I'm surprised there aren't any dealerships in California (yet). Fisker is from Irvine, I believe, and there are plenty of greenies with lots of loose change for toys such as this in the Bay Area and SoCal.
And to those of you who think Tesla is a failure, know that their Menlo Park store can't stock 'em fast enough, and I saw roughly one a day when I was home for a month on winter break. The company itself still isn't out of the woods yet, but they've delivered a couple hundred cars by now, so you can't claim that they're peddling vaporware anymore.
How much capital investment does an existing multi-make dealer really need to front for this? It's not like they are building a standalone Fisker dealer, banking on the vehicles coming to fruition.
It's like they said, "we have an existing infrastructure, and we can cram one of your cars somewhere in the showroom, when and if you send us one...sure, we'll be a dealer."
@smalleyxb122: Sounds like a much better strategy than say, building a bunch of standalone dealerships for cars which are already completely sold out and/or have no hope of existing.
I'm opening the world's first unicorn dealership. Through an amazing process of finding unicorn DNA in mosquitos covered in sap, we have successfully cloned unicorns, and now can deliver you a unique pet for your brat. Now accepting $25,000 deposits through Paypal.
@SirNotAppearing: Don't forget to ask the government for a bailout because of how important your magical technology is! After all, it's the future of horse-and-buggy technology.
Ugh. This must have been in a long term planning type phase, because the economy is no better here than in most other places at the moment.
Still we do have a surprising number of exotic dealerships around here considering PDX is fairly small for a "big city" and a lot more sedate than most big cities as well.
I have seen a couple of GTs' and Ferraris', lots of Maseratis' but no Lambos and only one Bently (Trailblazer car).
@logruszed: This is also a center for hard-core Lefties and tree huggers with too much money. It might just be the perfect spot to sell a few over-priced, high-performance electrics.
@TR3-A: Well if I had to choose between seeing a new group of ridiculous vehicles on the road to replace the F-350's and other retarded trucks driven by "hard-core righties" (you know, because you really need a farming truck to get from LO to the Blazer games) I guess I'd go with a quiet electric vehicle.
If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face was starred
If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face was unstarred
Is there a particular reason you keep showing the same exact photos of the booth professionals? You really need to diversify. If I didn't know any better I would think you only went there to look a cars.
Excellent list! Not quite the order I would put things in, but you're pretty spot on with the cars/vehicles included. Thank you very much for leaving out all the hideously bloated crossovers.
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And to those of you who think Tesla is a failure, know that their Menlo Park store can't stock 'em fast enough, and I saw roughly one a day when I was home for a month on winter break. The company itself still isn't out of the woods yet, but they've delivered a couple hundred cars by now, so you can't claim that they're peddling vaporware anymore.
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/ may I suggest a special "flannel edition"?
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Okay, I exaggerate, but the nose is awful, and it looks like it's sagging in the middle. Reminds me a little of Denise Richards...
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Seriously, I think that is going to cut heavily into sales.
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Sometimes you have to pay a little extra for a union-built Unicorn that will be overweight and overly safe and, therefore, no fun.
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Still we do have a surprising number of exotic dealerships around here considering PDX is fairly small for a "big city" and a lot more sedate than most big cities as well.
I have seen a couple of GTs' and Ferraris', lots of Maseratis' but no Lambos and only one Bently (Trailblazer car).
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I saw a Tesla parked DOTS this weekend.
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Oh, wait. This is about CARS we want to DRIVE.
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Now if only I could take a booth pro for a ride...