One more question: what do you use your FRUNK for?

[O2TheL]

Frunk? I'm English (as-in I speak proper English) and it's clearly a "froot" (front-boot)

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[Swissbob]

Smuggling stuff into Switzerland ?

 

[FlyingPoint]

Honestly, one of the few disappointments with my Taycan is how small the frunk is in this car. It's much smaller than my GT4, and pretty unusable for much of anything.

While I have not measured it, I am pretty sure my GT3's frunk is larger.

 

[TDinDC]

While I have not measured it, I am pretty sure my GT3's frunk is larger.

It is. So is my 911’s front trunk

 

[tigerbalm]

Yes it sucks the frunk is smaller but understandable since, unlike the Cayman or 911, most Taycans actually have a combo motor/transmission unit in the front and all that associated hardware is going to take away room for a more sizable frunk space.

Always surprised me just how busy with equipment the front of the Taycan really is.

 

[TYKHAAAN]

I store my car cleaning supplies in there.

 

[gnop1950]

I can find absolutely no usage of the word Frunk in any book I own, online or anywhere else before 2000. Nowhere did I say Elon had anything to do with it, he was mentioned merely as a reference in time. Surely if the word was used in the 1980s it would have some reference somewhere? Paul Frere certainly didn’t use the term in 2006. He used front and rear boot. Regardless of its origins Porsche uses the word trunk and I believe Porsche owners should too. Leave frunk to the infidel non believer Tesla owners.

I remember talking to my friend after driving his Dad's 1964 Porsche in 1968 (yes I'm that old) about the trunk being in front. He jokingly called it a frunk, I should give him credit for originating the term, although the f wasn't for front If I remember correctly, the conversation went something like: Me - "Weird having the f***ing trunk in the front.", Him -"It's a frunk." Which is the first and likely last time I heard it called a "frunk" until I bought my Taycan.

Although I read somewhere that they call it a "Froot" in Australia and New Zealand. Personally, I stuck my Tesla destination charger adapter in there and mostly just forget it even exists except when I pick up especially fragrant delicacies from the market.

 

[DerekS]

On a road trip, the frunk contains:

- Collapsible carwash bucket
- Rinseless/waterless car wash solution
- Canvas bag full of soft towels and microfibers
- Tire patch kit

Aside from that I've put takeout wings in there for odor containment as others have mentioned. Cases of bourbon/wine, etc.

 

[TDinDC]

Briefcase when in town

 

[Mike in CA]

I remember talking to my friend after driving his Dad's 1964 Porsche in 1968 (yes I'm that old) about the trunk being in front. He jokingly called it a frunk, I should give him credit for originating the term, although the f wasn't for front If I remember correctly, the conversation went something like: Me - "Weird having the f***ing trunk in the front.", Him -"It's a frunk." Which is the first and likely last time I heard it called a "frunk" until I bought my Taycan.

Unless you have published written documentation or an audio recording of that event in 1968 you obviously must be making it up.

 

[YLA G]

French fries or pita, pizza etc.. ( no smell )

And laptop on my tesla (has auto frunk, so it needs no effort)

 

[Gooner]

Use it for smaller groceries all the time, coming from a Cayman where is used it in the same way.

 

[Wakesurfer]

Or.....................take wife's car to get pick-up, etc. Eliminates contamination of the frunk!

 

[smoothound]

Of course as a brit, I will store Fruit in my Froot -

If I ever take it to the good ole US, no doubt I will stash Junk in my Frunk.

and in Canada I would hide bits of moose in my fraboose

 

[f1eng]

Paul Frere certainly didn’t use the term in 2006. He used front and rear boot. Regardless of its origins Porsche uses the word trunk

Boot is the English word. Trunk is the Northern American word. Paul Frere uses English but Porsche will use the local language word in whatever country they are selling in, I suppose.

Frunk was a new word for me. I know what Americans mean when they sat trunk from deduction after watching American films.

I will have to fit all the luggage in there when mine comes, my do will "own" the boot.

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