Cool? Yes.

It’s beautiful and appears to be in great shape. I’m even a sucker for that “EcoChic” thing, as I’m working to consume fewer animal products and frequently find myself looking for “cruelty free” and/or “made without animal products”. My favorite Dodgers cap is made of recycled water bottles, FFS.

“at the crossovers debut event earlier this week.”

This is the only feature I want from GM, for now and forever.

Wow, 62% NP at the time of this writing...if memory serves, some of these had a “spontaneous combustion” issue.

You know it’s a big gamble. On one hand as if anything bespoke goes wrong or if you can’t figure something out yourself it’s gonna be hard or impossible to fix yet at under $30k it’s a very unique car that probably has a lot of miles left in it before things go south. If it was to be a second or third car in the fleet…

A unique car with a unique interior with a unique drivetrain that will probably be difficult to service once the battery goes belly up.

But you know what? Once that happens we know this car is LS-swappable, and you still have one of the more interesting cars on the road.

NP. 

How would one get this thing serviced?

I drove one (a 2012 EcoSport) for a summer, and it was a good -not great- car. The only complaint I could find is that the performance never lived up to the aesthetic; you expect a car that looks this good to be a marvel in all aspects, but the technical execution, whether it was the handling or the slow infotainment,…

Slower and less efficient than it needed to be, the only thing the Karma brought to the table was its sleeker-than-most-sedans body. It was impossible to make a value proposition at its six figure price. At $30k, it starts to make sense. Not in an absolute sense, but if that were all that mattered, we’d all be driving…

This car is damn sexy in person, and the only hybrid I would ever put in my garage. I’m in with NP. Now GM, look and see what you get when you style a car and not design it by the accounting department.

I really liked these cars. They looked amazing. I realize I’m not chic enough to own one. I’m a jeans and t-shirt guy. My whole outfit cost ~$50 (including the shoes.) This Fisker belongs in the hands of a stylish owner, someone who’d spend $50 on a t-shirt. A fool with money. That’s the buyer for this car.

“he also did the OG X5, but that’s not so pretty”

In practice though, that probably means Ferrari Challenge or Porsche Cup rather than Spec Miata or Lemons. 

At 72 I don’t see him using this car again. If he didn’t sell it now he would die with it in a shed somewhere under a sheet and his kids (who clearly have no interested in the family business or this thing wouldn’t have been up for sale) would sell it for even less because it would need totally rebuilt from sitting in…

Ive often wondered about using a top fuel dragster fot this. Couldn’t they re-gear the rear end and leave the foot on the gas another second or two? They are already at 330+ in less than 4 seconds in 1000ft. What about doing half mile on a preped runway?

I can see Mecum doing the ole “This will bring a fortune, Danny. It’ll make a mint. We’ll put it in the circular, get some press, and it will go for millions. Just list it with us and sit back and collect the check (minus our 20%, of course).

Pure supply and demand where publicity pumps up the demand—duh.

Not speaking to value, but given that this car set the record less than a year and a half ago, and that plenty of people are still trying for the land speed record for piston driven engines (the last few records were set in 2008, 2010, and 2012), I would say this is exactly how you would build one of these cars today.

Is it a bummer for Danny, no doubt. It’s a great story, but at the end of the day it’s an old race car. Unfortunately, it probably would have gone for just as much before Danny finished what his father had wanted to do. Mickey Thompson’s barnfind streamliner is probably more marketable from a historic perspective than…