September 19, 2024

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Ford is including an off-road bundle to its hot-selling Maverick compact pickup

2023 Ford Maverick Tremor

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Ford Motor is including a brand new off-road-ready bundle to its Maverick pickup in a bid to increase the gross sales good fortune of its hot-selling small truck.  

The brand new Maverick Tremor bundle features a beefed-up, higher-riding suspension and a brand new all-wheel-drive machine machine powered through Ford’s 2-liter EcoBoost turbo four-cylinder engine. The bundle offers Maverick patrons get right of entry to to an choice that has confirmed standard on Ford’s greater pickups, mentioned Todd Eckert, supervisor of Ford’s pickup advertising and marketing.

“Ranger, F-150 and Tremendous Responsibility shoppers have embraced” the Tremor off-road programs that Ford has presented on the ones greater vans, Eckert mentioned. With the brand new Tremor bundle for Maverick, Ford aimed to convey an identical off-road features to the small truck whilst preserving its easy-to-park measurement and reasonably priced value, he mentioned.

The Tremor bundle will price about $3,000, and patrons will have the ability to order it beginning in September.

The Maverick has been a marvel hit for Ford, bringing new patrons to the logo drawn through its low value (it begins at about $21,000), its easy-to-park measurement (it is kind of the scale of a Toyota Avalon sedan), and its usual hybrid drivetrain (excellent for 40 miles in step with gallon in town riding). Ford mentioned in Would possibly that Mavericks spend simply 5 days on broker a lot, on reasonable, prior to being bought.

The Maverick could also be drawing new shoppers to the Ford logo — lots of whom are purchasing their first-ever new automobile. Ford mentioned past due ultimate yr that Maverick patrons are younger, with a couple of quarter beneath 35. They are additionally much more likely to be feminine: About 25% of Maverick patrons are ladies, as opposed to simply 16% of those that purchase Ford’s greater vans.

During the finish of June, Ford had bought about 52,000 Mavericks because the truck’s release ultimate fall.