Ford has carried out for emblems at the F-150 Lobo and Maverick Lobo names, hinting at imaginable new variants of the 2 pickup vans.

Each trademark packages had been filed with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO) August 14 protecting “motor cars, particularly fuel and electrical vehicles, pickup vans, game application cars, and their structural portions.”

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“Lobo” is Spanish for “wolf,” so the Lobo fashions would enlarge a menagerie of pickup variants that already contains the F-150 Rattler and Raptor off-road fashions. Ford’s lineup is beautiful smartly stocked with off-road vans in this day and age, together with no longer most effective the Rattler and Raptor, but in addition Tremor variations of each the F-150 and Maverick.

The trademark packages point out “fuel and electrical vehicles,” however there’s no electrical Maverick as of but. Ford is operating on a efficiency model of the F-150 Lightning, however has already filed an indicator utility for the F-150 Flash identify, which turns out like a extra possible candidate.

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That leaves an internal-combustion efficiency style as an opportunity. This may fill an opening within the Maverick lineup, and would give the F-150 lineup one thing it hasn’t had because the unique, gasoline-powered Lightning went out of manufacturing. Ford just lately presented a supercharger choice for the F-150, however as a dealer-installed efficiency package deal, no longer as a part of a definite style.

A refreshed F-150 is slated to debut on the 2023 Detroit auto display in September, updating the present technology that debuted for the 2021 style yr. Anticipated to debut as a 2024 style, secret agent photographs level to new designs for the lighting fixtures at each ends, perhaps a multifunction tailgate, and a revised sprint with a portrait-oriented touchscreen. If a Lobo variant is not a part of this refresh, it might seem with the next-generation F-150 anticipated in 2027.