2025 Ford F-150 Lobo First Look: BYO Performance Mods

Ford has added a new Lobo trim package for the 2025 F-150 that pays homage to street culture and will be on sale this fall. If the Lobo name sounds familiar, that's because it is the name assigned the F-150 in Mexico—and recently given to a similar Lobo sport truck variant of the 2025 Ford Maverick compact pickup that went on sale earlier this year. While the Maverick Lobo is a more autocross-oriented performance truck, the F-150 Lobo is designed to be a tough street truck with a more aggressive appearance, not necessarily more general athleticism.

Ford has been paying attention to the growing street culture trend, watching what buyers are doing to their trucks, F-150 marketing manager Jeff Schulz says. The trend is evident in the customized trucks showing up at customer research events and on chatrooms and websites. Many of these customer trucks have been lowered, wear ground effects, and see upgrades to their powertrains.

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Lobo is an F-150 STX With a Little Somethin' Somethin’

For the F-150 Lobo, the focus is on bold styling and V-8 power. The Lobo starts out as an F-150 STX SuperCrew with the 400-hp, 410-lb-ft 5.0-liter V-8 engine and the same interior.

The $4,695 Lobo package of upgrades focuses on the suspension; the rear of the truck has been lowered by 2 inches for an athletic stance, lead exterior designer Josh Blundo says. Blondo is a street truck guy. His daily driver is an axle-flip, V-8 single-cab short-bed F-150. In his free time, he is building a 1995 Ranger drift truck. “I definitely live this culture.”

“Our F-150 customers, they’ve been building street trucks,” Blundo says. “This platform, especially the V-8 4x4, has become an absolute superstar in that scene.” Credit its V-8 power and sound, 4x4 capability, and the switch to a lighter aluminum body in 2015 that cut 700 pounds in weight, boosting performance and creating a more athletic vehicle.

“What this customer has always desired is some factory imagery that matched the menace of those street car builds,” Blundo says. And a huge bonus: a factory warranty.

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Gotta Look the Part

Street truck culture is about styling as well as performance. In addition to lowering the rear end, the Lobo wears a 10-piece body kit. For a more sinister face, there is a wide, gloss black mesh lower grille and unique upper grille with the same white signature lighting hat used on the Maverick Lobo, giving them the same character when viewed at night. The F-150 and Maverick Lobos have some familial similarities but were executed differently.

In keeping with street culture, body color and chrome have been replaced with gloss black panels and accents, including the hood vents and dual exhaust. The truck rides on unique 22-inch gloss black wheels.

Ford removed badging from the tailgate because street truck customers so often badge-delete, so it was a nod to them in their desire for a clean aesthetic. And no, there is no wolf (Lobo is Spanish for "wolf") badge, only the word mark on the fender trim.

“Every piece of it was looked at from the mindset of street car users and enthusiasts,” Blundo says.

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Upgrades From More Expensive Trim Levels

The Lobo package adopts features normally found on higher trim levels. That includes an upgraded two-speed automatic four-wheel-drive system, the cowl hood from the Tremor, and the taillights from other trims.

In tweaking the Lobo, Ford kept the aftermarket in mind to make the truck easier to modify for those who want to do so. The dual exhaust is easy to take off, and the lower grille on the front end is open for aftermarket cooling needs. There won’t be Ford Performance parts specific to the Lobo, but many of the existing parts will work on the truck.

The 2025 F-150 Lobo is being offered with five exterior colors, which is fewer than the regular STX but one more than the Maverick Lobo. Both Lobos comes in white, gray, blue, and black. The F-150 adds Rapid Red, from a history of red F-150 street trucks.

Basically, the $59,995 F-150 Lobo gives you a well-equipped and mean-looking full-size street truck. Assembled at the Dearborn Truck Plant, it will be available this fall. It is an exciting first entry and the return of the V-8 street truck after two decades, Blundo says.