New Auto Offering From Fisker…..Zzzzzzzz
Apparently Henrik Fisker is back with a new set of promises, claiming that he’ll be unveiling two new cars on November 20, a media day at next month’s LA Auto Show. Back-to-back press conferences are scheduled with no details yet revealed, except for the fact that one of them is predicted to be more of a muscle car than an environmentally sound, fuel-efficient model.
Sorry if I have a bad taste in my mouth here. Even if I thought the world needs a new muscle car (which, of course, I don’t), I still remember my annual sojourns to the Los Angeles Auto Show in the 2000-aughts, and how turned off I was to Fisker’s soon-to-be-aborted range-extended hybrid. Each year, the ropes around the prototype kept us a few feet farther away from actually touching it, and each year the story about the price and release date became even more vague and disenchanting.
I feel a sudden yawn coming on…
Yea.. The Fisker Karma was not a success, but it was a beautiful thing.
You know how I feel about plug-in vehicles… I hate them. The Karma had everything that was wrong with plug-in vehicles (the plug) and nothing that was right… a too-large engine coupled with a too-large electric motor that were all poorly coupled with the drivetrain so as to produce an inefficient vehicle that burned a lot of coal for the first part of the journey then switched to become a gas hog…
But man that is a beautiful car. One pulled up beside me the other day, and it’s such a rare vehicle I didn’t recognize it… So I was just staring in awe, wondering what new high-end luxury sports car had been sculpted like that… and of course it beat me off the line, so I got to see “Karma” before it zoomed on ahead.
Fisker should simply hire himself out to other car companies as an artist who designs beautiful frames, and let the rest of the engineering be done by better teams.
Wow, you are so right about the car’s exterior design. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think almost anyone would say that’s a terrific-looking automobile: http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/21/new-fisker-karma-upgrades-same-design/