Nice. If it turns out to be true.

Stealth Mode? sounds fun.

Not a bad car.

More pics please.

I dub thee "The Saggin Wagen"

Stealth mode is also good for illegal parking.

Also... why is the "no it won't" needle on my probability gauge dancing around so much?

There's just something about the lines on this car that really touch me. Deep down, in a funny way, that makes me feel a little guilty and a little dirty. It's got a kind of Ferrari Scaglietti-meets-vintage-Jag look that makes me want one, regardless of what powers it. It's so low and slinky. I could do without the buldging wheel arches and the handlebar-moustach grille, but... I really hope this makes it to production. Not that I could afford one, but this just just such a beautiful car.

Look at the interior!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! Pop.

Why do I see this on an ebay listing 20 years hence, in a sea of misspelt hyperbole?

@3wheeler: the steering wheel's kind of tacky, but i don't see much else to dislike?

Looks more like C5 Corvette with Camaro influence to me, but those pictures are bad, and I can't see the nose. A lot of new luxury cars coming out in 2 years. Isn't that what happened right before the Great Depression? I gots d'em Willies.

I wonder how much it weighs?

@Stoatmaster: I'm guessing in 20 years time this will be a real Fisker-upper.

80K is for the compressed air driven version me thinks.

Quick, turn off all the lights. The top of the dash is melting!

"We envision a world where, when people think of 'Fisker,' they think 'performance automobiles.' Well, probably they'll first think 'expensive scissors,' but THEN they'll think 'performance automobiles'"

Those 18"+ rims and wide tires are going to do wonders for it's MPG.

This is one of the dumbest-looking pieces of crap I have ever seen. The Homer is more attractive.

needs a Hemi.

@camp6ell: Look at those dials man!!! Its Aston Martin Lagonda meets Tron, meets Computer game from the 80s. Bar Graphs! All in faux Dial tubes because they can't think of anything else!!!The seats are boring, and the center tunnel too fussy (but not for a 'technology packed' car, which of course must look Space 1999, or Star Trex). B.A.L.O.N.Y. All for $80K. Riiiiiight. Is this the British sportscar industry coming stateside with 'new brands'....

@3wheeler: I think it's pretty cool looking, it's definitely different though. I didn't realize Fisker was a British sportscar though, nor did I realize balogna/baloney could be spelled that way. :(

@3wheeler: I was thinking more KITT meets Motorala RAZR!

Memories of Bill Devin!

"We here at Fisker take design very seriously... Our thought process is: Step 1, take an existing luxury car. Step 2, stretch it into ugly proportions. Step 3, it's Peanut-Butter Jelly Time!

still dont know what the guts to this thing is
but the space between the front wheel and the A pillar makes me nervous..like if you hit a speed bump just right ...BAM!!snap into a Slim Jim!!!!BTW whoever stiched the steering wheel needs to be fired ..my grandma could have done a better job and shes dead

Future press releases:
- October, 2009 - Karma Hybrid Delayed for 6 months due to emissions testing
- March, 2010 - Karma Hybrid delayed 4 months for safety testing
- July, 2010 - Karma Hybrid delayed as CEO sacked
- September, 2010 - Fisker Motors sued by Tesla Motors Probate Lawyers
- December 2010 - Transmission problems delay Karma Hybrid; first delivers in 2010
- March 2011 - Suzuki no longer to supply Hayabusa motors for Karma Hybrid
- Kleiner Perkins announces it is no longer funding Karma Hybrid project...

The picture of this on the front page of Autoblog makes it look like it has a handlebar moustache. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Overall though, it's an attractive car, more so if it's claims are remotely connected to reality.

"Stealth mode" == Sneak into the driveway after your late-night tryst without waking up the spouse asleep inside the house... lotsa folks would pay extra for a car that can do that trick...!

I love it. Especially because it makes the big car producers look like amateurs.

want one. now. please, santa, i promise i'll be good! i will quit beating my wife if i have to!!!

@bmoredlj: Are you on crack?

@3wheeler: Apparently they're American. I thought they were German. There you go.

@sos10: Amen.

@3wheeler: This is one more piece of evidence toward a theory of mine that American companies ignore the interior design of autos, possibly outsourcing them to chimps or lower mammals. Someone should really drop them a memo that the inside is the only part of the car you're actually going to use...

@DoctorNine: The wheelwells look new Camaro (the weakest part of the design on both cars) and the rear end makes me think of a contemporary Auston. Regardless, it's just so long and low and curvy... I don't want to drive it, I just want to *lick* it.

Nice if you like ripoff from the MotoRazor. Still it will be good for the big industry makers to have a little competition. Makes them get creative.

@Stoatmaster: Make it ten years. And all caps.

Well done, Fisker!

Not to change the topic, but, folks, here you have it: the car Cadillac should be building if their automotive designers weren't stuck in CAD Class 102: How to Make Rectangles.

Fisker builds beautiful modern cars on competent running gear, and Cadillac builds "art & science" sheet metal boxes on equally competent hardware. Fisker will charge astronomical prices but sell out and Cadillac will offer year-end closeout sales. Why?

Styling AND tangible quality matters. Fisker offers both in endless quantities. Hell, even Lexus is starting to have sheetmetal that, while not my cup of tea, can be distinguished from Mad Max, while still keeping quality high. Cadillac has finally upped the quality, but it's styling has not attracted a larger chunk of the market. Lexus has stolen half of Caddy's market share from under GM's nose!

Word to Cadillac: hire Fisker as coachbuilders. "Body by Fisker" would sell much better than your current "Body by Led Zeppelin" automobiles do.

I thought this website would have more educated readers. Haven't you all ever heard of the other Fiskers? Do you guys not know who the guy is?

First go to www.fiskercb.com. You can go buy those cars now. And they're impeccable... I saw a bunch of them out on Rodeo Drive during the Concurs d'Elegance on Father's Day last year. Believe me, they're well finished cars.

While I'm also waiting to see what Tesla-esque problems will arise with it, I'm going to be waiting with my name on the pre-order list, 'cause I pre-ordered one earlier today. This car is more pratical than the Tesla, less expensive, and although it can use gas, my guess is I'll probably have to force myself to use the gasoline engine so the gas doesn't go sour more than depending on it to get around.

EIA is estimating that gasoline will average $3.50 this spring. Next year it will be $4, and by the time my number comes due in 2010, gasoline will be $5.00 a gallon and spending $80k on this will seem much smarter than buying a Panamera or Quatraporte. The end of an age is upon us.

Good one, MFCIAM - I wonder if anyone at GM knows how to use curves in a design.

Not too bad, but the jarring point is the window sill line, which looks a bit disjointed and unfinished compared to the nicely-done roofline and side sculpturing. I would have preferred a smooth arc from the side mirrors back to the C pillar. I'm not in love with the grille either, but at least it's more subdued than recent Lincoln concepts.

@my favorite car is a motorcycle: You seriously misremember the Cadillac design heritage prior to the 90s. Cadillacs are all about rectangles and planes! The deVille, Seville, Eldorado I remember are all boxy cars with sharp creases.

You want curves and flow? Get an Infiniti.

@way_down_east: would that be Beziers 101?

Those sneaky mullets, always up to no good.

Is it me, or is "Fisker" close to "Fister". BTW, I know that its a US company, I was likening the failed brand idea to British Sportscars firms genre.

@ Skierpage: Au contraire, mon ami! Take a look: www.lidreamboats.org/Memberscars.html

Sharp Cadillac bodyline creases came in the late 1960's in an effort to lend a bank-vault image in cointrast to the increasingly aerodynamic vehicles that were hitting the market back then. While the RoadRunner was a streamlined rocket, Cadillac went out of their way to make their cars appear architectural and immobile. When one is rich, so the thought was, aerodynamics are irrelevant. By the end of the 1970's, Cadillac became synonymous with "land yacht", abandoning all performance and, sadly, much of its top-notch quality as well.

But go back to the first 50 years of Cadillac's existence, and they were among the biggest AND fastest, most sleek and modern machines on American roads.

These pre-1960 Caddies had a presence that attracts everyone -- they have CLASS. While new Caddy models have dramatically improved the quality and performance, the styling is highly polarizing, to be polite. It's not quite as bad as Bangle, but come on, they will never win any beauty contests...

Corvette-meets-DeLorean look. Who needs education if you can buy top-tech in sleek design? Top-10 if it delivers!