• OwOarchist@pawb.socialBannedEnglish
      5·
      12 days ago

      ‘Frunk’ is not Tesla-specific. Many electric cars have a frunk, and the term even predates electric cars – it’s common for rear-engine gasoline cars to have a frunk.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        4·
        12 days ago

        Okay, curious though, was the word frunk a thing back when the old 1960’s VW Bug cars were a thing?

        I dunno, but the word trunk predates the automobile by quite a long time, so why a special word for a front trunk vs a back trunk? Why isn’t there a special word for back trunk like brunk?

        If you’re playing an RPG such as Diablo and find a treasure trunk, do you call it a treasure frunk if it’s in the front of a dungeon?

        Didn’t think so. Frunk just sounds stupid.

        Edit: Yeah yeah, I get that RPG’s typically call them treasure chests, but the words chest and trunk mean basically the same thing, a lockable box/storage area to store and protect your valuables/belongings.

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialBannedEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          Unfortunately, my usual resource for this kind of thing (google ngrams) is being foiled by the word ‘frunk’ being used in a lot of other weird contexts, even well back into the 1800’s.

          https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+frunk&year_start=1900&year_end=2022&corpus=en-US&smoothing=3

          So I’m not exactly sure who coined the term in reference to front trunks in cars or when they did it. But it is absolutely something you’ll see in non-Tesla cars.

        • korazail@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          I might be too late for this to see any traction, but I support storage in the front of a vehicle being called a chest, and storage in the back being a trunk… I think this beats frunk/trunk/brunk.

          A bus or plane, where cargo is beneath the passengers and accessed from the side is clearly, then, the holster.

          Canteen goes on the trunk, gun in the holster, and bandolier on the chest. Western.

  • AliOski@feddit.nl
    2·
    12 days ago

    Don’t need to pretend, overused joke. Call me nuts, but the Cybertruck looks pretty cool to me. My only critique about it is the road safety.

    • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      My daughter loves them. There’s a pink one that we sometimes see and she goes nuts over it (and, mind, we never did the whole “pink is for girls” thing–she just LOVES pink). So I can’t outright call them ugly because I love my kid.

      I’m convinced that it looks better in every color but standard. Also the front isn’t too bad. Neither is the profile. But all angles of the rear of the truck are big, boxy, just not good looking (in my opinion). But I’m willing to say that I appreciate someone being willing to produce a vehicle that maintains the concept look and actually tries to look different. There’s a lot wrong with the CyberTruck; the exterior design is probably about the least of it.