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Vehicle: 2022 Maverick, 2.0, Lariat, 360, 4k tow, with a Truxedo soft roll up bed cover.
Disclaimer: I am not a technician, car aficionado, or an expert on all the nuances of a driving machine. I'm just a driver who enjoys driving, and a nice vehicle.
That aside, my wife and I recently completed a 4000+ mile road trip from Phoenix, AZ to mid Michigan in our new Maverick. It was not a "pleasure" ride, but to attend a memorial service or a relative who had passed away. So it was an "out and back" with no side trips or excursions. It was mostly on Interstate highways or 4-lane highways. On the freeways the adaptive cruise was usually set at a constant 73 MPH. The trip covered all sorts of terrain and weather conditions, up the mountains out of Phoenix, through quite a bit of rain, some quite heavy, and some strong cross winds.
I liked the Maverick before we left, and I love it now. What a smooth comfortable ride! I have a fair amount of back and hip pain and normally require my wife to drive a significant portion on trips to give me a break. But on this trip I drove the entire 4226 miles with none of the discomfort I expected, without any medication, and without needing to stop every couple of hours. I was completely and pleasantly surprised by this.
The Mav handled the road conditions, traffic, and weather like a champ. Held steady in the very strong cross winds. The only thing that made it shudder a little was a wicked little dust devil that snuck out from an overpass in New Mexico. And completely unaffected when passing or being passed by tractor-trailers.
I love the surprising amount of "juice" it has when needed to make some passes on a few two lane roads.
I ran it almost exclusively in ECO mode and I tend to be a conservative driver so I am generally going to get a little better gas mileage than the average. I had hoped to average better than 30 MPG, and after getting out of the AZ mountains it was in the 26 range, but gradually improved to average over 32 for the entire trip.
Images are outgoing, return and overall.
As an added bonus, the Truxedo tonneau cover performed perfectly...not a drop of water in the bed despite some pretty heavy downpours.
Disclaimer: I am not a technician, car aficionado, or an expert on all the nuances of a driving machine. I'm just a driver who enjoys driving, and a nice vehicle.
That aside, my wife and I recently completed a 4000+ mile road trip from Phoenix, AZ to mid Michigan in our new Maverick. It was not a "pleasure" ride, but to attend a memorial service or a relative who had passed away. So it was an "out and back" with no side trips or excursions. It was mostly on Interstate highways or 4-lane highways. On the freeways the adaptive cruise was usually set at a constant 73 MPH. The trip covered all sorts of terrain and weather conditions, up the mountains out of Phoenix, through quite a bit of rain, some quite heavy, and some strong cross winds.
I liked the Maverick before we left, and I love it now. What a smooth comfortable ride! I have a fair amount of back and hip pain and normally require my wife to drive a significant portion on trips to give me a break. But on this trip I drove the entire 4226 miles with none of the discomfort I expected, without any medication, and without needing to stop every couple of hours. I was completely and pleasantly surprised by this.
The Mav handled the road conditions, traffic, and weather like a champ. Held steady in the very strong cross winds. The only thing that made it shudder a little was a wicked little dust devil that snuck out from an overpass in New Mexico. And completely unaffected when passing or being passed by tractor-trailers.
I love the surprising amount of "juice" it has when needed to make some passes on a few two lane roads.
I ran it almost exclusively in ECO mode and I tend to be a conservative driver so I am generally going to get a little better gas mileage than the average. I had hoped to average better than 30 MPG, and after getting out of the AZ mountains it was in the 26 range, but gradually improved to average over 32 for the entire trip.
Images are outgoing, return and overall.
As an added bonus, the Truxedo tonneau cover performed perfectly...not a drop of water in the bed despite some pretty heavy downpours.
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