Maverick AWD System Explained

Great video from Driver.ca with input from Ford Canada / engineer that worked on it. If you enjoy technical details this is great

FlyingScot said:

Great video from Driver.ca with input from Ford Canada / engineer that worked on it. If you enjoy technical details this is great

Click to expand...

A great video and just enforces why I ordered the AWD. Thanks for posting.

Applying braking to the inside rear tire on a turn in order to create an anchor point is pretty neat!

Didn't know Mav had torque vectoring. Makes it even worse that the stock tire on the off-road package is barely an all season lol.

Neat video, but I wish someone could do a really deep dive video about how the different drive modes function.

I have to see how to display operation on instrument cluster.

So it's mostly FWD? Then why did everyone with FWD 4K towing have to get AWD.

Another thing all these videos that I've seen are of the FX4 what about others with XL or XLT AWD without the fancy display and modes

A Dodge that drives Fords said:

Another thing all these videos that I've seen are of the FX4 what about others with XL or XLT AWD without the fancy display and modes

Click to expand...

You can still get the awd display in a standard XLT awd and you still get the “fancy” drive modes. The exception is the screen is smaller and instead of sand and mud/ruts you get eco and sport. So you still get slippery.

Wow impressive the way this system works!

A Dodge that drives Fords said:

So it's mostly FWD? Then why did everyone with FWD 4K towing have to get AWD.

Click to expand...

Because you want the wheels with the most weight on them to be driven by the motor and while towing it becomes very likely that the rear wheels will have more weight than the fronts.

I call BS on the claim that it can transfer 100% of the power to the rear. 50% is more likely, as I've never seen a FWD based AWD system that could send all of the power out back.

paneubert said:

Applying braking to the inside rear tire on a turn in order to create an anchor point is pretty neat!

Click to expand...

Stability control systems have been doing this for at least a decade that I know of, if not longer.

A Dodge that drives Fords said:

So it's mostly FWD? Then why did everyone with FWD 4K towing have to get AWD.

Click to expand...

Most likely just parts shortages, so they put the parts they had into the higher end models. Same reason for the downgraded infotainment.

JASmith said:

I call BS on the claim that it can transfer 100% of the power to the rear. 50% is more likely, as I've never seen a FWD based AWD system that could send all of the power out back.

Click to expand...

I would like to know this as well. Everything I have read about my escape says that it can do 100 to the rear, but it's not really ever an official source.

Love to see the review from a locale very near to me in Ontario. Everyone has reasons why they bought their trim/version of this truck but this just helps me understand my own version a little better (when it arrives in a month). Either way very good info.

Also as someone who knows nothing about exhaust, in those under carriage shots in the snow is it supposed to have so much sway in it? Seems like a recipe for broken hangers.

FlyingScot said:

Great video from Driver.ca with input from Ford Canada / engineer that worked on it. If you enjoy technical details this is great

Click to expand...

About 50 seconds into the video, the narrator says that they are showing a hybrid with an all wheel drive system. Hybrid models do not have an all wheel drive system available to order. Is this something unique to models sold in Canada?