Could Our 2025 Ford Maverick Hybrid Replace My Daily Driver?

Then there’s just about everything else. The XLT trim of the Maverick does not come with adaptive cruise control or cooled seats. You can’t get Maverick with cooled seats, which is egregious in the year of our lord 2025. But it’s the lack of adaptive cruise control that I found maddening while driving the Maverick up and down Interstate 5. To get adaptive cruise control, you’ve got to spend another $8,000 to get the Maverick Lariat. It’s absurd that a $40,000 vehicle doesn’t come with this feature.

Easy come, easy cargo

The Maverick is a pickup truck. That means you’ve got a truck bed that’s 3.5 feet wide and 4.5 feet long. If you’ve got a lot of gear, or gear that’s shaped funny, the Maverick makes a lot of sense. 

On a recent road trip, I had neither. I was only in San Jose for the weekend and didn’t bring a stroller for my child. That means my family had a few suitcases, a travel crib, and some other odds and ends. We could have fit all this in the trunk of our Niro, which has 22.8 cubic feet of storage. 

The Maverick does not have a tonneau cover, which meant I needed a way to secure the gear in the back. I picked up an inexpensive ($35) cargo net on Amazon, which did the job just fine. The downside? You can’t exactly leave the truck with all your stuff in the middle of a Target parking lot. I mean, you can, but I wouldn’t recommend it.