The frunk used to be standard, but now it costs hundreds of dollars to add to Ford's electric SUV.
What the Frunk? Ford Now Charging Buyers For 2026 Mustang Mach-E’s Front Trunk
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-mustang-mach-e-frunk-now-costs-extra
31 Comments
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 121d
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 121d
I bet it’ll be a dealer freebie.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 121d
You probably won't be able to find one to buy that doesn't have it.
laranis@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 119d
Anytime there are dealer add-ons the first thing I tell them is to take them off or of the er me a car without them. They can't, and they won't. Most times I've gotten them for free (or at least started the negotiation with having that amount knocked off the price). Only time that didn't work was right after COVID and cars were scarce. It was a very, "You'll pay what we tell you or you can get fucked" time.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
Hahahahah. That’s funny. No such thing anymore. Dealers will charge you for everything.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 121d
Next they'll charge for doors that open. And, they'll bundle things like passenger side windshield wipers with seat heaters, bluetooth, and high beams. I suppose that's already happening, I dunno, my car is a 2006.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 21 pts · 121d
There's a surprising number of now-deceased Cybertruck owners who would still be alive if they'd had doors that open; that sounds like a pretty good value prop.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d
Thankfully, they took the cybertruck off the board with them.
Mac@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 120d
Shocked, i tell you.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 121d
How did they know the frunk wasn't being used, exactly?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 16 pts · 120d
Because your car is spying on everything you do and reporting back to corporate headquarters.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 120d
This is silly because I have a car with a frunk. It is rarely opened but I keep emergency supplies in there, leaving my trunk free. So anyone monitoring my usage would say I’m not using it very much.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 11 pts · 120d
I believe it's like the lumbar support in Teslas, which were removed because apparently "nobody used it". It's not like your lower back moves every day so you have to tweak your seat settings every time you get in your car.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
They could've just, ya know, used the knobs like every other car for the last 30+ years. Why does everything have to be electronic?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 8 pts · 120d
Yeah ... it has always struck me as the perfect place to keep a spare charging cable, tools, emergency supplies, stuff you want to have with you, but don't necessarily need to access often.
talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 121d
They probably looked at telematics information and guessed what they mean?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 120d
Frunk surveillance by trained frunk monkeys.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 120d
And they wonder why Canadians are signing up to wait lists for BYDs.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 120d
Hold the fob! It's there a wait list?!
ambitious_bones@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d
So if you choose a frunkless model what is in that space instead? Or do you just get an akwardly short car?
Mac@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 120d
You don't get a frunk insert. The space will still exist.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 120d
So 3D print one, got it.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 119d
The Mustang is a example of poor design around the cooling system. SAE actually uses it as an example of what not to do with too many short hoses and connectors that will all fail with age. This is bush league engineering.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 120d
Electrical stuff, at least that's what's in my frunkless EV. Coolant tanks. Etc.
There's enough space though that Im pretty sure they could've made a shallow frunk, with a few deeper pockets.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
Crazy to think a frunk is half the price of my car.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 120d
Is it asshole behaviour? Yes Is it a significant enough cost to actually effect anyone's decision? Probably no
Sasquatch@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 119d
There is an admittedly weak justification. The new cooling system takes a lot more space, which dramatically reduces the frunk space. Not sure how much smaller, but I'd guess 30-40%. Not a good reason by itself; they have to put a piece of plastic in there anyway.
ClockworkN@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d
This isn't a subscription. It's enshitification perhaps, but not a recurring cost.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 119d
This is the perfect example of enshitification.
You're literally buying a fucking trunk. You know, the things that come standard on cars for the past 80 years?
It's like suddenly having to pay extra so your new car comes with tires and an seats.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d
Well, not quite.
If you bought an SUV, you don't have a trunk.
This is just a "hey the engine bay has free space and doesn't get hot, cool you can have a trunk as well as usual wagon/SUV space.
Here they are at least charging for actual parts, an engine bay full of plastic covering to hold stuff.
500 might seem a bit steep for just a bunch of plastic, but car companies charge that amount for plastic or rubber like that all the time, at least list price.
ClockworkN@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d
I agree for the most part. But this community is called Fuck Subscriptions right? This isn't that.