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After years of delay, Fisker Auto has cleared one final hurdle with the achievement of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions approval, and the first cash for a Fisker Karma has traded hands. How much gas those wealthy Karma buyers will save is still a mystery, but not for much longer. UPDATE Mystery over. More »
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Fisker, the plug-in hybrid startup that's won $828.7 million in government and private backing but delayed production of its Karma plug-in three times, has managed to assemble the first Karma commercial. If it's on video, it must be real, right? More »
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Alongside Vice President Joe Biden, Fisker Automotive executives announced today they'll buy GM's now shuttered Wilmington, Delaware assembly plant to develop "Project NINA," an "affordable, family-oriented plug-in hybrid sedan." So, basically, GM's selling Fisker a factory to develop a Volt-killer. More »
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Fisker will be unveiling a new concept at the Detroit Auto Show, the romantically named Sunset. What is it? More »
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It looks like Henrik Fisker and company are asking to have the Tesla suit arbitrated in Orange County. As you're all well aware, neither Fisker nor Tesla are actually making cars but are instead just suing the crap out of each other over various charges (here's an explanation of the Tesla and Fisker suit). Long story short, Tesla claims Fisker stole info when designing a sedan for Tesla. Oh, by the way, here's Fisker's Karma Hybrid sedan. Who is right and who is wrong? Who cares at this point? More »
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It's been nearly a year since a promising little coupe rolled into the Geneva show floodlights. Back then, the Henrik Fisker-designed Artega GT was just a rolling chassis with Porsche cues atop, accompanied by promises of 300-horsepower VW engines, light weight and a fair asking price. We saw it again in Frankfurt, where its builders said it was on track for a 2008 release. Of course, by production we mean only 500 will be built per year at around a $100,000 a pop (€75,000). For that you get an aluminum space-frame chassis and carbon-fiber reinforced body, which, plus its 3.6-liter V6 (with six-speed DSG automanual), adds up to only 2,425 pounds. Colin Chapman, call the front desk. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=352670&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday, we saw designer-coachbuilder Henrik Fisker striding through the SEMA crowds. Dressed in ultra-European finery, the portly, blond Dane looked like Lord Mountbatten at a Good Charlotte concert. Now, the company that bears his name has released an image of the car that may redefine what we think about hybrids. It's a joint project of Fisker Coachbuild and Quantum Fuel Systems, a luxe gas-electric hybrid Fisker says will debut at the coming Detroit Auto show in January. The price will be under $100,000, and it'll be the height of a 911 with the interior space of a Mercedes S-Class. And potentially, according to this official rendering, the face of a Fisker. [Motor Authority] More »
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It looks like a lost cousin of the Porsche Cayman, though it's powered by a Volkswagen V6. It's the Artega GT, a star of the Geneva auto show this past March. Word is it's due for market release. The Artega was designed by Henrik Fisker, who penned the Aston Martin DB9 and in 2005 formed a company that rebodies BMW 6-Series and Mercedes SL models as super-high-end luxury cars under the Fisker marque. Now, German magazine Automobilwoche reports sales of the Artega GT, by German auto supplier Paragon, will commence in summer of 2008. Weighing under 2500 pounds and powered by VW's 3.6-liter FSI V6, the cars will get from zero to 60 in around five seconds. The first production run will of 500 units, each selling for 75,000 Euro, or around $103,000. [Automobilwoche via World Car Fans] More »
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