The online car configurator for the 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E is out—and Ford is officially charging folks an extra $495 if they want a frunk.
The online car configurator for the 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E is out—and Ford is officially charging folks an extra $495 if they want a frunk.
I’m not convinced. I’d like to see a picture of the frunk-less version from a different angle where the perspective isn’t flattened.
Even as it is, though, I see the same shape in the frunkless version as I do in the frunk.
(Also, why would Ford design a second mechanical configuration, when they already had to make it more compact for the version with the frunk anyway? It doesn’t make sense for it to be different because designing two things with two different BOMs and assembly processes costs way more than just letting it all be the same.)
You have convinced me.
New frunk is too shallow to be practical, only a small set of their customers want it, and Ford wants to reduce cost of the base model.
I could possibly see a ease of manufacturing be worth making a different BOM if the frunk dramatically changed the layout, but that I don’t think that is what happened.