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Great comment, thank you. I'd just like to add that the "frunk" isn't new -- I've been stashing my gym bag in my Porsche 911's frunk for years (it's a rear-engined car).

Edit: While I absolutely live the Model S, I can assure you that exceeding stalwarts of the 5-series category, like the BMW M5, will not be as easy to disrupt as the market the Model S aims for.




Does Porsche call it a "frunk" too? I can't stand that word, it's cute, but awful. Sounds like a word I might use to describe a particularly pungent cheese.


Agreed, it's almost as annoying a word as "blog," and look how that one caught on. :(


It's a popular portmanteau. MR2 owners also call it a frunk.

http://carpron.com/multisite/d/356228-1/frunk4.jpg


The iPad caused similar thoughts when it was released ...


Fragrant + funk?


It's like one of those old ladies who wear copious amounts of perfume rather than bathing.


I have an M5 and would definitely consider getting a Model S instead if I needed to replace my car.


Yeah, but maybe the frunk + full trunk is new?


The MKII MR2 turbo had both a trunk and a frunk. Not to the capacity of the Tesla, but still.


As did, I believe, the MKI and MKIII. None of the rear trunks could hold much more than a golf bag, of course, but anyway.


I assume the NA model was the same way? Or just the turbo?


I believe it was the same.


Touche :)


And the VW Beetle - 1938 that one started up




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