come close to the payload and towing capacities of mid- and full-size pickups that feature ladder frames.
Because it’s made at the same facility where Ford assembles the Bronco Sport, you can imagine what kind of underpinnings the Maverick hides under the skin. It’s the C2 platform of the Escape, which offers up to 3,500 pounds (1,588 kilograms) of towing capacity with the 2.0-liter EcoBoost.
But Maverick customers may not be offered the 2.0-liter turbo as the base powerplant. The 1.5-liter EcoBoost three-cylinder turbo serves as the base engine of the Escape and Bronco Sport, and I have a feeling the Maverick will feature it as well because the base price is supposed to start at $20k.
Regardless of its most apparent limitations, the Maverick will sell like hotcakes because it appeals to a wide demographic. Firstly, there are those who believe the Ranger is too large for the urban jungle. And finally, the Maverick caters to people who would otherwise spend their money on the Escape.
Beefy would be an excellent word to describe the front fascia, which features an upright design and C-shaped headlights with L-shaped LED signature lighting. Horizontal chrome trim connects the headlights to the automaker’s badge, and the hood is flat, as most of us would expect from a pickup truck.
Imagined with Bronco Sport Badlands double-spoke wheels and optional aluminum wheels that look remarkably similar to steelies, as well as the CAD-rendered tailgate leaked by The Fast Lane in May 2020, the Maverick won’t hold a candle to the Ranger and F-150 in terms of capability. The reason? Well, a unibody will never come close to the payload and towing capacities of mid- and full-size pickups that feature ladder frames.
Because it’s made at the same facility where Ford assembles the Bronco Sport, you can imagine what kind of underpinnings the Maverick hides under the skin. It’s the C2 platform of the Escape, which offers up to 3,500 pounds (1,588 kilograms) of towing capacity with the 2.0-liter EcoBoost.
But Maverick customers may not be offered the 2.0-liter turbo as the base powerplant. The 1.5-liter EcoBoost three-cylinder turbo serves as the base engine of the Escape and Bronco Sport, and I have a feeling the Maverick will feature it as well because the base price is supposed to start at $20k.
Regardless of its most apparent limitations, the Maverick will sell like hotcakes because it appeals to a wide demographic. Firstly, there are those who believe the Ranger is too large for the urban jungle. And finally, the Maverick caters to people who would otherwise spend their money on the Escape.
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