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.
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.
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.