This [1] is up there with all the 82-0 clones for the most vibe-coded thing I've come across in a non-professional context.
The type of customer looking for a practical cheap truck won't take kindly to a bunch of silhouette photos and a brand nobody's ever heard of. For the subset who have a good mental radar for AI slop, this whole website just looks like a scam.
Which Fisker, who has an actual background in the industry, fell flat on his face executing on. The person behind this REO initiative is a real estate guy.
Not saying it's impossible, because I very much want this to be a thing, but if Fisker couldn't pull it off with much more funding, I'm not going to bite until I see a real vehicle and some actual adults backing the thing.
Fisker was trying to make weird hypercars, not extremely basic vehicles that could be built from scratch by most mechanic's shops.
There are no unsolved problems here. If you find one, you can take apart a Frontier, Tacoma, or Colorado from before 2005 and check how it was done then.
Obviously, manufacturing acumen will be needed, but if you've ever worked on a truck of this category, you know they are not complicated. I swapped the engine in my 93 Hardbody last year solo with no experience. It was easy.
The type of customer looking for a practical cheap truck won't take kindly to a bunch of silhouette photos and a brand nobody's ever heard of. For the subset who have a good mental radar for AI slop, this whole website just looks like a scam.
[1] https://postimg.cc/2bRfDbNp