The new Light Blue 2026 Maverick color is out!

[Blue_Max]

While I'm completely indifferent on the color choice, Ford only offers a few color options and this seems a weird one to use. Unless Ford has a lot of leftover blue and white and is simply looking for a reason to use it up.

That said, I've always called this color "leftover paint" and my wife and daughter love it. The shade changing to match whatever leftover paint they had the year before.

I call it that because that looks very similar to the color that resulted from a Dirty Jobs episode where Mike Rowe mixed a bunch of leftover paint together.

They change the color options every year, and every year it seems they have one-year-only colors (often at extra cost). This is a cheap way to generate some sort of interest, without bothering to create any specific parts to go along with the color.

Ford has all kinds of weird colors that are used for fleet vehicles. They starting dipping into them for retail vehicles with the Grabber colors of the first muscle era.

I'm sure some people think the current orange that is offered is a weird choice, too.

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[MLA62563]

Love it. My first car was a '72 Maverick in that exact color. If it had been available when I ordered my new Maverick, I would have been sorely tempted to go for it out of pure nostalgia.

 

[Pointyears]

I miss the days when you could buy a vehicle in a lot of different colors. Those were the days when they'd offer colors that people LOVED or HATED. Today almost every color is "safe" where few love or few hate. I like them taking a chance on good color and "controversial" colors from the past. I love the eruption green. I would definitely have chosen that color if we had one in stock. Instead I ended up with Oxford white. A "safe" color that I don't dislike. But does not excite me in any way. Thankfully the (overpriced )Black Appearance Package takes away the FLEET truck vibe

I guess you

Back then my dad had a fleet of E-150 vans. That blue, along with banana and key lime were safety colors, and cost less to commercially insure. Not sure now, maybe pay a premium for the blinding bright color

…and it looks so good! I remember the Dirty Jobs episode. I also believe @Blue_Max won’t be changing his name to @BabyBlueMax any time soon.

"It's all over now, baby blue...."

 

[Huchipapa]

Not a fan of bright "look at me" colors, but YMMV....

 

[TonyP19]

I always liked that color.

 

[MaverickDragon]

I ran across this study on car colors and accidents.
It appears that the light blue offering is on the safe side of the color spectrum, as it's fairly close to "traffic safety white"...

 

[Rparry]

Beats another shade of gray.

Yeah, not sure why there are so many Grey's? Up here in the NorthWest grey cars disappear for over half of the year. Grey car, grey road, grey sky! That's why we have daytime running lights here as cars are difficult to see during winter and poor weather.

Not sure Robin's Egg Blue is my favourite blue as there are other blues I like better.

BP

 

[BigOil]

OMG
Our fleet cars in my first job back in 1984 was Ford Fairmont in the same blue color. Use often it was at a Bomb plant...yea the big one... FAIRMONT DEF NOT A BETTER FORD IDEA ugh

Light blue 4-cylinder automatics with no options no AC other than an aftermarket emergency one-way radio--in case the reactors did not scram and puked Plutonium everywhere I guess sombody sent a "duck and cover" radio message...

Decals that said "Official Use - United States Department of Energy". That's it.

We were Contractors tho... Typical guuberment fashion - for unpaved rough roads - Fairmont had virtual all-wheel-drive, virtual lift, jump curbs and ruts unique trash carrying capabilities in the rear seat area ??? We needed pick up trucks and the guuberment couldn't get those…

I wish we had the blue Mavericks of today LOL. But my God that blue color is retro and definitely not my flavor but to each his own.

 

[FloridaSon]

That Mav is begging for the two-tone paint scheme shown here. Would be badass.

If they offered the two tone scheme, I’d take one!

 

[Tbone289]

Not sure Robin's Egg Blue is my favourite blue as there are other blues I like better.

If there are other blues that you like better, then I'm sure Robin's Egg Blue is not your favorite.

 

[imboden013]

OMG
Our fleet cars in my first job back in 1984 was Ford Fairmont in the same blue color. Use often it was at a Bomb plant...yea the big one... FAIRMONT DEF NOT A BETTER FORD IDEA ugh

Light blue 4-cylinder automatics with no options no AC other than an aftermarket emergency one-way radio--in case the reactors did not scram and puked Plutonium everywhere I guess sombody sent a "duck and cover" radio message...

Decals that said "Official Use - United States Department of Energy". That's it.

We were Contractors tho... Typical guuberment fashion - for unpaved rough roads - Fairmont had virtual all-wheel-drive, virtual lift, jump curbs and ruts unique trash carrying capabilities in the rear seat area ??? We needed pick up trucks and the guuberment couldn't get those…

I wish we had the blue Mavericks of today LOL. But my God that blue color is retro and definitely not my flavor but to each his own.

nice picture takes me back some years. I’d forgotten Ford made a Fairmont wagon. I owned a couple sedans. One was a deep red 5.0 V8 the other a 6 cylinder dark blue. Pretty decent cars for the price.

 

[Darryl]

nice picture takes me back some years. I’d forgotten Ford made a Fairmont wagon. I owned a couple sedans. One was a deep red 5.0 V8 the other a 6 cylinder dark blue. Pretty decent cars for the price.

They were basically bulletproof. Not remarkable as far as handling and acceleration. But they just ran. The 2.3 /140, 3.3/200, 5.0/302, and even the much maligned 4.2/255 were rock solid engines.

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

If there are other blues that you like better, then I'm sure Robin's Egg Blue is not your favorite.

Yesterday I did see a full size Bronco and Bronco Sport in Robins Egg Blue.

 

[Kidney Man]

Better than White.

 

[SLingbarT]

OMG
Our fleet cars in my first job back in 1984 was Ford Fairmont in the same blue color. Use often it was at a Bomb plant...yea the big one... FAIRMONT DEF NOT A BETTER FORD IDEA ugh

Light blue 4-cylinder automatics with no options no AC other than an aftermarket emergency one-way radio--in case the reactors did not scram and puked Plutonium everywhere I guess sombody sent a "duck and cover" radio message...

Decals that said "Official Use - United States Department of Energy". That's it.

We were Contractors tho... Typical guuberment fashion - for unpaved rough roads - Fairmont had virtual all-wheel-drive, virtual lift, jump curbs and ruts unique trash carrying capabilities in the rear seat area ??? We needed pick up trucks and the guuberment couldn't get those…

I wish we had the blue Mavericks of today LOL. But my God that blue color is retro and definitely not my flavor but to each his own.

I have said this many of times, The Maverick interior is just like that of a '79 Fairmont (cheaply made), my girlfriends mom had one, what a POS.

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