After resurrecting the compact pickup, the Ford Maverick is now democratizing factory off-road kits with its new Tremor package.
Tremor trucks also get stronger halfshafts, a heavy-duty transmission cooler, and a low-speed off-road cruise control known as Trail Control. A unique front fascia, along with the hiked-up suspension, boosts the approach angle from 21.6 to 30.7 degrees.
Choosing the off-road hardware, though, isn't without compromises. As we found with the FX4 model, the Tremor's ride is less forgiving than the front-wheel-drive Maverick hybrid's. In addition to hitting potholes harder than the hybrid, the Tremor has a tendency to elicit side-to-side head toss when trundling over lumpy surfaces, both paved and unpaved, at low speeds.
That quibble is largely offset by the Maverick Tremor's extremely untrucklike handling. For a nose-heavy vehicle that favors sending torque to its front tires, its cornering behavior is a minor miracle. Credit the Tremor's advanced all-wheel drive, which powers the outside rear wheel in turns to help rotate the truck rather than steering solely with the front tires.
Off-road, the Tremorized Maverick leans heavily on the basics—traction and ground clearance—rather than the monster-truck suspension travel that encourages Raptor-esque aerobatics and hardcore scrambling. As such, the Tremor is unlikely to convince the mouth breathers flinging third-grade insults that a Maverick isn't a"real" truck. It is plenty capable for how mostworld.
The Maverick's 250-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-four, on the other hand, feels like it's here to do the job it was hired for and nothing more. It dishes out ample power and torque without hesitation but is neither polished nor enthusiastic when asked to rev beyond 4,000 rpm. At the test track, the Tremor did trim half a second from our previous low 0-60 time set with the Maverick FX4, scoring a 6.5-second result that feels like a perfectly accurate snapshot of its performance.
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