Test drive: The 2022 Ford Maverick Hybrid is a cheap little truck ... in a good way
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The 2022 Ford Maverick hybrid is Ford's lowest-priced model and a new type of truck for the brand.
At a starting price of $21,490, the Mexican-made Maverick isn’t just the lowest-priced Ford, but also the lowest-priced pickup and lowest-priced hybrid currently on sale. So think of it as a three-for-one deal.
Unlike the body-on-frame Ranger and F-150, it's built on a version of the same unibody platform as Ford’s Bronco Sport and Escape compact SUVs and has a front-wheel-drive, 191 hp four-cylinder hybrid powertrain that’s good for 37 miles per gallon of combined city and highway driving. That’s by far the best of any vehicle equipped with a bed.
The bed is only 4.5-feet long, but its wide enough to fit a standard-size pallet between the wheel wells and a 4-foot-wide sheet of plywood on top of them with the tailgate down. The payload capacity for the vehicle is 1,500 pounds, but that should cover a lot of mulch, even if you bring a couple of friends with you to the garden store.