The frunk used to be standard, but now it costs hundreds of dollars to add to Ford’s electric SUV.

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    In both cases, reducing the standard features isn’t yielding savings and there’s no value gained. Bummer.

    Shocked, i tell you.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.