• Mindless_Possible_22@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Better looking than Tesla. If they can get away with not being sued by Land Rover for producing a similar looking vehicle, I think they will sell better than Tesla in 5 years.

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    1 year ago

    Fisker lost their biggest investor a few years because the ceo refused to step down, so my wife’s current coworker was told to spend the next 2 months to find a job. So he did and that was a few years ago.

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    1 year ago

    The company said it and its manufacturing partner, Magna International
    , built 4,725 Oceans in the third quarter and delivered 1,097 to customers.

    Hopefully most of these are just waiting at a port somewhere, but… not great, is it?

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    1 year ago

    I was very interested in the Ocean due tp a coworker talking it up and then went to the website, which was total trash and seemed so low quality to where it felt like a scam. That initial impression is all I needed. I was told about the history of Fisker, and I am glad I never put down a deposit.

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    1 year ago

    If the price of the ocean extreme drops within a year, I might consider one. Those for Europe are built and serviced by external companies (built by magna who also does the Toyota supra / BMW Z4 and jaguar iPace)

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    1 year ago

    Literally asked a lady today in a Trader Joe’s parking lot about her Ocean (Palm Springs, CA).

    She says she hates it. She has a Rivian at home and has had a couple of Teslas. She said the software/infotainment is absolute crap, unintuitive, unresponsive and it’s just an average ride. She mentioned specifically that autopilot is crap.

    Fisker also recently rejected me for a UX role, so, you know, chip on my shoulder.
    Still, like the vehicle overall. Hope they’re working out the kinks. Have an R1T and it gets better every update.

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    1 year ago

    They essentially sell Proof of Concepts, not production level cars.

    Until a company have figured out production at scale, after sales support/repair/warranty, parts availability, etc. They are really just selling a demo car.

    Until an OEM can deliver 100K vehicles a year, they are sub-scale and can die in an instant. (Fisker is on the verge of dying again.)

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    1 year ago

    Well they’ve been advertising it for years and they’re finally taking orders when interest rates are at an all time high.