What is the correct terminology for the front and rear Boxster trunks?

Using trunk as the"luggage compartment of a motor vehicle" is from 1930. But what about boot and bonnet as applied to a Boxster.

 

They're called front and rear trunks.

 

UK owers sometimes (oftentimes?) refer to the front trunk as the front boot and the rear trunk as the rear boot. There is no bonnet proper (hood in USA terminology).

But here in USA if you use anything other than front trunk or rear trunk you'll get a raised eyebrow, at least.

"Front, bow. Back, stern. If ya don't get it right, squirt, I throw your *** out the little round window on the side."

Sincerely,

Macster.

 

Frunk and trunk are also common. "Boot" and "bonnet" are British terms not often used in the US.

 

Don't believe any of this Sumflow - the correct term (in the Queens English which is wot we is speakin) is Bonnet and Boot.....
Even out here in the Australian outback too !

 

I say hood is in front, trunk is in back - doesn't matter what's underneath it.

 

I tend to agree Stephen.

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Originally Posted by Stephen Tinker

.. is Bonnet and Boot.....

Bonnet for hat, boot for shoe, my Dad drove in Boot & Bonnet sports car club events up in New England. I just wondered how to carry the terminology over to these new German cars. I guess the bonnet stays in front as you suggest.

 

That's hardly official, though. Plenty of US and UK websites call various parts various things.

Porsche's official 986 PET calls it "luggage compartment, front" and "luggage compartment, rear". The large flat pieces of metal that open to provide access to these luggage compartments are referred to simply as "cover". "Boot" is reserved for the rubber cover that goes over various connectors, and "trunk" for cableways.