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Electric Fisker Karma Turned LS9-Swapped Destino Coming Next Year

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Old 10-21-2013, 04:55 PM
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Kiss that electric power train good bye. Instead of batteries and solar panels, VL Automotive's "Destino" will be powered by a gas swilling, tire-obliterating, environmentally unsafe, totally awesome, LS9. That's the plan anyway. If the ZR1's motor turns out to be too much of a hassle (read: too expensive), they'll likely settle for the new LT1.

The car will be very expensive. Lutz says that the car will cost in the ball park of $200,000. If you're one of the lucky few to already own a Fisker Karma, Lutz will take it to the dark side for an addition $100,000. The Destino will be a low-volume model, as VL only has 25 Karma's in their possession. Those willing to take the plunge will be able to get their cars sometime next year.

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Mr. Lutz has been touting this setup for a couple of years. Nice to see that the left over bodies will be recycled to something useful.

There's a bunch of them that were flood damaged too. Not sure what happened to them...
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Yeah, they were all ruined. 16 of them straight up caught fire and burned to the ground. Fisker has had some genuinely awful luck.
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worst luck of all........Beiber owns one.



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