Fisker Karma Boosts Hollywood Image With Cameo In Thriller

Home

News

Electric Cars

Fisker Karma Boosts Hollywood Image With Cameo In Thriller

Antony Ingram

Contributing Writer BIO

Antony is an automotive obsessive: Whether it drives, sits there looking pretty or intrigues from afar, he'll talk and write about it. Automotive... More

LATEST ARTICLE
Nissan Leaf, Solar-Canopy Charging Station In New SIMS Game
The Nissan Leaf is no stranger to videogames. Last year, we had a little race between a Leaf and... Read More

#6LEADERBOARD RANK
1818ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED
4COMMENTS POSTED

700 views Oct 18, 2012

Follow Antony

2012 Fisker Karma during road test, Los Angeles, Feb 2012

Enlarge Photo

Related Photo Galleries

See more photos »

Some might say that luxury carmaker Fisker's story is a bit of a thriller itself.

Whether tales of fires and frozen loans will measure up to the new Harrison Ford thriller Paranoia is a different matter, but Fisker's range-extended luxury sedan makes a cameo appearance in the film.

According to USA Today (via Motor Authority), the car is a gift from Ford's character to a young, ambitious employee, played by Liam Hemsworth.

Liam's character is blinded by ambition, susceptible to rewards that may come too easily, and the gifted Karma is one example of that in the film.

Tongue firmly in cheek, we can see parallels being drawn with Fisker itself--huge ambition, but struggling with the negative publicity that ambition has brought the company...

Of course, the Karma is no stranger to TV or celebrity. It's well-known that Leonardo di Caprio and Justin Bieber count themselves among Karma owners, while a Karma also featured as Ashton Kutcher's wheels in sitcom Two And A Half Men.

But will the Karma's new cameo role help sales? Or is that a little ambitious?...

+++++++++++

Follow GreenCarReports on Facebook and Twitter.

Tags:

Movies Range-Extended Electric Vehicle

Posted in:

2012 Fisker News Electric Cars Green Fisker Karma News

Contribute

Send us a tip Comment Contact the editor

People Who Read This Article Also Read

Have an opinion?

Comments (2)

Xiaolong Li Posted: 10/18/2012 1:57pm PDT

Not surprising! Cars are "sold" by movies these days...

Watch just about every epsiode of "Modern Family" and you will see the "sneaky" Prius ads.

Watch the Transformer, it is basically a GM car ad..

Watch the "Transporters", it was BMW, then becomes an Audi ad (although I like it better in Ronin).

Watch the 007 movies, car is always part of it...

Post Reply

Vote

Bad stuff?

stefan required Posted: 10/18/2012 2:37pm PDT

I personally hope, that this raises the sales figures. It would give Fisker capital to fix the never ending problems with the car. It is simply not ready and has a lot of glitches which Fisker is currently not willing to promise to fix...

Stefan, Karma Owner

Post Reply

Vote

Bad stuff?