Future Mavericks - I am optimistic

[zorki1c]

The future I want to see is high performance street. The Focus RS was limited production and arrived with heavy dealership markups because of it... Just like the GT350R and anything else nice Ford has ever sold. LOL.

The Mustang is overpriced and a performance Maverick wouldn't drag sales any lower- EVs are doing that just fine as it is. (Why get a 60k Mustang dark horse when it's much slower in a straight line than a $50K Mach-E?)

So, make the Maverick ST, or Lobo GT, or whatever the marketing gurus want to call it, but give us more horsepower. Please and thanks!

Way back when Roots, a British car company took the rather docile Sunbeam sports car and shoehorned a Ford 260 ci engine into it and created a poor man’s Cobra Called the Sumbeam Tiger. I test drove one and performance was unbelievable.
I asked the salesman why Sumbeam used the 260 rather than the better known 289. He said, “Well, the car is so light you can lay rubber in all four gears and one of our customers wound the 260 to oblivion in fourth gear on a Nevada highway. So what good would the 289 be?” Incidentally you probably can’t touch a restored Tiger now for less than 100 grand. They were $3,600 back then.
I have the Maverick with the 2.0 ecoboost and 250 hp and the four cylinder can pin you back in your seat. I suspect as light as the Maverick is it would have trouble getting 350 or 400 hp to the street. And the truck was never really designed for that kind of power. So why do you want a higher performance engine?
Back in the day I knew a guy with a VW beetle that was just about unbeatable. That’s because there was a 327 ci Chevy engine where the back seat should be. The car had no practical value other than dragging Main Street on Saturday night. Seems giving the Maverick more engine is the same sort of deal.

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[Tbone289]

I have the Maverick with the 2.0 ecoboost and 250 hp and the four cylinder can pin you back in your seat. I suspect as light as the Maverick is it would have trouble getting 350 or 400 hp to the street. And the truck was never really designed for that kind of power. So why do you want a higher performance engine?

There are plenty of vehicles sold today that have lower curb weights than the Maverick that put 350-400hp down to the street just fine with two-wheel drive. An AWD Maverick would do a fine job of handling that kind of horsepower if you could fit the drivetrain in with a transmission that wouldn't grenade.

With that said, I think the 2.0 EB is plenty for the Maverick.

 

[DefiantDJ]

Imagine how people would react in here if the only color option was black.

When Henry Ford started, black was THE color. The only color!!

 

[dochawk]

When Henry Ford started, black was THE color. The only color!!

You can buy it in any color you want, as long as it dries in 20 minutes!

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