2025 Hybrid AWD Maverick spied photos confirmation! 📸

[MavDan]

Still not diggin the front end. Looks ridiculous. I'm probably cashing out of my Maverick anyway.

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[Zeegull]

Awww maaaan. I'd love to put in an order for one but interest rates are garbage. My mint AWD Lariat with 13k miles would be a great trade in but I'd be doing away with a 2.9 percent loan rate.

 

[burger_time]

Where do I get one of those big red buttons to put on my dash? And what does it do?

 

[supertiger]

I think that's spot on.

I'm really curious to see what Hyundai does in two or three years, when the full SC redesign comes. They are usually very good at swiftly correcting their market missteps. The 2025 Santa Cruz toned down a lot of the styling "mistakes" they made (that's in our opinion, not the opinion of the 85,000 people so far who chose the SC over the Maverick).

What really puzzles me is why Hyundai hasn't offered any of the appealing hybrid or BEV drivetrains they have in their inventory on the SC. It's a head scratcher. Makes one think there must be either a cost challenge or an engineering challenge there.

Hyundai and Kia don't manufacture hybrids in the US. The Tuscon Hybrid and Sportage are imports. They can't import Santa Cruz's due to the Chicken Tax. I guess the cost of shipping over the components and gluing them together in Alabama is not commercially viable for them.

Hyundai Transys recently built a new independent plant in the US to supply Jeep and VW with 8spd FWD transmissions. I don't genuinely know why they don't import or build the hybrid transmissions here.

I believe the Dual-Clutch transmission is still imported from Korea while the 8 Spd FWD and CVT are made at co-located Kia facilities in Monterey and West Point.

 

[CurtisB]

Where do I get one of those big red buttons to put on my dash? And what does it do?

Flux Capacitor start button.............what else?

 

[MavHarbin]

I added ACC to my XL.
Just need someone to show us how to add AWD

I assumed you did this by DIY. Do you know if there is a place that offers this as service (adding acc to XL) with reasinable fee?

 

[inline_five]

I assumed you did this by DIY. Do you know if there is a place that offers this as service (adding acc to XL) with reasinable fee?

It's in the DIY sub, probably the first post in it.

 

[Grabber Rick]

Front end still looks like shit.

Don't like black painted trim on the bumper and around the headlights. Looks like they put a new part on it without painting it.

 

[jfg6869]

Really?

Yes really....you are a fool to think it's going to look like a prototype.

 

[RadioDoc]

I'm not loving what's going on with that front bumper coming up so high, and the whole 2-tone thing, but maybe that's just some weirdness from the testing. That said, I might be interested in trading up my Hybrid because Hybrid AWD is very appealing.

 

[710-oil-614]

Don't like black painted trim on the bumper and around the headlights. Looks like they put a new part on it without painting it.

In every iteration but especially this one.

i mean it really looks like they had 10 minutes before a deadline to present their "refresh" and someone freaked out and tacked an extra bumper cover on it and said, "there we go!"

 

[Grabber Rick]

My 2¢

If it was body colored it would look way better. Looks cheap like they replaced the bumper cover without painting it.

 

[Transplant]

It seems very likely the black front bumper is tacked on there and must have been on a black truck at some point. There's 100% no way they intend to put a black bumper on any other colour truck and just leave the colour change at the body lines, that looks awful.

The all blue front end on the blue truck is definitely close to what they will end up with, it's just unfortunate the colour matched version looks even worse than the slapped on black one.

Wouldn't stop me from buying a hybrid AWD if it had the 4K tow, but not with interest rates and prices the way they are, I'll keep putting miles on my '22 for now.

 

[Automate]

Plug in doesn't make much sense over the regular hybrid. It will cost a lot more, weigh more, and take decades to recoup the cost of the upgrade if not more.

But the US government gives up to a $7500 tax credit on PHEV. So it may not cost any extra.

 

[PNWMaverick]

Yeah, between the MSRP increase since 2021 and interest increase from 0%, the same config today would cost me $5-6000 more, and that's assuming I keep the same 36 month loan.

Ouch.

A '24 model year configured exactly like my '22 model year is $8,000 more than what I paid. The '25 AWD hybrid is easily going to be about $10,000 more.

I wonder if the 2025 HYBRID AWD will cost $35k lol probably

The XLT hybrid starts at ~$28,000, I would estimate another $2,000 for AWD as a starting prices.

But the US government gives up to a $7500 tax credit on PHEV. So it may not cost any extra.

The tax credit is based off battery size, the Maverick gets a VERY small tax credit.

Also, the tax credit doesn't do you any good unless you are above the Standard Deduction. The vast majority of people are not above the Standard Deduction. In other words, you effectively get $0.

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