I have been pondering my short experience with my Fisker for several weeks, and I have some advice for Fisker Corp that I thought I would post here. I am told that many company reps read this forum.
1. Know from the outset that I truly want Fisker to succeed. I love the looks of the car, and the promise it holds, but has yet to fulfill.
2. Hire a refined critic. By this I mean someone who has extensive experience with fine automobiles, that you give free license to criticize the car. It needs to be someone in whom you trust, someone with many years experience with Mercedes,, BMW, and perhaps Audi. I believe this would have prevented the release of a car with such an unbelievable number of bugs. Someone needed the power to say, "This is completely unacceptable in an automobile in this price range," or "The presets don't get lost every time I shut off my Audi," or "Gee, using this Comand center is worse than the touch screen in the GM SUV I had fifteen years ago."
3. Divorce Visteon. Enough said.
4. Fire the inspectors at Valmet that allow cars to ship with such poor body panel alignment.
5. Don't promise completion dates. Research and development takes time. I think we have all seen the result of placing deadlines ahead of getting it right. Release the product only when you have one. If you (or your refined critic in #2 above) wouldn't buy it, don't offer it for sale yet.
6. If your company is not ready to compete with the finer automobiles of the world, you need to build one that competes with the Chevys and Hyundais instead.
Good luck. I truly hope that Fisker Automotive makes it. What I have seen so far is not very encouraging.
Sincerely,
Karma1
1. Know from the outset that I truly want Fisker to succeed. I love the looks of the car, and the promise it holds, but has yet to fulfill.
2. Hire a refined critic. By this I mean someone who has extensive experience with fine automobiles, that you give free license to criticize the car. It needs to be someone in whom you trust, someone with many years experience with Mercedes,, BMW, and perhaps Audi. I believe this would have prevented the release of a car with such an unbelievable number of bugs. Someone needed the power to say, "This is completely unacceptable in an automobile in this price range," or "The presets don't get lost every time I shut off my Audi," or "Gee, using this Comand center is worse than the touch screen in the GM SUV I had fifteen years ago."
3. Divorce Visteon. Enough said.
4. Fire the inspectors at Valmet that allow cars to ship with such poor body panel alignment.
5. Don't promise completion dates. Research and development takes time. I think we have all seen the result of placing deadlines ahead of getting it right. Release the product only when you have one. If you (or your refined critic in #2 above) wouldn't buy it, don't offer it for sale yet.
6. If your company is not ready to compete with the finer automobiles of the world, you need to build one that competes with the Chevys and Hyundais instead.
Good luck. I truly hope that Fisker Automotive makes it. What I have seen so far is not very encouraging.
Sincerely,
Karma1