Spied: 2025 Maverick Refresh Prototypes Reveal Additional TWO New Grille Designs [UPDATED]

[Dad]

Not a big fan of the trend to more aggressive grilles shown on so many newer vehicles. What are these designers so angry about? Go back 5 or so years and cars seemed "happier".

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[wax87]

Still no key pad, boo

 

[thev8man]

UPDATE:
Just after showing another new grille design for the facelifted 2025 Ford Maverick, we caught yet another (third) new face. This third new grille design looks closer to the current Maverick grille, with a horizontal crossbar encompassing the Ford oval. The new face shows off the new headlight design, first revealed on a completely undisguised Maverick test vehicle earlier this week.

Likely Shows the New Maverick XL Grille
We think this new grille may represent the base XL Maverick grille, for two reasons: 1) The headlights look like they may be more simplified, without the prominent LED signatures, and more halogen overtones, and 2) This prototype’s side mirror doesn’t have the new camera that’s in place on the higher-end Lariat model spied earlier. It would seem that a mroe entry-lvel version may still be available without the upgraded safety and possible autonomous features that appear to be coming for the updated trucks.


ORIGINAL POST:
We just caught another one of the 2025 Ford Maverick’s new grille designs, thanks to a prototype that has shed its front-end camouflage.

Like the completely undisguised prototype we caught earlier this week, this Maverick test truck is running on 19-inch wheels, but NOT the dished turbofan design. Instead, the truck in these latest shots is wearing the original 19-inch wheel design from the initial phases of testing.

This Maverick prototype showcases the new headlight design from the our earlier shots, but the new grille is a big departure from the vertically-slatted grille caught on the earlier Lariat prototype that was caught, undisguised, in blue. Instead, this new grille looks like a more traditional pickup grille treatment, with an aggressive, woven mesh design. We’re not sure exactly what trim this model represents. It could be and XLT, but we’ll have to wait for more camo to be discarded to know for sure.

Grille #2

Grille #3

Booyah
Thank God.
Looks better but is it better than the current one / ones?

 

[Fryck]

Grill is better! Those pictures indicate the XLT with the more "traditional" wheels and without so much paint matching going on. The mirrors are not paint matched either. This Maverick looks much better in my opinion. The grill, the wheels, the color. Still the front end is questionable but the black color seems to hide the odd lines and cutoffs. The new headlights are apparently supposed to look like the "HORNS" that a Maverick (the animal) has.

A maverick is a yearling, they don't have horns like that. Not exactly sure where that comparison came from.

 

[WNYEscapee]

While that's much better than the last postings, they could have done better by using the headlamp design of the new F150 as an influential starting point.
It's a sad trend in automotive design where updates often look like: "Well, we had to do something to let the neighbors know you didn't buy used...."

 

[Montana]

Not a big fan of the trend to more aggressive grilles shown on so many newer vehicles. What are these designers so angry about? Go back 5 or so years and cars seemed "happier".

Agreed. Seems like they are just getting bigger and bigger. In contrast, the Mustang went the opposite way and now it looks squinty.

 

[eRock92]

So it looks like my theory on the "Lobo" Maverick is correct: the protrusions between the headlights and grill are based off the protrusions we see in the Gen-6 Ranger. My only critique is that the feature looks fine on a Ranger but seems a bit odd on the Maverick's smaller front end. Like others said, maybe Ford should have based the refresh off the updated F-150. We'll see how it really looks when the refreshed Mav is fully unveiled.

 

[710-oil-614]

Ford is almost there....

Now just remove that goofy shit on the headlights!!

 

[Montana]

So it looks like my theory on the "Lobo" Maverick is correct: the protrusions between the headlights and grill are based off the protrusions we see in the Gen-6 Ranger. My only critique is that the feature looks fine on a Ranger but seems a bit odd on the Maverick's smaller front end. Like others said, maybe Ford should have based the refresh off the updated F-150. We'll see how it really looks when the refreshed Mav is fully unveiled.

It's totally different. The Ranger has a U shape to it, similar to current gen Mavericks and the new Lobo/ST has a tear drop shape.

 

[badMotorist]

I'm leaning toward the grilles not being hybrid versus EB, but trim based. Maybe one is for XL and the other for XLT/Lariat or XL/XLT versus Lariat.

Ford is almost there....

Now just remove that goofy shit on the headlights!!

I think the fangs are the actual headlight shape so nothing to remove per-say.

 

[NextTruck]

I would say not better looking, just different.

 

[Scupking]

So it looks like my theory on the "Lobo" Maverick is correct: the protrusions between the headlights and grill are based off the protrusions we see in the Gen-6 Ranger. My only critique is that the feature looks fine on a Ranger but seems a bit odd on the Maverick's smaller front end. Like others said, maybe Ford should have based the refresh off the updated F-150. We'll see how it really looks when the refreshed Mav is fully unveiled.

The new Ranger looks great! Problem with the new Maverick is that the part that goes into the headlights are bigger than the ones one the Ranger.

 

[710-oil-614]

I'm leaning toward the grilles not being hybrid versus EB, but trim based. Maybe one is for XL and the other for XLT/Lariat or XL/XLT versus Lariat.

I think the fangs are the actual headlight shape so nothing to remove per-say.

Right. But whatever tacky-ass, add on, bumper cover crap this is......just go back to how it was before:

 

[cavemold]

Still no key pad, boo

The ford app and I have the keypad haven’t used it once lol

 

[EONR24]

A maverick is a yearling, they don't have horns like that. Not exactly sure where that comparison came from.

its a cow with horns dude come on. google maverick and see what comes up... It's not rocket science. a Maverick can be a wild horse or a wild cow...

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