The 2025 Ford Maverick EcoBoost features an all-new completely redesigned 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. It’s rated at 238 horsepower and 277 pound-feet of torque. In the Lobo AWD tester we have, it has an EPA rated fuel economy of 21 mpg city, 30 mpg highway and 24 mpg combined on regular unleaded gasoline.
While a 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine has been available for over a decade in Ford products, this latest generation is an all-new engine from the ground up starting with the 2025 model year. Now built at the Dearborn Engine Plant in MI instead of Cleveland, OH or Valencia, Spain – the engine shares little in the way of parts or components with the previous generation found in 2022-2024 Ford Mavericks.
It has a brand new aluminum block and head design, new cams and valve-train, new crankshaft, rods and pistons, a cast aluminum valve cover instead of plastic, a new belt driven water pump and revised accessory drive. Also added to the mix is a new gas particulate filter as part of the catalyst system which some early 2025 model year production models may not yet have installed.
Notably the new engine while still reading out at 2.0-liters, has a revised bore and stroke that makes it actually a slight bit smaller. Bore is down to 84 mm while stroke increases to 90 mm. Displacement is is down to 1995 cc from 1999 cc, or 121.7 cubic inches instead of 122 – a very small difference.
Key changes in functionality include a completely new fuel system that now has both multi-port and direct fuel-injection. A new air intake arrangement has the filter box mounted directly to the top of the engine which frees up space on the driver side and allows for open view of the transmission.
In that way, the Mavierick Lobo model we have here features a 7-speed sport-shift automatic transmission. For the purposes of our tour however the 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine bay here is virtually identical to other 2025 Maverick EcoBoost models as the both the 7-speed and 8-speed automatic transmissions shares the same visual appearance.
Starting with the airflow, the intake charge now starts starts at the top of the radiator just left of center and travels into the air filter box at the front top of the engine. From there the intake charge routes to the twin-scroll turbocharger which is at the rear of the engine and out of sight from above.
The turbocharger is mounted directly to the aluminum head which has an integral exhaust manifold for better thermal efficiency and is controlled by an electronically actuated waste-gate.
Now boosted, the intake charge then travels forward through a long duct to the air-to-air inter-cooler mounted behind the front bumper. Once cooled, the air then then routes back up to a drive-by-wire throttle body located at the front of the engine and into a composite plastic intake manifold.
On the top of the head you can see all four spark plug coil packs, though the one on the far right is slightly obscured. The fuel system is mostly hidden away from view with the port fuel-injection rail and injectors underneath the filter box. The direct fuel-injection lines and injectors are deep under the intake manifold – very difficult to see.
In spite of being tightly packaged, doing your own service and maintenance is relatively straight forward. The oil dipstick and filler cap are easy to find at the top of the engine in plain sight. Changing the oil filter requires access underneath which means removing a number of under shield panels.
Windshield washer fluid is at the passenger side fender with a bright blue cap. Next to it is the main engine coolant reservoir. Checking the brake fluid is done at the driver-side firewall. You will note here is an electric motor computer controlled booster master cylinder ABS combination unit because this Maverick has the full CoPilot 360 advance driving aids which require the computer has complete control over the brakes.
The 12-volt battery is located just to the side of the brake fluid reservoir and easy to access. While the main breaker fuses are under the hood, most accessory fuses are located inside the cabin under the glove-box at the consumer grade access block.
Changing the filter is an easy job, needing only to pop a couple clips to access the element. We have a full and complete how-to-video on our Maverick playlist linked at the end of this video.
Notable details under the hood include dual horns can be seen under the leading edge of the driver-side fender. Just ahead of them, are the LED headlamp assemblies which means only the turn signal and parking lamp bulbs are user serviceable. At the strut towers are decorative plastic covers which means replacing struts will require their removal first.
