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Another beautiful, impractically expensive e-car
The 161mph [motortrend.com] $129,000 [autoblog.com] Fisker [fiskerinc.com] Emotion [topgear.com]:
Henrik Fisker’s new electric car project is finally here, unveiled in full at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Get past those show-stopping ingress points however, and you find something that’ll give a certain electric car company something to chew on…
We must first discuss the looks. Henrik – famously responsible for the design of the Aston Martin Vantage and BMW Z8 – clearly hasn’t lost his touch. There are elements of his former hybrid motor, the Karma, and everything has been sculpted in the name of the tech underneath.
It’s built from carbon fibre and aluminium, and features elements designed around the LiDARs dotted at the front and rear of the car. The door handles are flush, operated via your smartphone. It’s big, too: 5m in length and 1.4m in height, around the size of a BMW 5 Series. The wheels are similarly huge: 24s as standard, on low rolling-resistance Pirellis.
Sulky Dutch model not included with the base model.
