Not surprising to see demand for the hybrid being so high. It's the more fuel efficient, more affordable, more reliable version of the maverick aside from a small number of early maverick owners having wiring harness issues. Which almost certainly won't be an issue for future builds. The Ecoboost maverick is still a fantastic truck, but it only really comes into its own if you need awd, which most people in my state of Utah don't, our winters are quite mild, or need to tow or haul a lot. Which we won't be using our maverick to do. Only hauling a few times a year, and definitely not towing at all, have no need to. That being said, I hope Ecoboost owners still have a fantastic ownership experience, no hate towards them.So far I have heard from three sources that somewhere around 80% of the orders for 2023 Mavericks are for hybrids.
The Ford Video Guy said that about 80% of their hundreds of orders were for hybrids. That was covered well in this post.
https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/f...xlt-206-lariat-with-80-of-them-hybrids.20750/
There is a poll here that says that 72.9% of the 480 members that answered the poll had ordered hybrids
https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/is-your-2023-order-a-hybrid-or-ecoboost.20390/
There was also a post in the Facebook Maverick group by someone at a smaller dealership that said that 21 of their 25 orders (84%) were for hybrids.
Ford has said that they expect that about 35% of the 2023 Mavericks can be built as hybrids.
Despite some of the wild numbers being thrown out no one really knows how many 2023 orders have been entered but I think that it is pretty safe to say that they have a lot more hybrid orders than they can fill.
It could be that Ford managing the orders well and closed the Hybrid order book before there were way more hybrid orders than they could fill but when you hear about dealerships with hundreds of customer orders I tend to doubt that.
Ford has already said not to expect any sort of price protection like they did for 2022 orders if you do not get a 2023 order. The tone of that memo which also said they would close the order books early sounded a bit panicked.
I set up my preorder in July for my ideal hybrid when the order book was scheduled for August when little of this was known. By Monday it was pretty clear that even with long wait that the odds of me getting that 2023 hybrid were not good so I set up a second order for an Ecoboost with a different dealer. I hope I will get the Ecoboost by next spring if not even by this winter since only 20% of the orders are for Ecoboosts.
We will not be driving a lot of miles each year on our Maverick so the lower MPG does not have a huge impact on us and the Ecoboost will still get better MPGs than the pickup it is replacing so that can work for us.
It is not clear to me if you will be allowed to change your order from Hybrid to Ecoboost after the order banks close. If someone knows for sure it would be good if you could clarify that.
If not then today(9/21/22) is the last day that you can set up an Ecoboost order so you might want to consider if you should change your order to Ecoboost or enter a backup Ecoboost order if not getting your hybrid would be a problem for you.
Any thoughts about this elephant?
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