Is the Mav the best vehicle and value you have ever owned - hybrid only responses.

[bishop0114]

2023, xlt. It is a nice truck and tweaking it with Forscan, adds some nice features. Aside from the lack of keyless entry and keyless start, the features are great. Mileage is great too. Quality is a big problem though. 14k miles, garage kept and only in the rain a dozen times and it is rusting. Bumping the paink chips it down to the primer. It seems to have intermittent transmission and breaking issues, so I dont know if thst is a precurser to the transmission issues people talk about and have had it in the shop 6 times for the battery drain issue. I have asked a out the paint and rust and was "read a ststement" from Ford.... I said, it sounds like Ford has had a lot of complaints and are trying to make it past the warrenty and the dealership agreed. Overall it is a good truck but clearly wont last and for thst, not worth $30k+

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[zorki1c]

So far I consider my Maverick the best car I’ve ever owned. Second would be my ‘67 VW Beetle — the last year before they stretched the engine too much. Indestructible even if the heater was crappy. Worst. ‘72 ElCamino with the 307 ci engine tied with any vehicle with the ford 360 ci engine

 

[JMJB]

2 of my favorite vehicles from half a century ago ....
Honda SuperSport , best looking pipes ever made , and my girlfriend's new Ford Pinto in the background ....
She's now been my wife all these years...

But yes , I'm quite pleased with my Maverick , next month will be three years ...how time flies ....

 

[Red Eyes - Wide Shut]

2023, xlt. It is a nice truck and tweaking it with Forscan, adds some nice features. Aside from the lack of keyless entry and keyless start, the features are great. Mileage is great too. Quality is a big problem though. 14k miles, garage kept and only in the rain a dozen times and it is rusting. Bumping the paink chips it down to the primer. It seems to have intermittent transmission and breaking issues, so I dont know if thst is a precurser to the transmission issues people talk about and have had it in the shop 6 times for the battery drain issue. I have asked a out the paint and rust and was "read a ststement" from Ford.... I said, it sounds like Ford has had a lot of complaints and are trying to make it past the warrenty and the dealership agreed. Overall it is a good truck but clearly wont last and for thst, not worth $30k+

What transmission issues are you talking about?

 

[dochawk]

I can put 4 adults and 4 golf bags in the back and over 41 mpg. Who can ask for more than that

Wait, you can do that?

I need to take up golf if I can use the maverick as a cart!

Read the fine print and usually the seat section is the only real leather if there is any at all. Most are PLEATHER material.

When we were dating, I made a comment about "genuine naugahyde," and she had no idea what I was talking about.

So, thinking quickly, I went on about the great herds of naugas in Brazil, and how they were desirable as a leather substitute, as they were only about a footlong, and so they had a much higher surface to volume ratio, making them much less expensive than cows to raise for the same amount of material.

And she just kept lapping it up, until I could no longer keep a straight face.


Oddly, she married me.

After a couple of weeks I bought a 73 Vega with 148k on it for $150 so she could drive the new car.

I bought $400 cars in college to get through, they often lasted a year or more. (this was the mid 80s)

Another guy in our department bought $100 cars, and tended to leave a trail of parts and oil down the highway . . . (he claimed a quarter mile of them one morning when he finally arrived)

Anyway, wasn't the Vega engine the one that was basically one side of a v8?

 

[sn00pyguy]

This is my 4th pickup truck and the best overall. the other trucks were an 80's Datsun pickup, a 2004 Dakoto, and a 2010 Ranger, all good Trucks. But the 2022 Maverick blows them all away with the 41 mpg in the summer. In the winter, the mileage lowers to about 35 mpg (cold Northern Ohio winters). The features on Lariat also make it a very nice car. Keyless entry, electric everything, safety features. I know the newer models have AWD, but I don't do any field-streaming and the Front wheel drive handles the snow in the suburbs fine.

 

[Escapologist]

Update to my last comment. Took delivery a couple of weeks back and put a few hundred miles on it... It's fkn nice.

Not "beating it like it owes me money" of course, or babying it, trying to run in the ICE so I'm in normal mode mostly and not trying to drive particularly economically, but some trips it's still throwing me numbers like "How is this possible in a vehicle as roomy as this??". One trip, coming to a big hill on highway, there was a line of semis, and I got the impression the tailender was closing up and gonna pop out and I'd end up slogging uphill behind a rolling roadblock, so I "sent it" to scoot past before we got to that point and was close to 100mph when I looked at the speedo, oh shit, that's a bit excessive. This was uphill, so yeah IDK where complaints about lack of power come from. In case anyone needs to know, it doesn't "feel" like you're going that speed, like worryingly squirrely if you had a jeep, or like every nut and bolt was gonna rattle off in an econobox. Took it like a large luxury sedan that might be in black car service.

Anyway, so far so awesome, gotta go make some memories in it to equal how the old faithfuls look through nostalgia's rose colored glasses.

 

[Suzukiridr14]

Also never had the monthly notices for a recall I bet!

 

[Mavl-ous]

When I was growing up (in the 70s), my best friend's parents had a 72 Nova. Even then they referred to the "floating action steering." As we kids were always in the back seat, we couldn't really tell. They also had a 71 Toyota Corolla (or maybe Corona), and sold it with over 300,000 miles on it!

 

[Suzukiridr14]

I bought my first new car in 1960. (chevy Impala 348, 4 speed posi) since them maybe 20 cars new, and many used. It's hard to beat the Hondas, and Toyotas, but to be fair, they didn't have all the electronic that todays cars have, therefore, less things to go wrong. Todays cars, exspecially high end models Benz, BMW etc, out of warranty, are a nightmare to keep running. The Maverick seems to be the best bang for the buck for people like us who want something nice that we can afford. With a Granger ESP, I hope to keep mine for another 5 years. I should be 90, and not driving anymore!

 

[Escapologist]

I drove in Ohio for 25 years with fwd or rwd only. Many snows over 8". I drive to work during the blizzard of 78 in a 73 Nova with snow higher than the bumper. When I moved to Virginia everyone said I needed to get rid of my rwd Ranger and get a 4x4 in case it snowed. I just laughed at them.

Early oughts, I had to bomb around in a 92 Tempo, not the AWD, FWD, 4 banger HSFC. So middle of winter, comes a storm, and shit must be done, so I am out in it. It is practically "plowing" the road at first, with about 7 or 8" down, and I'm seeing the gas gauge go down visibly because it's getting about 18mpg doing this. Keeps coming down, the winds are drifting it in, got some fingers of drift about 3ft, and I'm having them break over the hood. I'm thinking I'm gonna need a periscope if this keeps up, but they never got higher than the scuttle...

Had to go on some back streets that were kinda "filled in" though with 2ft of firmer stuff, and it's porpoisng on that, like building up a wedge, climbing over it, and dropping down again, with the wheels spinning on top so going like RRRrrrrRRRrrrRRRrrrRRR down the road, trying to keep just enough momentum on to keep going without it being too much to stop... though it's practically "One pedal" because let off the gas and the snow will stop you fairly soon.... So, do the necessary and the plows had got out, leaving a lot of sidestreets cut off with 3ft or so packed windrows/ridges. And those you gotta hit hard enough to go through, while not going hard enough to actually put daylight under your wheels.

I am out in this all day in the Tempo, using like half a tank of gas for what usually takes 1/8 to 1/4, and kicking back, get on the net and go on some forums that were around then. On one of them, I find "Super bad storm here in Kentucky guys, I couldn't even get the Jeep out of the driveway.." and there's a picture, Jeep Liberty, and the snow is only as high as the sidewalls on his tires... holy fuck dude, why do you own that thing??? I tried to enquire as to what particularly the problem was and he was like "some is almost as high as the bottom of the bumper" ahh man, such a temptation to be rude.

 

[Pete Sheppard]

Early oughts, I had to bomb around in a 92 Tempo, not the AWD, FWD, 4 banger HSFC. So middle of winter, comes a storm, and shit must be done, so I am out in it. It is practically "plowing" the road at first, with about 7 or 8" down, and I'm seeing the gas gauge go down visibly because it's getting about 18mpg doing this. Keeps coming down, the winds are drifting it in, got some fingers of drift about 3ft, and I'm having them break over the hood. I'm thinking I'm gonna need a periscope if this keeps up, but they never got higher than the scuttle...

Had to go on some back streets that were kinda "filled in" though with 2ft of firmer stuff, and it's porpoisng on that, like building up a wedge, climbing over it, and dropping down again, with the wheels spinning on top so going like RRRrrrrRRRrrrRRRrrrRRR down the road, trying to keep just enough momentum on to keep going without it being too much to stop... though it's practically "One pedal" because let off the gas and the snow will stop you fairly soon.... So, do the necessary and the plows had got out, leaving a lot of sidestreets cut off with 3ft or so packed windrows/ridges. And those you gotta hit hard enough to go through, while not going hard enough to actually put daylight under your wheels.

I am out in this all day in the Tempo, using like half a tank of gas for what usually takes 1/8 to 1/4, and kicking back, get on the net and go on some forums that were around then. On one of them, I find "Super bad storm here in Kentucky guys, I couldn't even get the Jeep out of the driveway.." and there's a picture, Jeep Liberty, and the snow is only as high as the sidewalls on his tires... holy fuck dude, why do you own that thing??? I tried to enquire as to what particularly the problem was and he was like "some is almost as high as the bottom of the bumper" ahh man, such a temptation to be rude.

Imagine, though, the trouble that Liberty driver could have gotten into if he had tried to drive...there's only one way to learn, but it can be scary easy to get in over one's head.

 

[Darryl]

Update to my last comment. Took delivery a couple of weeks back and put a few hundred miles on it... It's fkn nice.

Not "beating it like it owes me money" of course, or babying it, trying to run in the ICE so I'm in normal mode mostly and not trying to drive particularly economically, but some trips it's still throwing me numbers like "How is this possible in a vehicle as roomy as this??". One trip, coming to a big hill on highway, there was a line of semis, and I got the impression the tailender was closing up and gonna pop out and I'd end up slogging uphill behind a rolling roadblock, so I "sent it" to scoot past before we got to that point and was close to 100mph when I looked at the speedo, oh shit, that's a bit excessive. This was uphill, so yeah IDK where complaints about lack of power come from. In case anyone needs to know, it doesn't "feel" like you're going that speed, like worryingly squirrely if you had a jeep, or like every nut and bolt was gonna rattle off in an econobox. Took it like a large luxury sedan that might be in black car service.

Anyway, so far so awesome, gotta go make some memories in it to equal how the old faithfuls look through nostalgia's rose colored glasses.

I'm in your camp. No. It's not a hot rod. But I can't see anyone honestly complaining about power. Since it's a E-CVT, you don't get the FEELING of other vehicles, so you don't realize how quickly it's accelerating. It's just steady acceleration. And although it's no Crown Vic, you'll still find yourself in "Super Speeder" traffic ticket category without realizing it. If I'm on the open road, I set the cruise control to keep from going an ungodly speed. I don't get the " I'll go 90 but I don't like it" feeling I get in some compact cars. Or even my old 4 cylinder 1996 ranger. Can you tell that they cut some corners for cost savings, yes. But not in the way it rides and handles in anywhere near normal driving.

 

[dochawk]

When I was growing up (in the 70s), my best friend's parents had a 72 Nova. Even then they referred to the "floating action steering."

It took me a couple of weeks to figure out what was so familiar about the drive on the '72 Impala 400 I bought in college.

eventually I figured it out: the slight delay in turning the wheel in a GM of that era and the car turning was reminiscent of a friend's father's yacht that I'd driven!

And those you gotta hit hard enough to go through, while not going hard enough to actually put daylight under your wheels.

In an old rural town I lived in in western PA, where the block predated automobiles,I would get out of the insanely steep driveway in the winter by taking a running start, pulling off the pedal just before I hit the ice, coasting, and then gunning the engine to kick the rear end left when time came. This would put both my Crown Victoria and later my wife's van close enough to pointing right that I could go on without back & forth maneuvering.

 

[Escapologist]

I'm in your camp. No. It's not a hot rod. But I can't see anyone honestly complaining about power. Since it's a E-CVT, you don't get the FEELING of other vehicles, so you don't realize how quickly it's accelerating. It's just steady acceleration. And although it's no Crown Vic, you'll still find yourself in "Super Speeder" traffic ticket category without realizing it. If I'm on the open road, I set the cruise control to keep from going an ungodly speed. I don't get the " I'll go 90 but I don't like it" feeling I get in some compact cars. Or even my old 4 cylinder 1996 ranger. Can you tell that they cut some corners for cost savings, yes. But not in the way it rides and handles in anywhere near normal driving.

Yeah it seems what "butt dynos" actually measure are a sharp torque peak. The amount of butt dyno feelgood seems more related to the lack of torque either side of same rather than the actual height.

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