The frunk used to be standard, but now it costs hundreds of dollars to add to Ford’s electric SUV.
it now costs $495 to have a frunk insert installed on the 2026 Mustang Mach-E across its four trims. According to FA, the change was made because Ford’s designers learned owners weren’t taking advantage of the frunk space.
I bet it’ll be a dealer freebie.
You probably won’t be able to find one to buy that doesn’t have it.
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.
I bet it’ll be a dealer freebie.
Hahahahah. That’s funny. No such thing anymore. Dealers will charge you for everything.
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.
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.
Thankfully, they took the cybertruck off the board with them.
In both cases, reducing the standard features isn’t yielding savings and there’s no value gained. Bummer.
Shocked, i tell you.
How did they know the frunk wasn’t being used, exactly?
Because your car is spying on everything you do and reporting back to corporate headquarters.
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.
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.
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?
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.
They probably looked at telematics information and guessed what they mean?
Frunk surveillance by trained frunk monkeys.
So if you choose a frunkless model what is in that space instead? Or do you just get an akwardly short car?
You don’t get a frunk insert. The space will still exist.
So 3D print one, got it.
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.
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.
And they wonder why Canadians are signing up to wait lists for BYDs.
Hold the fob! It’s there a wait list?!
Crazy to think a frunk is half the price of my car.
Is it asshole behaviour? Yes Is it a significant enough cost to actually effect anyone’s decision? Probably no
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.
This isn’t a subscription. It’s enshitification perhaps, but not a recurring cost.
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.
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.
I agree for the most part. But this community is called Fuck Subscriptions right? This isn’t that.
