The online car configurator for the 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E is out—and Ford is officially charging folks an extra $495 if they want a frunk.
The 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E Makes the Frunk a $495 Option
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a70495585/2026-ford-mustang-mach-e-frunk-495-dollars/
65 Comments
rem26_art@fedia.io · 36 pts · 158d
The pictures of the Mach E Frunk filled with chicken and shrimp are absolutely killing me lmao.
If the car was $500 cheaper without the frunk, then whatever, i guess, but the article makes it seem like it just costs extra now.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 10 pts · 158d
Yeah, WTF is this, are people really eating out of their car's front trunk like this?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 158d
Football tailgate parties.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 6 pts · 158d
I mean, still seems gross.
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 3 pts · 158d
I don't see how the smell of shrimp would ever leave when you have 20lbs of it sitting in ice right next to the air intake
Slax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 158d
Imagine the stench 🤢
rem26_art@fedia.io · 1 pts · 158d
Car's probably totaled now cuz I doubt any detailer is gonna wanna go within 50 feet of it.
1dalm@lemmings.world · 23 pts · 159d
I have a MMachE. Honestly the Frunk is not as useful as I imagined it would be (at least Ford's implementation of the Frunk." You have to open it just like you would the hood of your ICE car, which is fine for an ICE car hood, but not very convenient for storage access. As a result, I really don't use it that much.
grue@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 158d
So in other words, because they fucked up the implementation they think the concept as a whole is bad. Classic incompetence.
Also, I'd be willing to bet the aftermarket could provide a kit with a plastic liner and a modification to the latch that lets it be opened from outside the car for $495 or less.
Edit: ITT: pearl-clutching fearmongers who hate property rights (such as the right to modify).
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Until the hood flys up and smashes your windshield and blinding you at 120km/h.
Let’s leave this to the professionals, stuffs written from blood already. Let’s not go backwards eh?
This is one thing where convenience isn’t the first thing to think of.
wolfrasin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 158d
There a huge problem with having an easy open hatch with a sight blocking hatch out in front of the driver ready to block the view while they're driving, ya know?
It makes total sense for that space to have a 2 step safety latch no mater what's in it. I don't want your ideas on the road!
Don't be such an elonRedacted because we strongly agree on elon
grue@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 158d
What the fuck? That was completely uncalled for!
albbi@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 158d
They went straight to calling you a Nazi pedophile!
1dalm@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 158d
Ford figured out how to do it for the Lightning.
fascicle@leminal.space · 8 pts · 158d
I was about the say the lightning has an awesome front trunk, with all the power plugs you could dream of
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
The over-the-top response was unnecessary, but my first thought was along these lines. How do other brands deal with the latch for the frunk?
grue@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 158d
I don't have any cars with a "frunk," but I do have ones with front hoods and rear trunks and I'm pretty damn sure there's nothing particularly special about the latch in the front compared to the rear. Admittedly, I'm not sure why the hood is typically popped from inside the car instead of, say, via a lock cylinder mounted in the grill (maybe it's a tradition thing, or maybe a forward-facing lock cylinder gets dirty too easily?), but I don't think safety is it.
More to the point, the fearmongering about aftermarket owner modification is nonsense. People have been doing stuff like that for decades without any real problems. Hell, people put on carbon fiber hoods that don't even have hardware for the factory latch, and then secure them with hood pins instead, and that's street legal. There was nothing weird or dangerous or legitimately controversial about my idea in the slightest.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 158d
BMW did the same 2-stage latch on the i3 that you'd file on an engine cover, and I've been quite pleased it did when I've sat on the keys wrong and popped the bonnet at a traffic light. Knowing I could still drive to somewhere safe to close it properly was a good thing.
DreadPirateSnuggles@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 158d
True, but they could make the manual latch easy to find and intuitive.
mech@feddit.org · 0 pts · 158d
Downvoted you strictly for the edit
excursion22@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 158d
I use the one in my Ioniq 5 for storage of the more emergency/just in case items. Scissor jack, tire repair kit, that sort of stuff. You're right, it's not great for storage you'd want to access often, but it's nice for those types of things.
1dalm@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 158d
That's basically what I use mine for. I work in environmental engineering and am very often on construction sites. So I use it to store my PPE bag.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 158d
They fit a severed head, two arms.
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 158d
Wow, I didn't know that. The Rivian has a button that just opens the frunk with hydrolics. Seems like Ford just wanted it to be as close to an ICE vehicle as possible, maybe for manufacturing reasons?
1dalm@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 158d
It was almost certainly for manufacturing/cost reasons.
Not having it be hydraulic probably saves $2k per unit.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Get a lightning fob and you can open it with two clicks. Or PaaK and it'll show up in the app. It's direct Bluetooth then, not cellular like the locks so it's instant.
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 0 pts · 158d
I have a 20 year old VW Beetle with such severe electrical problems that makes basic functions like filling the gas tank and opening the trunk difficult. I'll never buy a car that uses the same technology as the OceanGate Titan to perform basic features. At least I was able to pry the gas lid open. But I have no confidence that modern cars will be able to function with similar issues in 20 years. I'm fact, I'm positive that Ford will start dropping functionality from their apps in 6 years when people still have 2 years left on their car loans
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 158d
Same with my Q8 e-tron. If there was a button to open it like the trunk I may use it more, but frankly I’ve forgotten it’s there.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 158d
The empty space between the components in the frunkless version makes it look like they would be a lot easier to access for DIY repair. Certainly easier access to the 12 V battery would be an improvement.
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 158d
No wonder Ford had to scale back their EVs, they weren’t properly advertising the shrimp cocktail bar frunk!
dom@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 159d
Surprised its not a monthly subscription. /s
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
Shhhhhhh! O crap what if they heard u
dom@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 157d
Oops. Sorry guys. That one is on me
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 158d
Frunk? Am I the only one who had no idea this was a word?
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 158d
Front trunk
I think Tesla popularized it
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
Vw beetle.
mech@feddit.org · 6 pts · 158d
In a beetle, it was just called Kofferraum.
And it was actually useful:
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 2 pts · 158d
That's more useful than the actual trunk on my 2004 Beetle
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 158d
I meant that Tesla recently popularized the term "Frunk" and made it more widespread with EV buyers.
I don't want to take anything away from Beetles and 911s.
jodanlime@midwest.social · 5 pts · 158d
I'm pretty sure it's related to a FUPA.
No but for real, just call it a bonnet like in the old days you cock wombles. We already had a word for this, and frunk is worse.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 158d
Bonnet and frunk are not the same thing, though. In the same way that trunk lid and trunk are not the same thing.
jodanlime@midwest.social · 2 pts · 158d
Bonnet bay? Bonnet storage? Idk but frunk ain't it.
fascicle@leminal.space · 3 pts · 158d
we can call it a bronk
jodanlime@midwest.social · 4 pts · 158d
Yeah, much better. Bronkin'
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
Sup bronko
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
The UK calls this ‘froot’.
Gewd jerb, UK.
1dalm@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 158d
Tesla was the first to say it and they didn't trademark it. It works so everyone else adopted the term.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Nah, vw beetle.
1dalm@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 158d
I don't think VW ever called it a frunk. I would believe you if you insist they did it can provide any evidence. Tesla want the first to put storage up there, but they did coin "frunk".
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
I suppose people were calling it a frunk even if vw didnt.
Same for rear engined Porsche and MR2 vehicles.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 158d
I do not understand how you got to an EV community without knowing what a frunk is
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 158d
i honestly can't tell if this is a joke article or not
schizoidman@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 158d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 158d
$500 for a plastic basket.
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mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 158d
Trying to sell that thing as a "Mustang" should be a crime.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 158d
All the pictures of frunk food were throwing me off
apftwb@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 158d
You all need to at least skim the article.If you don't pay for the frunk, its not leaving a void or locking your hood. Its a completely different configuration that uses the space.Edit: New opinion: New frunk is too shallow to be practical, only a small set of their customers want it, and Ford wants to reduce cost of the base model.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 158d
The article says that even with the frunk, the space has dropped from 4.7 cubic feet to 2.6. Are you sure the stuff in your picture isn't low enough that the 2.6 cubic feet of storage couldn't fit above it?
apftwb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
I think its a completely different configuration. I don't think a frunk tray could fit above it. The components in the photo don't appear to be densely packed so I think a lot of the empty volume exists between those components. With the frunk, they are likely routing cables and tubes around the 2.6 cubic foot frunk.
Edit: Here is a shrimp-less photo of the small 2025 Mustang Mach-E frunk (a sentence only possible in 2026)
https://fordauthority.com/2024/12/2025-ford-mustang-mach-e-gets-smaller-frunk-due-to-heat-pump/
Edit2: going back and forth between photos and also understanding the 2025/2026 models are different, I think it might only be a slightly different configuration or simply such a shallow frunk that its arguably not usable and hard for Ford to justify keeping it with the base model.
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
I'm not convinced. I'd like to see a picture of the frunk-less version from a different angle where the perspective isn't flattened.
Even as it is, though, I see the same shape in the frunkless version as I do in the frunk.
(Also, why would Ford design a second mechanical configuration, when they already had to make it more compact for the version with the frunk anyway? It doesn't make sense for it to be different because designing two things with two different BOMs and assembly processes costs way more than just letting it all be the same.)
apftwb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
You have convinced me.
New frunk is too shallow to be practical, only a small set of their customers want it, and Ford wants to reduce cost of the base model.
I could possibly see a ease of manufacturing be worth making a different BOM if the frunk dramatically changed the layout, but that I don't think that is what happened.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 157d
That bay looks like it was designed by high schoolers for a class project. Where the fuck do Ford hire engineers from, the Learning Annex parking lot?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 158d
Great for The Wing Pit.
RockBottom@feddit.org · 2 pts · 158d
OT, but why is this a Mustang and not a Model T?
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 0 pts · 158d
First off, there is a word in the English language for this, it's called a boot. Secondly, one could spend about 15$ on a plastic tub, and grab some zipties from around the house, install that in the boot, and have $480 leftover.