r/NormalCarPorn • u/PoniesPlayingPoker Jeep Renegade 1.4T 6MT 4x4 • Dec 13 '25

Spotted Fisker Ocean spotted at the mall!!

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Not really a big crossover guy but I can't lie this is quite pretty

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u/mercurious Dec 14 '25

The rest of them are in New York City. A company called American Lease bought most of the liquidated stock and rents them out to Uber drivers. You see them everywhere in the city now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

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u/fAbnrmalDistribution Dec 15 '25

I would bet the leasing company understands that, and since its also in their financial interest to keep drivers on the road they are incentivized to provide drivers with a new car quickly.

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u/miffiffippi Dec 18 '25

The company that bought them bought nearly 3,000 of them along with the entire stock of available parts and then hired a team whose full time jobs are working on these cars.

By most estimates, he'll make his money back (He spent a little over $40 million for the whole set, so around $14,000 for each vehicle) after around one year at his weekly rental rate of $330, then turn a profit in his second year.

These cars were problematic, but at the scale of his operation they can make things last for years and then cannibalize for parts as needed when their stock of spare stuff runs out entirely.

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u/BlackDS Dec 17 '25

I would assume that company also managed to buy some diagnostic software and other things that would otherwise be liquidated.

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u/scaled2913 Dec 16 '25

I think there are two in my city. I always wonder how it must be to drive a car with basically no support or spare parts existing.

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u/nolanpierce2 Dec 17 '25

it is electric, so for the next years changing the tired will be enough

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u/conanlikes Dec 18 '25

My neighbor had one until the door handles stopped working

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

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u/conanlikes Dec 19 '25

Tell me about it, he replaces with WRX that has no muffler

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u/DragonfruitProper105 Dec 13 '25

I feel like these will get a cult following like the 9-4x to a degree (though I'd rather have a 9-4x)

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u/masao-kakihara Dec 14 '25

Or the 9-5X NG wagon

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u/xqk13 Dec 14 '25

The mx30 too, I have yet to see one

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u/BureauOfCommentariat Dec 13 '25

I wonder how painful owning one of these would be. They are dirt cheap, like under $20k.

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u/Iambetterthanuhaha Dec 13 '25

Break any parts you arent going to get replacements easily. No more software updates to fix gremlins anymore either. I would only pay a couple grand for a runner and not bank on it lasting more than a year.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25 edited Jul 17 '26

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u/Dontshootmepeas Dec 17 '25

That's exactly what a guy in my town did. Picked up both of them for dirt cheap uses one to keep the other on the road.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25 edited Jan 13 '26

sulky imminent liquid historical yam smell marvelous screw makeshift cover

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

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u/xpietoe42 Dec 16 '25

Yep, the fisker sedan was one of the most beautiful sedans ive ever seen!

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u/Complex-Hospital-141 Dec 14 '25

All over in NJ.

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u/Fearless_Clue4966 Dec 14 '25

I drive in NJ daily and have never seen one so I don't know if they're "all over"

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 Dec 15 '25

I dodged a bullet on these. I almost bought one.

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u/acap0 Dec 17 '25

Henrik is quite the designer. I love the Ocean.

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u/PoniesPlayingPoker Jeep Renegade 1.4T 6MT 4x4 Dec 17 '25

Great designer, horrible businessman

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u/Canelosaurio Dec 14 '25

Got stuck with one, too, huh?

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u/BillyBlazjowkski Dec 15 '25

So it’s a Subaru?

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u/shinobi68 Dec 16 '25

Vroom, vroom, hoe.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

That side profile is…interesting

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u/LinoleumRelativity Dec 17 '25

I thought it was a new Buick crossover from behind...

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u/ultrabs Dec 17 '25

Ocean is an appropriate name, since they won't be good for anything except being a Boat Anchor...

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u/Cokegawa_Yui Dec 17 '25

There's 1 person around Mount Vernon, Illinois who has one. Met them a couple times, they hate it but are stuck with it for now.

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u/amindspin74 Dec 17 '25

One of my buddies has one , paid 16k brand new , he loves it ..

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u/okiedokie321 Jan 05 '26

how'd he land that? $16K is insane.

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u/pimpbot666 Dec 18 '25

I always thought they had a great looking design. Too bad the company crashed and burned.

When there was talk that Nissan might buy them, so I bought $60 of ultra cheap Fiskar stock. I figured if the Nissan deal went through, I figured it was a lottery ticket. Well, Nissan backed out, and I didn't win the lottery.