• PointAndClique [they/them]
      hexbear
      10
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      TIL. It's not a common term here. We call the trunk the boot, and front storage is exceedingly rare so that I've never encountered a car with it. I guess frunk will catch on in the absence of a 'froot'

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
        hexbear
        8
        3 months ago

        Yeah, front storage went away for a while when air cooling faded away and rear-engined cars became exclusively rich guy sportscars. Now that EVs are becoming more common, most of them have a little storage compartment under the hood or bonnet, so frunk is becoming a more popular term again.

        I think tailgate is still the correct term even where the rear storage is the boot, but I've heard it more colloquially called a "boot lid"

        • PointAndClique [they/them]
          hexbear
          6
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          under the hood or bonnet, so frunk is becoming a more popular term again

          Ah yeah see, without learning the word frunk I would have said bonnet storage or just bonnet, then I read your other comment saying that the bonnet is the metal flap, so that's another TIL!

          Tailgate in Australia means to drive up someone's arse/not keep the safe distance between you and the driver in front, I'm guessing deriving from that they're on your tailgate. Interesting stuff, thanks.

          • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
            hexbear
            8
            3 months ago

            Yep! North Americans also call driving too close (and partying out of the back of ones car as one might pregame outside a sporting event) tailgating for the same reason: proximity to the vehicle's tailgate.

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        2
        2 months ago

        I reckon you'd still call it a boot, I don't see why the name has to change because it's in a different spot on the car