My Continental has the radar stuff mounted in the lower valence and offset to one side, they just aim the sensor a little differently to suit the location on the vehicle. And they're behind some pretty tough black plastic too, tougher than the paint around it... Shockingly effective in nasty winter conditions to boot. The engineers know what they're doing... haha
Exactly. With physical controls, I can reach down and adjust the fan or temp without taking my eyes off the road. Not so with a gd touch-screen+menus.
I wish they would put the drive mode where the Lane keep button is, on the turn signal stalk. I never use lane keep.I spy extra steering wheel buttons with red text. Are they moving the drive mode selector? Or is it something else?
I was thinking maybe that's part of the camouflage, hard to tell
Because you can physically feel a knob, learn its exact placement on the dash with a little time and thus locate & operate it with just a glance. Try that on a screen .
It does look like the front end leans back a little. Not a fan of that - I like my truck to look like a truck.
All I want is the bigger screen! I like the rest of my Maverick the way it is appearance-wise.We just got our first look at a revealing new Maverick Lobo performance street truck prototype showing off a completely new grille design with a clean vertical slat arrangement in addition to a new infotainment screen interior upgrade.
All New Grille Design Finally Shows Itself
These shots not only show us what promises to be a new Maverick trim, it gives us our first uncovered look at its new grille design—our first such look at one of the updated Maverick prototypes. With the camo mesh removed from the grille-opening, we see a completely new take on the face of the Maverick. From this test truck, it appears that the new street truck will have the Ford oval floating amid a sea vertical grille slats that bend forward at the bottom, reaching out to its revised front bumper. It’s a complete departure from anything currently available in the Maverick lineup.
We know this is the new street truck trim- rumored to be called Lobo, based on Ford trademark filings—thanks to its new, larger wheel-and-tire package. Instead of the 18-inch wheels that top the current Maverick range, this new model gets a chunky new design, sized at 19-inches—wrapped by 225/55R19 Goodyear Wrangler Territory HT tires. Whether this street truck—which could also conceivably get an ST designation—gets more power, is currently unknown.
13.2-inch Infotainment Screen
We also have the only look at the key element of the Maverick’s revised interior design: It’s new-and-improved infotainment screen. It looks like the Maverick will be getting the same screen upgrade that’s coming on the similarly facelifted Bronco Sport—the 13.2-inch landscape-oriented screen that’s also found in the base Mustang and the upper-level trims of the Ford Escape. It’s a big step up from the humble eight-inch screen that currently resides in all Mavericks—regardless of the trim level.
The Maverick looks slated to get a thorough going-over, in order to keep it atop the compact pickup market. Currently the Hyundai Santa Cruz is its only competition, but there are rumblings that Toyota has eyes on the burgeoning segment—with evidence of benchmark tests of the Ford and Hyundai. With that in mind, Ford is smart to keep the hammer down to keep a strong hold on the top spot.
You don't need it, but if it's just filling that little cubby hole to the right then I would be okay with it. It's nice to have for Google maps, especially once across the age of 50
