You don’t/won’t see many of these on the roads…

Yeah with a lift kit, some 33’s, and lightbars from harbor freight. Oh and lambo doors, ‘cuse why not. Paint is up to you, however I recommend something solid, like marble or granite stone wrap. Yeah. Ultima!

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facts_my_guyy@reddit

Don't forget the guns

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No-Tonight-5937@reddit

Proudly concealed beneath the drivers seat. Of course.

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Then-Possibility-165@reddit

HAHAHA😂🤣 One THOUSAND likes and nearly 100 comments!!! What AI engine is driving this?

Someone, please, a human, respond?

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2ManySpliffs@reddit (OP)

I’m the OP, so what?

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Then-Possibility-165@reddit

That was in 24 hours😂🤣🙄

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ScottaHemi@reddit

wait fisker died???

again???

RIP i guess. the Atlantic? SUV here wasn't a bad looking car.

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wisent42@reddit

One of my coworkers has a fiskar suv

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MissedYourJoke@reddit

Rich Rebuilds! Here’s your next ones!

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TheHrethgir@reddit

He already got one.

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MrCrix@reddit

And it's also a brick lol

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eddyb66@reddit

A whole episode to disengage the parking break.

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GalacticGatorz@reddit

*brake

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eddyb66@reddit

Lol spellchecker.

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GalacticGatorz@reddit

Gimme a break 😅

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A_Sock_Under_The_Bed@reddit

*brake

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GalacticGatorz@reddit

Broke?

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i_am_ghostman@reddit

No, it’s broken, so this is spelled right lol

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MissedYourJoke@reddit

That’s why I said “your next ones!” as in, add more bricks to the fleet.

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throwawayproblems198@reddit

Does Rich actually fix stuff or just replace parts and hope?

Its why I went off him back when,

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SolarOandM@reddit

Wait, how else does fixing stuff work?

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icybowler3442@reddit

I’m guessing they mean Diagnosing the problem thoroughly and replacing only what needs to be replaced instead of replacing parts until it’s fixed.

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throwawayproblems198@reddit

Well, he started fixing and replacing stuff, then he just seemed to drop it off at his shop, and come back when its fixed.

I wanted more technicals.

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icybowler3442@reddit

That’s even worse than throwing parts at something. I haven’t watched Rich, but it’s why I stopped watching Tavarish- he was acquiring projects but not working on them, and I completely lost interest.

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lumia920yellow@reddit

manufacture all the parts yourself

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TSiArt92@reddit

That's what Satan (dealership) does. Oh your transmission is bad in reverse, let's replace it for total of $9k parts and labor.

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atlasdependent@reddit

The reason dealers don't rebuild transmissions or engines under customer pay is because the labor rate is so high that it will usually be as expensive or more to rebuild rather than replace. And then if you have problems down the road it comes back on the tech who did the work instead of filing a warranty claim with the manufacturer for bad parts. Just doesn't make fiscal sense for the dealer, the tech, or the customer. Now the labor rate (and parts markup) being so high is another conversation, because that money is certainly not going to the technicians.

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basec0m@reddit

Weird, I actually saw one in person today in Fullerton California

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ReignInSpuds@reddit

That is exactly where I'd expect one, tbh. Or Irvine.

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Nippon-Gakki@reddit

I saw one in San Diego not long ago. I’d be driving the crap out of it if I paid full price and knew it’s going to be yard art as soon as it’s got any major problem.

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Mattr567@reddit

Tons of them around SD!

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btw94@reddit

I own one, not a brick yet!

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Detroiter_1017@reddit

Where is this and is it possible to buy one if needed (research purpose)

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2ManySpliffs@reddit (OP)

I don’t know if they are for sale, or what. They are stored behind the “LA City Cars” used lot on N. Hacienda Blvd. in West Covina, California, but I’m not sure if they belong to that trader or not. They sell a ton of used Teslas etc. so maybe…

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wintertash@reddit

I live in Portland Oregon and I see at least a couple of these a week.

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Brosie-Odonnel@reddit

I see one frequently in the Oregon City area.

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codynorthwest@reddit

Same. Saw a dark blue one yesterday

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FroznBones@reddit

I think I’m just seeing the same one on 26W over and over again. It’s the groundhog Fisker

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WyrdMagesty@reddit

Same, I was confused why they were considered rare. See them all the time. There's one that parks on the road on Glisan and 82nd by the Burgerville. See it almost every day.

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gradomyster@reddit

there's one floating around Bend too

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XROOR@reddit

Having it look like an Isuzu Axiom might be one reason……

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bonerJR@reddit

I loved the car and the idea for this one and am very sad to see these like this. What a waste of our planets limited materials.

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Heya93@reddit

I’m gonna buy one and put a Briggs and Stratton in it.

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westsideriderz15@reddit

Harbor freight predator is the new new..

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incindia@reddit

K24 the world

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jj999125@reddit

Just ls swap it

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testing123-testing12@reddit

I was thinking K swap. Not sure if there's enough room for an LS and a trans tunnel but a 4 cylinder FWD should be fine?

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TheRedundancy@reddit

The Ocean is way too heavy for a K Series, probably even with the batteries removed

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HotSeatGamer@reddit

Never understood the attraction to Fiskers. Always seemed they were riding Tesla's coat-tails of EV hype while being overpriced, low volume, and known to have critical design flaws. I don't know why they kept getting funding as long as they did.

And the Karma was ugly!

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Greedy_Effort5653@reddit

Save you money for a boat instead!

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ikoniq93@reddit

I JUST saw one at work the other day with in-transits. My immediate thought was “I wonder what fool made that financial mistake.”

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BlueProcess@reddit

I wouldn't want that. They failed, in part, because the vehicle was so bad. You'd be likely to have constant problems, no support, and no replacement parts. It's someone's future collectors item. But only if you have big-big disposable income.

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Ancient-Watch-1191@reddit

I would buy 4 (exactly the same) for 4 grand they go currently at auction.

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BlueProcess@reddit

Then what?

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Ancient-Watch-1191@reddit

Plenty of spare parts, then you got a roomy, silent, comfortable vehicle for 16k that will last for decades.

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CDNChaoZ@reddit

But aren't Fiskers heavily software dependent? So unless they open source the stuff and you or someone else is willing to tinker with it, it seems like a terrible idea.

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Nippon-Gakki@reddit

Holly and a few others are selling standalone motor and BMS controllers now. You’d at least w able to make it drive that way. The rest of the car might be a bit more of a challenge.

I do think that $4k is a great deal for all the donor parts for another project. The battery pack alone would be easily worth it even if you end up using Tesla drive components since they are much more well known.

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Ancient-Watch-1191@reddit

The battery pack is indeed at least worth that price, if not double the amount.

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MovkeyB@reddit

you have 3 spare parts*

better hope none of the issues come back a 4th time.

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perldawg@reddit

who you gonna sell the spare parts to, the other 6 people that had the save idea as you?

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BlueProcess@reddit

If you have the tools and skills and can tolerate the downtime.

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OperationMobocracy@reddit

I wonder if it has a bunch of phone home time bombs in the software. Any of these modern cars (maybe ICE ones, too) seem to phone home constantly. But with the electric ones, I wonder what happens if they can't ever phone home.

I'd expect that the engineers would target "just keep working" in the design. It's not like if you drove one into a rural area or an underground garage with no cell coverage they stop working. But who knows what bug you'd find if it couldn't phone home ever.

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Winjin@reddit

I don't know what car is this (I'm not in the US btw) but I feel like those are only good as source for project builds, where you rip out the whole brain part and replace it with some open-source programmable brain.

Honestly the modern cars scare me. As someone who works in IT and has been around computers basically my whole life, watching how the programmers work and even worse watching how techbros and IT leadership operates, I really don't want a smart car.

I am thinking I will probably be driving a dumb one as long as I can, and once it's financially impossible, I will get one of these converted old cars that have like Tesla motors and an open-source controller for it.

Even better if we could make it PHEV. Have an old-school small ICE that can power the generator and charge the car as it rides for basically unlimited mileage and like 1.4 liter per 100 km range (that's 156mpg)

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BlueProcess@reddit

You could get around that. You'd just have to spoof your own car lol

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CoolAbdul@reddit

The vehicle is excellent. The software is bad.

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OhMyGod_Zilla@reddit

OOF. That’s sad to see. There’s a Fisker building maybe 5 minutes from where I live and it’s permanently closed, but there are a bunch of cars just sitting there in the parking lot, untouched. Idk if they’re going to be towed anywhere or what but…

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FifthEon@reddit

What car is this?

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helloiisjason@reddit

There's one here in Juneau AK of all places

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idkcrisp@reddit

Fiskers don’t make noise when they start

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_B_Little_me@reddit

Most EVs don’t. They are always on like your phone is.

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SaysNiceOften@reddit

no they aren’t

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DanR5224@reddit

Car electronics stay "on" even after you turn them off. ICE vehicles do vacuum tests on the EVAP system hours after you park. Lots of newer cars have proximity detection for unlocking them-doesn't work unless a module is on. Don't forget about the EVs with the built-in security cameras.

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Huefamla@reddit

it's a reference from a song lyric

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PM_ME_UR_SELF@reddit

Just so you know

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DC-3Purple@reddit

Yall are being Childish.

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highrisedrifter@reddit

There's a family up the road form me who have one of the first ones that came off the line. I wonder how they are feeling.

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MrViloria007@reddit

Actually saw one the other day, while I was pushing carts at Costco!

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Upbeat-Armadillo1756@reddit

I saw one the other day as well. The only one I’ve seen and I had to look up what they looked like afterwards to confirm that it wasn’t just a weird Kia or something

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officialsanic@reddit

Give me one

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9061yellowriver@reddit

Somebody should buy em, send em back to Magna Steyr and have them rebuilt properly before re-releasing them to the public.

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mistsoalar@reddit

Does anyone know how Karma automotive doing? Some early Reveros are coming down at/below $30k mark

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adultdaycare81@reddit

Doesn’t the software become “Open Source” at a certain point? I wouldn’t buy one unless it did

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_Moregone@reddit

I drove by a lot with maybe 20 yesterday in Phoenix. They were clean though. Looked ready to sell.

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Sharpymarkr@reddit

Saw one at a car show in the Midwest USA a month or two ago. Was the first I had seen a Fisker in person.

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Ghost_of_Akina@reddit

I see them fairly regularly in Tampa. It's a shame too because I think ot's actually a decent EV. The litany of software issues just couldn't be fixed fast enough and Fisker isn't exactly a household name for Quality after the Karma.

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dreamweaver1313@reddit

Seen a semi load of them going east on i-70 through Ohio on Friday

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Roboticpoultry@reddit

I would’ve thought they’d at least out last Vinfast…

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SaysNiceOften@reddit

i actually saw one driving on the highway two days ago

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maximumchuck@reddit

I live in the Bay Area and there was a surprisingly large amount of these driving around when the company first started releasing them. I always thought it was strange how so many regular people would be willing to buy such an early production car from a brand new company when there are multiple models from established companies they could have chosen.

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