Fisker working on a sedan?
Fisker makes some of the most desirable custom cars on the market, reviving the age-old practice of coachbuilding new bodies on existing cars. Recently we reported that Fisker, whose namesake chief was responsible for some beautiful Aston Martins, is considering building their own unique vehicle from the ground up. Now emerging rumors suggest that Fisker may be leaning towards making a sedan.
At this point, it remains unclear if the two plans are self-exclusive, if they'll both go forward independently or if they're one and the same. Being a small outfit, it would seem unlikely for Fisker to take on both projects simultaneously, but the existing SL-based Tramonto convertible and 6-Series-based Latigo made their debut around the same time.
We wouldn't be surprised if Fisker decided to go ahead with a coachbuilt four-door coupe based on the Mercedes CLS. In fact, we're sure we'd be delighted, as hard as it would be to improve on the CLS' gorgeous lines.
[Source: Leftlane News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
jon 9:07PM (12/12/2006)
Really whats desierable about them? A poser exotic car. Why not just leave it a BMW or MB or buy a real exotic car. Fisker is for peple who feal they have to be different but not better and are wiling to pay for it. When they build a real car of there own then they may have acomplished something.
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phil 9:12PM (12/12/2006)
Question, has Fiskar sold or shipped any vehicles? And if so how many?
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Brian Heater 9:23PM (12/12/2006)
Hmm this story is actually from AutoSpies, where the owner personally interviewed Mr Fisker. LLN simply stole the story with no attribution.
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cg 10:10PM (12/12/2006)
hey jon,
What about the Scaglietti and Zagato houses that reworked Ferraris into some of the most desirable cars today? Not to mention clearly forwarding the Ferrari marque in doing so.
Looks like someone is a poser auto enthusiast...
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jon 10:16PM (12/12/2006)
dont beat your self up cg, just because your a poser dosent mean I look down on you. You just need rehab.
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cg 10:33PM (12/12/2006)
Some people need to learn how to spell.
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IMO 10:56PM (12/12/2006)
If you have the chance, push one of this 6-series tuned by Fisker like if it were owned by Avis, and chances are few GT2 or even Ferraris owner will cry.
Im telling you cause i got a M6 in indianapolis red metallic, and my friend who lives a couple of houses down mine, just receive his Latigo (6 series by Fisker) and he beat that hell out of me... twice.
Im just thinking what if Fisker gave the same treatment he gave that 645ci, to my M6?
Now thats best of the best.
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butch 10:54PM (12/12/2006)
you cannot compare Fisk whatever with the Italian coach builders, or any other.
True coach building implies the body was designed and constructed on an individual basis,
this is more like slopping on a a cheap Aston Martin nose on a BMW, doing some interior work and then calling it masterpiece, more like flipping a dog house
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XR 11:20PM (12/12/2006)
Fisker is for the people who think Ferrari is to common and AMG's to main stream. They make 150 of them for a reason. That's it. Remember that there are going to be 300 Bugatti Veryon's.
There were 399 Enzo's built.
150 of each of these two models.
They are more exclusive then some of the worlds most exclusive cars. Thus, that is why they are worth $250,000
PS: IMO, I think they will make a Latigo out of a M6, just like they can make any SL a Tramonto. They just use the SL 55 and the 645 (now the 650) as the "base" models.
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ma dai 11:41PM (12/12/2006)
jon
i totally agree with you. i hate these fake 'coachbuilders'. they do no quality engineering work or put any serious thought into creating an innovative automobile. they just take a car that is already fine and chop it up and add some kits and call it a new exotic. these people are even worse than companies like pagani who just build a body, not an engine. A real coachbuilder should be able to show its stuff by making a car from scratch, and creating an engine from scratch as well. koenigsegg is one of the few true coachbuilders left today
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Carlos Mencia is Not Funny 12:19AM (12/13/2006)
jon, you're misguided. Most Mercedes and BMW buyers are poseurs. Fisker made a BMW look less like an overweight box on wheels and more like a chubby box on wheels with a shark face. The Fisker CLS I'm not wild about.
Have Fiskers been selling? Where's the proof? It's still in business and has an exhibit at the LA Auto Show. A dead firm wouldn't have that.
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Car videos & Motorcycle videos 12:10AM (12/13/2006)
The designer is awesome, creating Aston's and this car, and to think he would have been responsible for the BMW lineup but he was replaced by Chris Bangle. Good going BMW.
http://www.dpccars.com
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Tiago do Vale 5:54AM (12/13/2006)
Ma Dai:
First: you have to know what coachbuilding is:
It's precisely picking a car from a manufacturer and giving it a different body.
Second: Fisker is a great designer: BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, etc. have his signature, and that has a price.
Third: The BMWs and Mercedes he uses are very good cars -I don't blame him for having them as a basis for his models- but he goes quite beyond giving them a new body: it's a carbon-fiber body -lighter and stiffer. Besides, he tunes the engine and suspension: all together results in a very different (and better) car.
Four: Exclusivity has a price too.
Five: Fisker is about to offer a 100k car, developed by Fisker from ground up, so they will be a coachbuilder and also a manufacturer, keeping you happy, Ma Dai.
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Speed Racer 8:09AM (12/19/2006)
Hey #2 (phil)
at least 1 has been sold to a senior level VP in our company. It's parked occasionally in the basement parking garage of the Merchandise Mart here in Chicago. Beautiful car. Had no idea what it was when I first saw it. I guess the Gallardo was quite exclusive enough
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ma dai! 10:37AM (12/13/2006)
I understand what you're saying, Tiago, and agree with most of your points. However, I disagree with you fundamentally on some points as well.
To me, the art of creating a car is in the actual original design, going from something drawn on paper, to literally buying the parts one by one, to putting the car together yourself, from scratch. Buying a 650 and tuning it, to me, is taking the easy way out. No matter whether they sell or not, its just the cheap way to do it to me.
Yes, exclusivity puts a price on a car. But to be honest, $200.000 ain't that much, when you compare to true coachbuilders, who make one-off custom cars, from scratch, and charge over a million. Even companies like koenigsegg charge a solid $800.000 for their cars.
Fisker's design is nice, yes, and, though you can blatantly see the 650 in the car on the right in the picture, you can also see the design improvements made to it. But to me, Fisker is just another one of these guys who is taking the cheap/easy way out, just tuning a car and calling it his own mark. He should be calling it the 'BMW 6 Series Fisker Edition' or something like that.
He is NOT, I stress, building a car. He is just a glorified tuner...
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G. Snyder 10:14AM (12/13/2006)
"jon, you're misguided. Most Mercedes and BMW buyers are poseurs. "
What is this supposed to mean? What would a Mercedes owner be posing as? I guess I can understand the BMW comment if you are referring to someone who buys a automatic 3 series and never pushes it over 3k rpm...
Please fill me in here. What am I missing?
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G. Snyder 11:22AM (12/13/2006)
ma dai does not understand what a coach builder does.
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ma dai! 11:55AM (12/13/2006)
if you say so snyder, oh lord of automobiles
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aaron 12:40PM (12/13/2006)
ma dai. coachbuilding is not building a car ground up!!!! what you are saying cannot be applied to fisker. and if you say he is marely building a bodykit, which i completely disagree btw, he is making the most beautiful one at that.
making already great cars even better is not an easy job to do. have you even seen those cars in person? while not at your face, the refinement in design really speaks out that they are done by a person who understand the car design and very good at that.
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XR 12:43PM (12/13/2006)
Oh, in that case, the Glickenhaus Ferrari p4/5 by Pininfarina is really just a tuner car, too, right? It is based on an enzo. Really, it is just a body kit.... Oh, wait.
You really don't know what a coach builder does, do you, MaDia? Yeah, some build cars from the ground up, but some of the worlds most famous coach builders (like Pininfarina) do exactly what Fisker is doing.
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