Push-button start is in the Escape, not much cost to add it, heck the Kia Rio get push-button start standard.
Escape is a significantly more expensive vehicle (starts at $28k for the Hybrid) than the Maverick. Those extra options do add up
Every component has a cost. Lets say Pushbutton start adds $150 to each vehicle, that puts it over the 20k base cost they were targeting, so it gets cut. I work in manufacturing, this is how things work out all the time.
Then make it standard on the XLT and above.
You might have ordered a car before many, no sure what this has to do with the thread!! Just an FYI, right now I'm on my 12th ordered car, 9 BMWs, 2 MB, and a Ford Maverick. Been down this road too many times, like you said, just chill.
Nail on the head!!
Yep. Real jack and spare are day 1 items.
Why then did they name it "Maverick?" About half the boomers here drove one at one time or another.
Don't forget the curtains lol. I was shopping hrv's right before the mav was announced. Ended up hating them. The body shape had to change just enough to lose all the storage magic. They just aren't the same even though I probably would have ended up with oneI hear ya, but the Maverick only works because of that starting price point. The days of getting 'real value' like my Honda Fit are gone. Your Sirus Radio and stand alone Cruise control are not even on my radar.
Your argument is spending $28k, for a Maverick, surely you jest. You are going for it because of the gas mileage. Let's try to understand something here, it's not a truck in the true sense of the word, it's a 'runabout with utility'.
That just so happens to have decent horsepower and torque while getting gas mileage that even that dog Eco Sport from India with a 3 banger turbo could not get close to. Eco, please, total embarrassment. I would have been ashamed to drive that thing with that badge on it.
The Big three got greedy and lazy over the years, throwing crap in the market place to see what sticks. You see that laziness in even the Maverick's name. Absolutely no fore thought.
But it is what it is, if I buy one it sure as hell won't be for the name. There is simply nothing out there that can match my Honda's utility while still being affordable.
The only thing I lack is ground clearance. And it does bug me. The Maverick is a beast at over 8 inches in front wheel drive. And I got ideas about it's utility.
My fear is by the time I can get into one the younger gens out here will have gotten it so jacked up in price from their tow hooks, fog lights and the Howard Stern Sirus Radio it will become out of reach.
It most likely would be my last vehicle and I would very much like it to be new and not used.
As you get older most discover the gimmicks don't make up for utility and practicality.
$28k, for $22K i get me a Honda HR-V that has my Fit's utility cause it's built off the same platform.
What is that utility you ask, 'magic seats' that in a pitch I can actually stick a portable toilet inside and take a dump in privacy as once I do the magic with the seats gives me 4 feet of head room inside. 52 cubic feet of storage inside with flat folding seats, you only get 33 in the bed of the Maverick.
$16,100 brand new. And they were still that starting price last year when production ended.
(them days are long gone)
oh yeah that lack of power combined with the cvt. oofff. The lack of magic seats and flat interior storage is a blow but I'm ready to move to something with a bit more ease of access and miss a bed. But I'll be keeping my fit since I have the garage space for a spare vehicle. The excuse I'm using is because of some rust starting making it not worth much to sell anyway. But really I just don't want to see it go lol. One of the big selling points of the mav to me is how relatively low tech it is. Just feels honest like my Fit does. Also hit's the nostalgia button reminding me of my first vehicle (05 colorado)
