Inside The 2022 Ford Maverick: Powertrain Specs, Cargo Storage Options, Safety Features & More
After the F-150 Lightning reveal made headlines in May 2021, Ford is keeping their foot on the gas (figurately anyway) with the launch of the Maverick. As one of the first full-hybrid pickups in the United States, the 2022 Ford Maverick offers sedan levels of fuel efficiency with decent payload and towing capacity.
“Maverick challenges the status quo and the stereotypes of what a pickup truck can be,” said Todd Eckert, Ford truck group marketing manager. “We believe it will be compelling to a lot of people who never before considered a truck.”
2022 Ford Maverick vs. Other Trucks
The 2022 Ford Maverick is different when compared to the Ranger or other compact trucks. One crucial distinction is the Maverick’s unibody design versus a body-on-frame construction. Full-size trucks rely on their body-on-frame design to maximize towing and payload, as do other compact trucks like the Ranger and Colorado. Interesting enough, the Honda Ridgeline is a unibody, so the Maverick is similar in this way.
In a general sense, body-on-frame trucks will have a higher towing and payload capacity. By contrast, a unibody truck like the Maverick may (usually) provide a more comfortable ride and better gas mileage. Although like its older brother, the F-150, the Maverick saw its fair share of Ford’s infamous torture testing.
“Our engineers were unrelenting, putting it through a battery of vicious on-road, off-road, environmental, and simulat...
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