Engineering Explained buys a Maverick and explains why the Maverick rocks

[Huchipapa]

It was fun to watch but if I wasn't already a Maverick owner, nothing he said would have inspired me to buy one. He's definitely on point about the knob shifter, though. It's my first one too, and I've lost track of the number of times I've turned it the wrong way...or, worse yet, turned the fan control knob instead (I'm used to having the shifter on the dash, from driving my Nissan and my Promaster work truck).

I guess I'm a mindless adapter. It's been a minor adjustment to my automotron movements when I get in my car and press the start button. But when I bought my Outback in '13 I was expecting to spend endless hours pacing back and forth about the CVT "drone" that people harped about and it took me all of one day to acclimate....

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[JASmith]

This seems to be the week for Maverick revisits.

This is usually dictated by Ford marketing themselves, not the youtubers. My guess is that with the 2025 Santa Cruz refresh and Toyota rumors, that Ford just felt it made sense to keep Ford on the radar even if they have no issues selling every one they are making right now. Reason I think that is in that review, they said that Ford reminded them that the Maverick outsells the SC 5 to 2.

Still, I'm hoping to see some news about a interior refresh for 2025.

 

[Tom 71 Maverick 24]

I'm with him on the transmission and the knob control. Biggest problem is the coders who worked on the transmission must not know how to drive. What a mess. I spend all my time in sport mode now rather than lug the engine all day.

Lugging the engine for mileage is a Ford thing. Actually, I think they all do it to a certain extent. My F-150 was all about up-shifting early, causing some serious lugging of the engine. In the case of my truck, sport mode would have worked, but I got a respectable tune on it from 5-star and it really straightened out the awkward shifting behavior. It doesn't hold the gears forever, but it upshifts a bit later, and downshifts a little earlier when I get on it. So instead of lugging, it responds.

 

[MMaverick]

Lugging the engine for mileage is a Ford thing. Actually, I think they all do it to a certain extent. My F-150 was all about up-shifting early, causing some serious lugging of the engine. In the case of my truck, sport mode would have worked, but I got a respectable tune on it from 5-star and it really straightened out the awkward shifting behavior. It doesn't hold the gears forever, but it upshifts a bit later, and downshifts a little earlier when I get on it. So instead of lugging, it responds.

My point and I think the op's is that this should NOT come from the factory this way. I get that they want to get the highest possible gas mileage for marketing purposes. That's for normal mode. I drive exclusively in sport mode and the transmission was programmed by a f___g moron.

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