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For sure - I wasn't aiming any of this specifically at you, even if I clicked the "quote" bottom from your last post. Mechanically, I'm rarely worried about vehicles today, and especially with hybrids having longer hybrid-component coverage. It's all the electronics that have me worried - they...

A lot of maintenance items are less about mileage, but more about general age, thermal cycles, etc, no? Similarly, some county vehicles may have as much wear at 50k miles as some 200k mile vehicles - low miles, but a lot of idle time and run time while not-up-to-temperature. Hours-on is a lot...

Spending 50+ minutes in traffic each day to travel 10 miles (then it clears up beyond that stretch), each direction, with a manual really is terrible. All to get through the bottleneck - bridge over the river. Manual is fine, but using it as your throttle in traffic is really bad. Never moving...

Yeah, what? Maintenance overall should be much lower on the hybrid over 10 years. Plus the nicer driving experience of driving in "L" mode can't have a price put on it. Well, it can, and to me that's slightly lower performance. Rarely touching the brake pedal is the main reason I wanted the...

I'm still breaking in my 2025, but so far the fuel economy is much worse than my 2023 fwd, similar build otherwise. Just weeks ago in my 2023, when it was cooler, I was getting about 30mpg morning, 65mpg afternoon in 25 degree lows, 40 degree highs, with 4.8 miles each direction. This would be...

This is exactly the biggest problem. I have a soil place a couple miles away, and getting 2-3 cubic yards of various mixes to put my trailer right around 3500lb causes severe wheel slippage when leaving their lot on a slight incline. The rest of the trip is downhill or flat. Of course...

It is ugly, but I don't see it when driving so I don't care much. You all can look at it instead of me ;)

It's possible they're talking about glare, rather than any usable light (for visibility to others). The widest beams I've ever seen were from projector headlights - especially HID with 3" or larger diameter projectors. Some headlights will light up 7 lanes of traffic (3 lanes next to you if...

Huh? Many projectors have a much wider useful beam than reflector lamps. Halogen projectors were never the greatest, but HID and LED projectors more often than not have some of the widest beams out there. Of course the width also traditionally comes with larger projector housings, so we'll see...

Yep they were great cars, and performed fine enough with the stick. I had a silver, which I later switched out for citrus. My last trip before I sold it was 85mpg on a 4-5 hour round trip between Seattle WA and Portland OR. It averaged 55mpg in my commutes, which was 9 miles/1 hour each way. I...

All these numbers sound silent in comparison to an old Honda, aluminum-chassis daily driver I had years ago. This was AFTER installing 130lb of MLV, butyl panel dampening, and decoupling foam between them, on the floors and halfway up the walls/doors... The acoustic treatments didn't change...

That requires a new platform. You'd be using up 100% of the payload to get that weight into the Maverick, or Escape. Maybe 2028 or something after the lightning has a few years on the market.

Mullinax contacted me today. Their Maverick dealer stock is all $10k over now ( area 51 lariat lux stock today, and a white lariat lux sold days ago). They've been removed from my list of dealers to buy from.

Mullinax Ford - Olympia, Washington They're at $10k over on dealer stock now. $2k would have been decent, per months ago, but $10k markup on a maverick is insane. I'd rather buy a used F150, drive it for a year, and then resell - I'd still come out ahead financially, even with some repairs.

61.5 miles over 50 minutes is 74mph? Is that correct? Bottom left of dash validates this. That looks like excellent fuel economy. Front wheel or all wheel drive? I'd love to see one of these go cross country at a static speed - 70mph or so with full tanks. If 40mph is attainable at 70mph steady...

Great video - that helps explain it. A photo would be better for future reference within the thread/forum searches, but the cutoff looks good. Not sure about the width, but that doesn't bother me much as it does to some.

Can someone post a photo of the Maverick headlights shining against a wall (garage door), preferably 30-50 feet away and with camera exposure settings set to around -1 stop (phones can so this also - tap to focus, then slide the popup slider down a bit to darken the photo). High beam would also...

A before and after against a wall, with static camera exposure settings, would be far more helpful for comparison. A darker exposure would also help not blow out the camera, so the beam quality can be compared - light shining up into the sky is useless. This is important with running/brake...

Yeah, that TFL video seemed really far off and it was not only around the first time I viewed the channel, it also wound up to be about my last. Very poor testing methods and everything seems heavily opinionated, if not them getting a kickback from manufacturers. It's also not difficult for...