The 2025 Ford Maverick Lobo dropped as a welcome addition to the popular pickup’s lineage. Positioned as a sporty street truck – reviving the sport truck movement from the 1980s through early 2000s – the Maverick Lobo has been turning heads both on the street and in the news. In fact, the general consensus is that its one hell of a pickup for its size.
Scott Evans of MotorTrend sang the Maverick Lobo’s praises. The publication was already in love with the Maverick, and Evans praises this latest variant for its go-fast, fun attitude.
“The Maverick Lobo goes harder than we could’ve expected,” Evans says. “Yes, it’s lowered – by 0.5 inch up front and 1.2 inches in back- and rides on bitchin’ 19-inch ‘turbofan’ wheels… but Ford didn’t stop there. The engineers, in a build-first-ask-permission-later scheme, raided the shared platform parts bin for performance hardware and came back with the front brakes from the European-spec Ford Focus ST hot hatch, the quicker steering rack of the European Ford Kuga SUV, and the twin-clutch, torque-vectoring rear differential from the off-road Maverick Tremor.”
Hagerty‘s Brandan Gillogly is enamored with the sporty pickup, too. He calls it a “return to form” in the vein of the Ford Lightning (not to be confused with the Ford F-150 Lightning), and commended Ford for sneaking into a niche opening of the market and bringing such a kickass pickup to the table.
“All of the changes made to create the Lobo seem minor on their own, yet they add up to a significantly different- and fun – driving experience, proving engineers did their homework and spent plenty of effort getting everything dialed in,” said Gillogly.
Bryon Hurd of The Drive had an opportunity to test out the 2025 Ford Maverick Lobo, and like the others, he was rather impressed with the small but mighty pickup. Hurd calls the Maverick Lobo an unlikely successor to the Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta, and commends Ford for bringing an uncommon model to the table.
“I was so focused on fooling with the differential on my first outing that I barely noticed how composed the Lobo could be if pushed more deliberately,” Hurd said. “I managed to scam my way into a second set of laps so that I could concentrate on the slalom, where the Lobo was surprisingly willing to hold a tight line. No sawing, no yawing, no big, ugly squeal on the exit as I hauled it around to the next gate – just constant chatter from the overtaxed but still obedient Goodyear Territory HTs.”
The 2025 Ford Maverick Lobo is a bit on the pricey side for the compact pickup, starting just north of $35,000. That’s nothing to sneeze at, but it offers an affordable option for pickup enthusiasts who don’t want to sacrifice fun for the sake of function.
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The Lobo looks great and one of the features I like the most is that it comes with fog lights. I think it really adds to the front end looks. Ford should have fog lights on other versions of the Maverick especially the Tremor variant.
I really just do not like the look of the front end thought it would grow me it has not. The Lobo front end just looks ugly to me. No horsepower increase also hurts it in MHO just think if it had 300 horsepower it would make up for that frontend maybe.
A Maverick for over $35K goes against the whole point of the model. Smells like Jimmy…at nonsense again.
Looks? Haha, this thing is so damn ugly.
I wish it was available in the UK, looks good to me.