My loathing of Deloreans has been well documented on the pages of BangShift. So well documented, people occasionally taunt me on Facebook regarding it. That wouldn’t bother me much except for the fact that said individuals are photo contributors here on BangShift…right, Wickam? Anyway, I don’t dislike people who are into Deloreans, just the cars themselves in all of the dumb stainless steel, plastic, and underpowered glory. It seems that the recently marooned Fisker Automotive has taken the mantle for the newest, over promised, over priced, overly weird designed, bizarre car that was supposed to appeal to rich DBs. Let’s have a drink to that!
In a recent story on NbcNews.com, automotive writer Phil LeBeau (English translation: Phil The Beau) reported that the cars which used to sell for more than $103,000 can now be had for less than half of that. That’s right, for about the price of a nicely equipped SS Camaro, you can buy an electric car prone to catching fire, breaking down, and oh, one that has no parts support whatsoever. We’d recommend buying two because if you do that and one burns down, you can take all of the unmelted stuff off of car A to use it for fixing car B when it catches on fire. If both are total loses, you just have to chaulk it up as being a learning experience. Does anyone else feel like this thing was designed by a class of fourth grade art students?
There maybe rescue on the way for Fisker though. The rotting corpse of the company will soon be sold off and Bob Lutz is one of the bidders. Why is this a good thing? We’ve read that Lutz plans on building the cars a little differently than the current configuration by installing GM LS series V8s into where the lame ass electric fire machine…err…motor, used to be. That’s a winner because it would convert the Karma into a cool sounding car that looked like the fourth graders designed it after being fed psychotropic drugs. Psychotropic drugs or a Tony Montana-esque pile of Fun Dip candy crystals to freebase.
We’re not reveling in the failure of the Karma, which was nearly called the smarmy douche-mobile before its name was finalized. Instead we’re hoisting a glass to the fact that a small cadre of owners will hold onto the lifelong idea that the Karma is an exceptionally perfect car. The rest of us will just laugh at those idiots.
Fisker…you blow goats. In honor of that, let’s hoist a berer
The Karma is the modern Delorean but the hyundai veloster is the modern AMC Pacer, look it up
It’d be hilariously funny if so much of our money was not given to them by our completely irresponsible, out of control federal government. The car is stunningly beautiful, but it’s just a shell. Hell, put a real engine in it and you’d have something.
I’d call them idiot greenies, but they sure got a crap load of our money didn’t they? So not so stupid as one might think. The company sinks. You haven’t read of the management’s losing their homes or missing any meals, have you?
Pisses me off to no end…
I’m with you on this one Gary, Fisker is nothing more than Obama Motors.
Brought to you by this corrupt administration, I’m just as pissed off as you are.
a berer?
It should go without saying that I’d support letting Fisker die over the awful rolling cesspool that “Maximum” “LESS” Bob’s apparently Viagra-sotted brain has misconceived.
So you’d be okay with it if he dropped a Coyote V8 in to it instead?
I don’t know.
I’m not used to seeing the Coyote propel a “two-bit piece of junk”** with a grille inspired by a Guy Fawkes/V-for-Vendetta anarchist mask. . . .
**With Apologies to Rudy Wurlitzer, Will Correy, and Monte Hellman(“Two-Lane .Blacktop”)
“Does anyone else feel like this thing was designed by a class of fourth grade art students?”
Hey! My daughter is in fourth grade, please stop insulting her, pick someone your size.
is that a Tesla? Looks like the same amount of govt dole and lack of delivery. Does Fisker equate Tesla in DBSpeak?
I think I’ll bypass the beer and head straight into the 90 proof Kentucky stuff.
Justin Bieber owns one. And, he routinely drives like the douchebag he is in it. Reason enough not to own one.
BTW, le Beau is french for the beautiful. I am betting he picked that name himself.
Thats what i was thinking, even if you out an ls or something else cool in it, youd still be known as the guy with the Justin bieber car
I would drive the snot out of one of these with a supercharged LS under the hood.
Same here!
Tax dollars at work!
I beg to disagree . The TESLA is the 21st century Delorean … with Elon Musk being our John Z DeLorean …. e.g. his cars do not work as advertised .. they’re over priced … dealer back up is all but non existent etc …. The only difference being JZD took the Irish government to the cleaners : whereas Musk has been taking the entirety of the US tax payers as well as the US government to the cleaners .From cradle … to each and every TESLA sold ( to the tune of $7500 per unit sold ).. Oh … and Musk lied about paying back all his government ‘ Loans ‘ . He paid back one …. Loan …not all of them
Mark my words …. once Musk’s allies are out of power … all will be revealed and Elon Musk will be the Lance Armstrong of the automotive world 😉