These days, finding a car with a built-in refrigerator, coolbox, or other drink-cooling feature is harder than you might think. While fridges were never a popular option, many more car makers offered them than today. For example, the Ford Flex offered a genuine (if small) refrigerator until the end of its run in the 2019 model year. The Honda Odyssey used to offer a box chilled with air from the vehicle’s HVAC system, but Honda discontinued it a few years ago. Volkswagen used to offer cooled glovebox compartments, but that feature is no longer available. The culprit is probably a lack of demand. Still, supply chain issues during the post-pandemic era and the proliferation of other electricity-hungry features like wireless device charging contribute, too.
Whatever the cause, few brands still offer some sort of refrigeration in the vehicle, and those that do are generally at the luxury end of the spectrum. The most luxurious vehicles on the planet pretty much all come with or offer some type of refrigeration — nearly every vehicle from Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Maybach can be fitted with a champagne cooler or the like.
On the other end of the spectrum, we have the pickup trucks and their drainable bed boxes. These boxes aren’t refrigerators; they allow you to pack them like ice chests for easy bedside beverage (or bait or lunch) enjoyment. Somewhere between the bed boxes and the true fridges, we have the heated/cooled cupholders and HVAC-cooled compartments, which you’ll primarily find in luxury cars. Still, there are more attainable examples.
When the refrigerator, coolbox, or other cooling technology is not standard equipment on a vehicle, we have noted the option or package and its price. All quoted prices include the destination charge.
Here are the cars with built-in fridges, coolboxes, drainable bed boxes, and more. If you want to shop for a used vehicle with one of these options, we’ve included some of those, too. Vehicles are listed in alphabetical order by automaker.
Built-In Refrigerators
1. 2024 Cadillac Escalade
Price With Refrigerator: $113,390
Undeniably large and luxurious, the 2024 Cadillac Escalade is, perhaps surprisingly, among the more affordable vehicles available with a true refrigerator inside. To get it, you need only opt for the Sport Platinum or Premium Luxury Platinum trims and the $700 option to add the front center console fridge, which offers space for six 500-ml bottles. It also has a freezer function, which will cool the compartment to 23 degrees Fahrenheit. Like most in-car refrigerators, this unit only runs when you run the engine but is insulated to help maintain its temperature when stopped.
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2. 2024 Jeep Grand Wagoneer
Price With Refrigerator: $106,440
Powerful, capable, and luxurious in its upper trims, the 2024 Jeep Grand Wagoneer combines people- and cargo-moving with off-road ability and on-road towing capacity — and therefore offers many reasons to need a fridge. To get the fridge, you only need to select the Grand Wagoneer Obsidian or either Series III model, all of which include the fridge standard. Like the Cadillac unit, the Grand Wagoneer’s cooler is in the front center console.
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3. 2024 Land Rover Defender
Price With Refrigerator: $58,875 (Defender 90)
Unsurprisingly, the Land Rover brand offers the most extensive line of built-in refrigerators in the business since their vehicles are all about overlanding with style and substance. The 2024 Land Rover Defender makes it easy to keep your drinks cool on the trail and is surprisingly affordable. The front console-mounted refrigerator requires the $1,000 Comfort and Convenience Pack, available on all Defender models, including the Defender 90, 110, and 130. The Comfort and Convenience Pack includes a cabin lighting system with 10 customizable modes.
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4. 2024 Land Rover Discovery
Price With Refrigerator: $63,775
The 2024 Land Rover Discovery might not look as futuristically rugged as the Defender, but it’s a capable off-roader in its own right and civilized on-road, too. There are two routes to obtain the fridge in the Discovery: You can choose the base model and add the $2,100 Comfort Pack, or you can dive into the fully loaded end of the pool with the Discovery Metropolitan Edition, which includes the fridge and a host of other upgrades. The Comfort Pack includes 4-zone climate control, configurable cabin lighting, a powered inner tailgate, and ionizing cabin air purification. The smaller Discovery Sport doesn’t offer the fridge option.
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5. 2024 Land Rover Range Rover
Price With Refrigerator: $111,645
As iconic as the Defender, the 2024 Land Rover Range Rover is a luxury mainstay, especially if you want that luxury also to be ruggedly capable off-road. The front center console fridge in the Range Rover is available on any model or body style with the addition of the $2,270 Comfort Pack (price varies based on trim level). The Range Rover includes electric rear side-window blinds, 4-zone climate control, twin-blade sun visors, an enhanced version of the ionizing cabin air purifier, and a fridge.
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6. 2024 Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Price With Refrigerator: $87,365
As the smaller, sleeker, sportier alternative to the Range Rover, the 2024 Land Rover Range Rover Sport offers a more street-friendly vibe with just as much elegance and a healthy dose of off-road ability. The $2,190 Comfort Pack, available on all trims, brings the front center console fridge compartment, laminated front and rear side glass for better noise and UV blocking, 4-zone climate control, twin-blade sun visors, and the top-spec cabin air purifying system.
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7. 2024 Mercedes-Maybach EQS-Class SUV
Price With Refrigerator: $182,150
In the 2024 Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, we come to the other sort of in-car refrigerator, located in the rear seat and meant for a different adventure —although it does come with a disclaimer to obey local laws. Whatever you might be enjoying in the back seat of your EQS SUV, however, you’ll have to tick the box for the $1,100 option, or you’ll be limited to heated and cooled cupholders, which come with the $0 Executive Rear Seat Package. If you’d like to include a pair of handcrafted silver champagne flutes with magnetic holders by German silversmiths Robbe & Berking, that’ll be an additional $800.
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8. 2024 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class
Price With Refrigerator: $204,900
If you’d prefer the non-electric sedan take on Maybach excess, the 2024 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class might be the one for you. To get the fridge in the S-Class, no matter whether you choose the S 580 or the range-topping S 680, you’ll have to go all-in for a $4,300 package that includes the rear-seat fridge as well as the handcrafted Robbe & Berking silver champagne flutes. You can also add heated and cooled cupholders, folding tray tables, and a 4-seat cabin configuration for $6,000 with the Executive Rear Seat Package Plus.
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9. 2024 Mercedes-Maybach GLS-Class
Price With Refrigerator: $176,600
The 2024 Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 SUV combines opulence with ability and space, and while you’ll certainly pay for it, it also delivers on the luxury front. The Maybach GLS’s fridge is a standalone option ($1,100), like with the Maybach EQS SUV, and you can acquire the silver champagne flutes for $800.
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Cars With Coolboxes or Heated/Cooled Cupholders
1. 2024 BMW X7
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $82,895
The 2024 BMW X7 has heated and cooled cupholders by default but isn’t available with an actual fridge or an HVAC-cooled compartment.
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2. 2024 Land Rover Range Rover Velar
Price With Coolbox: $64,305
Like its fellow Range Rover models, the 2024 Land Rover Range Rover Velar’s fridge option comes with a Comfort Pack (in this case, $1,530), but unlike those models, it’s not an actual fridge. Instead, the Velar uses the vehicle’s HVAC system to duct cool air into the glovebox, helping to keep items cool but not entirely functioning as a true refrigerator.
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3. 2024 Lexus GX
Price With Coolbox: $69,420
Closely related to the Toyota Land Cruiser, the 2024 Lexus GX also gets an HVAC-cooled center console box. It’s a $170 standalone option on the more off-roady Overtrail and Overtrail+ trims.
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4. 2024 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $99,650
Heated and cooled cupholders are standard equipment on the AMG GT 4-door.
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5. 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $63,960
In the GLE, heated and cooled cupholders are standard equipment.
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6. 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $88,150
Heated and cooled cupholders are standard equipment in the GLS.
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7. 2024 Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $118,450
With the 2024 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, heated and cooled cupholders are standard equipment.
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8. 2024 Mercedes-Maybach EQS-Class SUV
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $181,050
The 2024 Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV gets heated and cooled cupholders as part of the no-cost Executive Rear Seat Package Plus, heated rear armrests, folding tables, and a 4-seat cabin configuration.
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9. 2024 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class
Price With Cooled Cupholders: $199,450
If you decide not to get the fridge in the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, fear not: heated and cooled cupholders are standard equipment.
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10. 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
Price With Coolbox: $67,945
The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser includes an HVAC-cooled center console box as standard equipment on the First Edition trim, or you can add it as part of the $4,600 Premium Package on other trims. This package includes a 14-speaker JBL audio system, power moonroof, wireless device charging, and various tech and driver assistance upgrades. The coolbox isn’t available on the 1958 trim.
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Trucks With Drainable Bed Boxes
1. 2024 Honda Ridgeline
Price With Drainable Bed Box: $41,145
Standard across the 2024 Honda Ridgeline range, the In-Bed Trunk is the equivalent of an 82-quart ice chest stashed under the bed’s floor. It’s lockable and has built-in grocery bag hooks, cargo dividers, and a drain plug.
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2. 2024 Hyundai Santa Cruz
Price With Drainable Bed Box: $28,275
Like the Ridgeline, the 2024 Hyundai Santa Cruz includes an under-bed lockable, drainable storage container that doubles as a cooler.
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3. 2025 Ram 1500
Price With Drainable Bed Box: $63,415
The 2025 Ram 1500’s lockable, drainable bed container isn’t under the bed’s floor and is not standard on all models. Instead, the RamBox is on the side of the bed. Ram includes it on 1500 Limited, Limited Longhorn, and Tungsten models and it’s available as a package option on the Laramie ($1,395) and Rebel ($1,490) trims.
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Cars Available With Third-Party Refrigerator From the Dealer
A wide range of Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota, and Lexus vehicles are available with dealer-supplied and installed third-party travel refrigerators. While these are not as cleanly integrated as built-in units, they are considerably larger, more capable fridges, and they can also be removed from the vehicle, making them ideal for extended camping trips or other longer-term uses. Off-roading-focused brands like Dometic or ARB typically supply these fridges. Some of the cars compatible with these fridges include:
Used Cars With Built-in Fridges and Coolers
As mentioned above, several mainstream models used onboard cooling options. Here are a few great options for a used mainstream car, truck, SUV, or minivan that offers an in-car fridge, cooled cupholders, or bedside storage. Remember that with some used models, your dealership may be able to install one of the third-party fridges mentioned above. –Allyson Harwood
1. 2010-2016 Ford Flex
Price Range: $8,100-$16,000
The Ford Flex is a boxy, practical 3-row vehicle with a minivan’s step-in height and an SUV’s style. A refrigerated second-row console was an option until the 2016 model year. According to Ford, it “can chill up to seven 12-ounce cans, four half-liter bottles or two 20-ounce bottles to 41 degrees Fahrenheit; the freeze mode drops to 23 degrees Fahrenheit.” The fridge was an option for the 2010-2016 Limited and 2011-2012 Titanium models. You can also look for the coolbox in 2010-2019 Lincoln MKT EcoBoost and Reserve models.
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2. 2011-2017 Honda Odyssey
Price Range: $9,200-$22,000
One of the best family cars on the market, the Honda Odyssey is user-friendly, comfortable, and reliable. For 10 years, it was available in a cooler box. The cooler box isn’t a refrigerator or freezer. Instead, the cool box uses cold air from the air conditioner to keep cool drinks cool. The feature was initially standard in the 2011 Odyssey EX-L, Touring, and Touring Elite trim levels and was available until the 2017 model year. If you also want the onboard vacuum cleaner, look for a 2014-2017 Touring Elite.
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3. 2022-2023 Toyota Tacoma Trail Edition
Price Range: $36,000-$40,000
For two model years, Toyota offered a Trail Edition of the Tacoma. Based on the SR5, this 4-wheel-drive Double Cab has an inch more ground clearance and a locking differential. It also has TRD-sourced skidplates. But what’s most important for this story is that there’s insulated storage for drinks on the driver’s side of the bed.
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4. 2009-2017 Volkswagen Tiguan
Price Range: $5,400-$16,000
Volkswagen has you covered if you’re looking for a vehicle with a cooled compartment. They had a feature that let you choose when to allow cool air from the A/C system into the glovebox. Turn a dial inside the glovebox, and it gets a wee bit frosty in there. This clever feature came standard on the Tiguan compact SUV from 2009 to 2017 — and the short-lived carryover 2018 Tiguan Limited — plus the Touareg, Jetta, Passat, CC, Eos, Golf GTI, and Golf R.
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