Think I saw a 2025 Maverick

[Area51BS]

As compared to what other overpriced vehicle?
I’m with you on the groceries. Along with about everything else being over priced and built like crap.

Even with the 'overpriced' vehicles we have now if you adjust for inflation they are cheaper than 90's vehicles. The '22 Maverick launched at what the Model T cost, if I remember correctly.

I am more worried about the pricing trends of groceries than the pricing trends of vehicles. I think we should all consider ourselves lucky to even have new vehicles to complain about.

1st World.

2 years in and the XL hybrid comes in at about 28k. Was 20.
My 22 Lariat AWD was 31k. Same one is now 37k.
My Bronco cost more now. But didn’t jump anywhere near that much.

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[Scott Asheville]

I did a posting some months ago comparing my 2022 Maverick XLT Lux AWD CP360 to my truly primitive 2010 Ford Ranger. I mathematically demonstrated (I used the BLS inflation calculator) that my 2022 Maverick, adjusted for content and inflation, cost me significantly less than my 2010 Ranger XLT with vastly less content. And that's for an amazingly better vehicle. I dare anyone to go for a drive in my 2010 Ranger XLT RWD 4-cyl manual, then drive my 2022 Maverick AWD XLT ecoboost and say the Ranger was the better deal.

It truly blew my mind that Ford was able to deliver the Maverick so cheap. No doubt, not building it in a UAW plant helped, but still it's an achievement.

And I'm not a Ford fanboy either. I just credit where it's due.

 

[Gonzo chris]

I did a posting some months ago comparing my 2022 Maverick XLT Lux AWD CP360 to my truly primitive 2010 Ford Ranger. I mathematically demonstrated (I used the BLS inflation calculator) that my 2022 Maverick, adjusted for content and inflation, cost me significantly less than my 2010 Ranger XLT with vastly less content. And that's for an amazingly better vehicle. I dare anyone to go for a drive in my 2010 Ranger XLT RWD 4-cyl manual, then drive my 2022 Maverick AWD XLT ecoboost and say the Ranger was the better deal.

It truly blew my mind that Ford was able to deliver the Maverick so cheap. No doubt, not building it in a UAW plant helped, but still it's an achievement.

And I'm not a Ford fanboy either. I just credit where it's due.

I guess, but that's kind of true of most products. Like televisions, you can get a 75-in 4K TV for less than $1,000. So you're comparing a 12-year-older vehicle to the Maverick.

 

[Scott Asheville]

Valid point, but apples to apples, my 3 Miatas (NA, NB, NC) were not that different from the newest Miata. I could swapped one for the other and had the same experience. Ranger to Maverick, it was shocking. In fairness, Ford milked that 1980s Ranger platform right to the very end. It was a pretty horrific vehicle, but it served a purpose.

 

[cyberdog]

Shame the OP doesn't have a 4k or 2k dashcam installed. I'd have been pulling the footage at the first opportunity.

 

[PNWMaverick]

I did a posting some months ago comparing my 2022 Maverick XLT Lux AWD CP360 to my truly primitive 2010 Ford Ranger. I mathematically demonstrated (I used the BLS inflation calculator) that my 2022 Maverick, adjusted for content and inflation, cost me significantly less than my 2010 Ranger XLT with vastly less content. And that's for an amazingly better vehicle. I dare anyone to go for a drive in my 2010 Ranger XLT RWD 4-cyl manual, then drive my 2022 Maverick AWD XLT ecoboost and say the Ranger was the better deal.

It truly blew my mind that Ford was able to deliver the Maverick so cheap. No doubt, not building it in a UAW plant helped, but still it's an achievement.

And I'm not a Ford fanboy either. I just credit where it's due.

We ran 2010 and 2011 (last year) Rangers for our fleet vehicles. Sport trim; extended cab, 4x4, vinyl flooring (bliss!). We paid $19.9K out the door on each of the Rangers when we purchased them as a group, new. Using BLS that is right about $28.8K today.

In our use case the Maverick would have been the better vehicle by a large margin.

 

[A Dodge that drives Fords]

Just wondering if anybody noticed this article from, Thedrive.com

https://www.thedrive.com/news/updated-2025-ford-maverick-spied-with-bigger-vertical-screen

Close to the bottom of the article it shows sky pictures and the headlights look odd closer to the Hood from the 2022-2024 Maverick's. I know the Lariat has the upper light. But in the spy picture they look round, and not orange like a turn signal.

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