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The 2026 Ford Maverick Lobo Turns a Working Vehicle into a Pleasurable Street Machine

With sport tuning, Ford's smallest pickup truck edges into the world of zippy coupes and hot hatchbacks.

Ford sells a staggering number of pickup trucks. According to some data aggregators, the longstanding Dearborn, Mich. automaker moves an F-150 every 30 to 50 seconds, so two trucks sold per minute on a good day. But not everyone wants a workhorse, and the success of the F-150 and the extended bed Super Duty has let Ford add more options to its pickup paddock. While those builds and their variants show up for eight-hour days on building sites, farms, ranches and quarries, the automaker found a distinctly playful niche for its less-bulky Maverick pickup. And the new Lobo edition deepens the vehicle’s commitment to fun.

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But first, some background. Urban dwellers aren’t filling their truck beds with lumber, gravel or livestock, but they do have stuff to haul. Since city or suburban streets and the driveways lining them can prove less accommodating to a full-size pickup, Ford brought two smaller........

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