We Bought a $70,000 FISKER OCEAN! | What We Bought & Why | Long-Term Test Intro 

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List price for extreme is 62k. You could start by giving accurate information...

Literally one video exists of this supposed "SUV" driving on a road that curves, and the guy was going 25 MPH. Please actually test the Ocean's handling on curves at speed. A moose test would be great. A lap on a twisty race track. And zero video exists of this "SUV" on even a dirty paved road, let alone a dirt road or anything remotely close to what an SUV should be able to drive on.

@tribalypredisposed literally there are dozens of videos of the ocean speeding around on a track, windy roads, on ice and snow. They partnered with a race car driver to test the car... do some research. You clearly didn't try very hard

@@nickanselmo8619 literally there is one video posted this week, and an oval track is not the kind of track I mean. Go ahead and post some links of what you think I missed. Do some research, you clearly are making stuff up.

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Fr imma buy this same one of cargurus for 25k in a few months

20,000 to be exact 😂

MAGNA is not known for Good Quality.

​@@markplott4820 really? Any examples? I am really interested in this topic?

Right the money!

@@bartoszjankowiak3157 - JAG i Pace , JAG F - Pace , Fisker , Toyota Supra, Chrysler Voyager, Cheap Grand Cherokee, Chrysler PT, Cheap Commander, mini Countryman , mini Paceman .......more.

Electronic diversity too...not google based is a refreshing positive IMO

no issues with the test drive? how long as your test drive?

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no issue with drive test ... i want to ask you again for this

Company is about to go bankrupt. LMAO.

Check out mkhbd review on this trash of a car

Oh, it "just" voids the warranty early if you use it more than 500 times? No worries then, Fisker will not be around to honor the warranty much longer anyway!

@tribalypredisposed why are you here blowing up the comment section if you aren't even interested in the vehicle. Get a new hobby, your intentions are clear.

@@nickanselmo8619 yes, I am here, as I have been since 2015 everywhere on the Internet, warning people about giving their money to the walking definition of scam artist that is Henrik Fisker. Fisker started this company with claims of a supercapacitors breakthrough, and a graphene production machine breakthrough, and a battery division lead by "nanotech expert" Jack Kavanough, with patents. A few months later Fisker claimed the supercapacitors were already in production. The supercapacitors were science fair ready, fit in the palm of a hand and lit a single LED. The graphene production machine was a DVD burner. Jack Kavanough is a retired dentist scam artist who had recently been found by a court to have defrauded investors and sold a fake Picasso. No patents existed. Never mind, Fisker then claimed to have a solid state battery breakthrough, with fifteen patents. What he had was an effort to steal IP from QuantumScape which failed and resulted in a $750,000 fine levied by the judge. No patents. Now Fisker has already sold hundreds of millions worth of Fisker stock, and has it sitting in his bank accounts, and even with the stock at eighty cents Fisker is not using his hundreds of millions from this scam company to buy stock. Who do you think knows more about the prospects of Fisker, you, or Henrik Fisker? Fisker clearly thinks his company is doomed, or he would be buying the stock.

@@tribalypredisposed 500 is a lot. Not many, if any cars are going to come close to the limit.

@@bzdtemp I agree with your conclusion, but only because I think Ocean owners will not be able to drive their cars for very long after Fisker goes bankrupt.

Fisker will never get their tech in order. I told people this would happen consistently for two years before Fisker started production, for another seven months while Fisker pretended to be in production before starting to deliver the car, and here we are. When Fisker got a billion dollars from the SPAC "merger" the company was Henrik Fisker, his wife, and seven employees. The software engineers available for Fisker to hire were the ones who could not find or keep jobs in a world of automakers desperately hiring good software engineers by the tens of thousands. Volkswagen hired 5,000 just to try to make their EV UI, and fail pretty badly. GM's latest EV also having some serious UI problems. Fisker got the guys and gals Volkswagen and GM turned away. EV startups manage to make good UIs, Lucid and Rivian and of course Tesla have done it well, but they are led by tech people, and Henrik Fisker is legacy automaker to his core. The UI lags? Well, it is better than the UI for his first startup, where owners were breaking the screen trying to get it to respond. The company that bought Fisker Automotive out of bankruptcy spent two years re-writing the UI software. Fisker shipped these cars before the UI was complete because it will never be complete.

You have explained yourself well. I am a risk-taker and entrepreneur. I took the chance and bought one. I am so happy I did. I expected that it would be risky to go with a new car company. But took the chance because the car is made by experts who make cars for other well-known European brands, They are experienced and have made a quality built automobile. Fisker, the brand, is going through the expected growing pains. But they are rapidly handling the bumps in the road. I love my Fisker more and more as time passes. If you are not adventuresome and are a nitpicker, or have little patience, buy an established ICE brand. If you are a bit of a risktaker, like cutting-edge technology, and are patient, then route for the underdog, and buy a Fisker!

Lots of folks out there with way more money than brains. Also, there are plenty that will spend whatever to be first and “different”.

Fisker will be bankrupt within 18 months max. Good luck with that.

​@@CarShopping101I don't see how Fisker lasts more than six months, personally. You are an optimist.

@@tribalypredisposed troll

@@nickanselmo8619 idiot.

@@tribalypredisposed they will for sure last 10x longer than lucid or rivian who built their own factories and have tremendous mountains of debt and selling 100k vehicles no one can afford.

NOW $36K .. NO ACC, no voice control. No auto hill hold. If this was a tesla Edmunds would be tearing tesla apart!

but Drives like CRAPPY.

I totally agree. I impulsively bought it in 2020 and committed in 2022 knowing that any car would be a step up to my 2011 Ford taurus limited. The early adopter penalty is definitely felt, but I must admit that I love driving the fisker ocean one. I feel it to be a very comfortable ride and really fun given how nimble it is for its size and weight. I'm rooting for fisker. Hope I can keep enjoying their vision

But in this case it is just an example of why not to buy a Fisker. His last company had an awful UI too. He is a legacy automaker and his companies are as adept with software as Volkswagen is, but with a lot less time and money and employees, and using software engineers who could not get hired for the flailing EV UI projects at Volkswagen or GM or other companies. If Fisker was to survive five years, the ADAS system still would not be functioning.

I bought a 2024 impreza six months ago and have already had a recall and my screen went blank because of a loose connection. You are correct on the fact of not being the first to buy a vehicle if not willing to deal with some kinks. It's not just a fisker problem.

Software improvement updates have been coming fast.

@@BartSantello agreed. Delivery of updates, I desire more, but Fisker has done wonderful providing support and addressing opportunities quickly. If only they had a centralized system that didn't hand calls off to different individuals asking for the same info over and over. Sweet ride tho. Love this car

Ditto

Just wait until the company goes bankrupt. Then let us know how great it is.

@@CarShopping101 I'm actually not worried about the stock price hysteria. You a Tesla simp?

Agreed. My FOO has been awesome and really fun to drive.

FISKER is Fraudulent.

I ordered one, but I didn't order things like the solar roof which is expensive and has very low output. It came in about 63K. That is less than an Audi, BMW or Mercedes. It is a beautifully built and designed SUV. Who puts a little dog nose window in their car! Fisker does. The design inside and out is clean and uncluttered. My test drive went great. This car is fast!

@@billbixler8534 Bill, please don't misinterpret my comments. I also liked the car very much. It's beautifully designed, I just felt it was overpriced----although I'll concede that other cars in it's space are equally as pricey if not more so. But my greatest concern about Fisker is it's ability to survive. It's stock is just about worthless, trading this morning at a little over 12 Cents per share. They have halted production because they are sitting on about 4,500 units that they haven't been able to sell. And the reality for Fisker is that unless they get a big cash infusion or some sort of lifeline, they will not survive. So, it's quite likely that you have bought a car from a company that will not exist six months from now.

As far as I have read or seen on videos, all you stated is present. Fisker head is a designer not an engineer or businessman & his legacy of failures follow him.

@@edornelas8275 Only because badly informed people like to pretend being smart and make posts like yours. What happened to the hybrid Fisker Karma was bad luck ie. a hurricane and a battery supplier going under combined with GOP politicians targeting the company unfairly. And as for other failures I do wonder what those are - maybe you can enlighten us.

Great thought. Never looked at it like that but you're dead on. I wonder if One owners will get it as a permanent unlock. That would be a great perk.

Apparently it's only counting during the warranty period but it still operates past the warranty expiration.

You want to know how to get a permanent unlock? buy another car with out this stupid hyper boost counter...@@sohailakmal3384

I’m pretty sure my homie invested in RadioShack probably had better odds 😊

Indeed, if someone had told you to put money in Nvidia in 2010 or in Tesla in 2016, you'd have called them stupid.

My opinion is that the short-sellers have been successful in driving down the price. I am an owner and a long-term stock holder.

​@@johnemden7682This.

The short sellers also appear to have a very aggressive group of RU-vid commenters too. @@johnemden7682

Me too ! I'm waiting for the return Fisker's Stock quote to buy shares.

Because Teslas are even worse? Everybody knows that. Teslas are economy cars. Doesn't make the Fisker Ocean a good car. Get yourself a KIA EV9 or the upcoming Hyundai Ioniq 7 if you look for a large SUV with real quality. More general: any premium brand from Europe, especially Germany, or Korea.

@@bullshitbingo2259 it all depends on what the buyer thinks a “good car”. For me it is simplicity, efficiency, almost no upkeep, great software, and speed. Tesla checks all those boxes for me. For others, they may want a quality interior like a BMW or Mercedes, which are better in that regard.

@@bullshitbingo2259 sorry bud I drove both Kia and Hyundai, not even close to Fisker. I dont know what you are talking about or how did you come to this conclusion....

⁠@@bullshitbingo2259please, i’ve had the (mis)pleasure of driving those Kia’s and Hyundais (Ioniq 6) and all i can say is what they lack in class and subtlety, they make it up with cheesy flair and design elements that seldom blend aesthetically from front to side to rear. Hard pass..

comparing a fisker with hyundai or kia.......🤣🤣you made my day..........start at least with mercedes,but their middle range@@bullshitbingo2259

How many more thousand did you pay for yours? Recently got y as well

UI LAG ...build quality can fix but UI lag ..good luck to you

Software updates can fix @@minnguyen4872

Agreed if they fix their issues that's probably what will sell it for me. Because hey even if the world ends you'll have a car that can do a hours worth of walking/carrying stuff a day :D

You can't fool me, you are definitely a "glass half full" type of person. Love the comment, btw.@@chriskl2361

That’s pathetic. You paid 70k for a vehicle with a solar panel that is non-operable and you’re ok with that? Must be a California democrat. 😂

How do you feel about losing 30-40k?

too bad the car itself is VERY CRAPPY.

Why? @@markplott4820

Based on what?@@markplott4820

Agreed stunning and 90% of Fisker owners recommend the car.

Based on what?, built quality is the high end, higher than a Tesla, just like all other cars manufactured by Styer in Austria. Opion not based on data, -but false date from people who never owned one? -and everyone knows Henrik Fisker went bankrupt with Fisker automotive?, so why should the Fisker Inc. be better?, -well the fact is Henrik never owned Fisker automotive, he was only a partner, Bernhard Koehler was on of the partners, why is no one blaming him?, Henrik did not want to seek bankruptcy so he resigned from the board and left, a week later the 3 others partners filed bankruptcy. The Fisker automotive problems have nothing to do with Henrik Fisker, but fact the legend manufacture like Ford, GM and Toyota controls the supply chain and have first right to sub-supplier production, that's why so few Karmas were produced and bad luck like hurricane Sandy flooded the hole production from Finland and later the former factory they bought from GM was in worse state than Fisker Automotve knew and needed more loans, just bad karma. But don't say the Ocean is crapy, yes software is not perfect, but that is a window into the past, lasted software have solved the first reported issues, and Fisker Inc. is that car manufacture right now is fastest to release updates, and is doing to their unique business platform since they have all software in-house and do the manufacturing is out sourced. If the Ocean is crapy share the data that supports the opinion, a few negative comments from a few owners is false date and taken out contest!, and so fare the few complaints are only from the USA, and likely more related to costumers living in States that does not allowed direct sale over the internet, 90% of owners are very happy with the Car, little higher in Europe!@@markplott4820

Nope 25k NEW and 5k USED

Confirmed correct!

honest question, are you going to leave it outside exposed to the elements just to gain 3 miles of charge a day!?

⁠@@PeterPyoYeah, buying a brand new $65k+ car and intentionally parking it outside in direct sunlight 365 days a year is ridiculous 😂

Looks are subjective! But I share your opinion.

Mighty white of you to make a pun like that. Or not.

No, we don't.

I have one and the audio is very sharp and clean. However, it does appear as though the audio system is not fully activated yet like many parts of the car. The rear speakers never seem to fill the cabin as well as I had hoped, even with the balance and fade at 0 offset. Hope this is addressed with a software update because it sounds like the system has more to deliver.

@@platnumphantasyhow often have you had updates since you’ve had the car?

@@fjkbravoyt I got it in October and have had two updates. A third is available and was supposed to be pushed to my car already, but perhaps it’s not getting to my car in the garage. Mine doesn’t have wi-fi OTA updates yet.

Just test drove a ONE. Sound system is excellent! Much better than Tesla Model Y lLong Range. Sounds like a concert hall. Spatial 3D audio is amazing.

I saw one at the auto show once. Never "in the wild". Kind of like a zoo sighting.

Software version 2.0 is coming. That is going to send the stock soaring.

The term is accurate if it's real suede from synthetic cows.

And if the material is claimed as "real Alcantara" it should be. There a lot of cheap synthetic suedes out there that don't meet that quality standards of Alcantara.

FISKER motto - fake it , till you make it.

Their lower priced model, the "Pear" will be under 40k

@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 The Ocean Sport model is also under $40k. They haven't delivered any. Don't know if they made any. Production was halted and we haven't heard when they will start again. Fisker needs to sell a few thousand cars first. That is the impression that the sales guys indicated to me, asking me to upgrade to Ultra. But for my kids, I'm only willing to buy the Sport. I wouldn't count on the Pear. We haven't heard any signed deals with Foxconn like they were suggesting a while back. Fisker should focus on the Ocean to make it successful first.

@@coolpix222 Gotcha, yeah lower trims coming out dead last has been a thing recently with new EVs/companies.

@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 Agreed. They need to do really high volume to generate profits on the lower end cars. I think their Sport trim will sell well if the can resolve the software bugs.

Probably, the upfront fees are huge. So will be monthly fees per vehicle

Exactly, Fisker cannot pay the man (Apple/Google) their fee. Let alone the massive integration of those systems into a vehicle. Some major manufacturers don't even try to integrate both straight out the gate. Some never do. @@drunkenwhiskeyeu

Cheaper to drive than a Prius. Cmon man that’s a little ridiculous..

@@Getusom probably true if only considering fuel cost and not price and deprecation of the car

Fiskers winning over the Porsche drivers now. Nice!

To everyone worried about cold weather and ev batteries...but yeah I've seen a dip (in Colorado) mostly keeping the car and battery warm takes a few % off . But I don't drive 250+ a day so it's not an issue. Everyone will have a diff use case. Norway celebrates another record year for electric vehicle sales with an 82.4 percent market share in 2023

Exactly. Everyone's got a Tesla. With a Fisker you are guaranteed exclusivity. Also the Fisker build quality is a lot better (no panel gaps).

Hey OP, I find the Niro comparison interesting. I own a 2019 NIRO{a fine EV}and had to have another look at the Fisker to make a comparison. I think you are correct. As to the choices you list as 'other EVs'-- I'd pick the EQB for the kopecks spent.

Depends if all your neighbours have got a Tesla. In that case getting the Fisker would make you a person with slightly better taste.

But why do all the owners at the Fisker Meetups recommend the car? Fisker must be doing something right?

@@martinmcnulty8155Fisker is doing something right: paying the shills to hype it up

A: If you are familiar with the term "vested interest". It would be that. @@martinmcnulty8155

B/c the company is already on the verge of bankruptcy. That's how.

Because Fisker will never achieve acc. The Fisker software engineers are the people who Volkswagen and GM rejected for their bloated failing UI teams. In a world where good software engineers get job offers daily, Fisker hired the people sitting at home wishing they could find a job.

Automatic Climate Control is more an HVAC issue than a software one. If the hardware works and has the capacity to cool the vehicle then getting software sufficient to make it work seems an unlikely cause for not having it. @@tribalypredisposed

Agreed. Paying for subpar quality and promises needs to stop. Tesla is a prime example besides Fisker.

Actually Lyriq didn’t have super cruiser ready when they were just released. I don’t mind buying a car and waiting for updates if I had confidence that these updates will come. I got my rivian pretty early and it was nice getting frequent updates over time. But this ocean seems to be less prime time and missing a lot more features than the rivian at launch. I recently saw one and it didn’t seem to be worth $70k.

How did tesla do this? If you are referring to the Full Self Driving package, it has always been called the FSB BETA, which literally means it isn’t finished…anyone buying it expecting a complete product wasn’t paying attention.

These are options. If you don't want them don't pay for them. Appears that plenty of people will pay for stuff now with hopes of actually getting them in the future.

@@grahamsiebring5227 Come now, really? How long have you been in the Tesla world? When they first launched FSD you got......NOTHING. Not even Beta. Oh, and don't get me started on full price "pre-orders" for the mythical roadster. Not $100 deposits. Full payment.