Spied: 2025 Maverick Refresh Prototypes Reveal Additional TWO New Grille Designs [UPDATED]

[Joe Strummer]

I much prefer my Tremor grill with the orange insert.

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[PGAJayhawk]

Is this the return of Avalanche Gray?

 

[23grayXLT84]

These xl and XLT versions look better than the lobo version...

You see a XLT and a Lariat . Giveaway is the lights. One has similar DRLs as current and other has a light strip.

 

[Montana]

It just keeps getting worse with the grilles. Better than the Lincoln knock off vertical grille, but still ugly as hell. Nothing will change that weird new front bumper portion that cuts into the headlights. The lower bumper looks great, but the rest is meh. Sucks too because I like the overall headlight design but they should have just kept the same square like form.

I also like how they taped over the useless DRL in the lower tier model. Just so we can't see how stupid it looks without it working.

 

[RookieBlue7]

Don’t care for the grille refresh personally… the hood lines don’t follow the grille and the shrinking headlights aren’t good. Only bonus is it looks like factory fogs will be an option

 

[imboden013]

UPDATE:
Just after showing another new grille design for the facelifted 2025 Ford Maverick, we caught yet another (third) new face. This third new grille design looks closer to the current Maverick grille, with a horizontal crossbar encompassing the Ford oval. The new face shows off the new headlight design, first revealed on a completely undisguised Maverick test vehicle earlier this week.

Likely Shows the New Maverick XL Grille
We think this new grille may represent the base XL Maverick grille, for two reasons: 1) The headlights look like they may be more simplified, without the prominent LED signatures, and more halogen overtones, and 2) This prototype’s side mirror doesn’t have the new camera that’s in place on the higher-end Lariat model spied earlier. It would seem that a mroe entry-lvel version may still be available without the upgraded safety and possible autonomous features that appear to be coming for the updated trucks.


ORIGINAL POST:
We just caught another one of the 2025 Ford Maverick’s new grille designs, thanks to a prototype that has shed its front-end camouflage.

Like the completely undisguised prototype we caught earlier this week, this Maverick test truck is running on 19-inch wheels, but NOT the dished turbofan design. Instead, the truck in these latest shots is wearing the original 19-inch wheel design from the initial phases of testing.

This Maverick prototype showcases the new headlight design from the our earlier shots, but the new grille is a big departure from the vertically-slatted grille caught on the earlier Lariat prototype that was caught, undisguised, in blue. Instead, this new grille looks like a more traditional pickup grille treatment, with an aggressive, woven mesh design. We’re not sure exactly what trim this model represents. It could be and XLT, but we’ll have to wait for more camo to be discarded to know for sure.

Grille #2

Grille #3

better than that vertical crap, but why not just leave it alone.

 

[LAClippers420]

That bumper thing by the headlights continues to look atrocious.

 

[CuteLilTruck]

Grill is better! Those pictures indicate the XLT with the more "traditional" wheels and without so much paint matching going on. The mirrors are not paint matched either. This Maverick looks much better in my opinion. The grill, the wheels, the color. Still the front end is questionable but the black color seems to hide the odd lines and cutoffs. The new headlights are apparently supposed to look like the "HORNS" that a Maverick (the animal) has.

Someone help... Does Ford needs to get their naming convention straight? Ford... Mustang, Bronco, Pinto, all horse related. Then they switched to farm animals in general. The original Maverick as a unbranded/unorthodox vehicle, but relating to cattle. Also the Lobo series of vehicles... which isn't a horse or bovine... wtf.

 

[shizelbs]

They're both perfectly fine.

 

[Deleted member 5352]

Judging by the painted door handles, black painted mirror caps and nicer wheels on the white one, that will be the standard Lariat. And judging by the black plastic mirror caps and lesser wheels on the silver one, that will be the XLT. The XL would have steelies unless they're going to replace them with traditional alloys. Those wheels on the silver one look exactly like the current XLTs so it's safe to say which trim that is.

Like I mentioned in the ST post, once you have that visual contrast with the black plastic, it will be much easier on the eyes and sure enough, they're following suit on the other trims. I knew they would. There's no way they would go to the trouble and body color every Maverick trim. That would cost a fortune. I also knew the pitiful waterfall grille and SEMA wheels wouldn't be on the other trims either. It's just for that new ST/Lobo trim.

With all that said, I do enjoy these more traditional grilles. Still takes some getting used to since the Maverick didn't really need a drastic front fascia overhaul but these are a step in the right direction. It's still hard to gauge what they truly look like with the camo that's there and the potential endurance testing damage. Once the full reveal comes out, it should all come into affect. From what I can see, I'm getting new Ranger vibes which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm curious to see the full interior.

 

[Akuma72387]

These grills are far better in my opinion that the one I saw a couple days ago on the blue "St/Lobo" the thin slatted grill just didn't look right to me.

 

[Akuma72387]

I just don't like those new lights and the black inserts they put below the lights that match the grill might look worse than the body colored ones on the blue one. The grill looks better though.

100% agree with you the new lights just look worse and these grills a FAARR better than the blue truck from earlier this week. I have been waiting for a ST or Raptor.. something. I planned to trade my 22 in for one but I really don't like the whole front end on that blue truck.. like at all

 

[Joeneonturbo]

I’m not feeling it. I like the headlights but underneath them and the grill there’s a painted void- feels likes it’s missing something

 

[IHateSpeedbumps]

I think I am going to wait till everything gets fully revealed. This does seem more promising though.

 

[tellyouwhat]

Good thing they blacked out the Ford logo. Nobody knows it's a Ford from the oval.

The bottom of the grille is atrocious.

not even sure why they bothered to leave it covered. all the parts that are covered look a lot like the existing parts

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