I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is.
Wait, no, scratch that. I am very much NOT sorry, because this take makes too much sense. The rules for a proper Back To The Future time machine are:
- The car looks cool as shit
- The company that made it is spectacularly dead
- It is simultaneously both terrible and yet spectacular
By the time Back To The Future debuted in 1985, the famed DeLorean DMC-12 had already been out of production for two years following the collapse of DeLorean. And the DeLorean was a futuristic car, with gullwing doors and a very weird engine setup for the American market (a rear-mounted PRV V6, which was mostly just a terrible and odd French-Swedish collaboration).
The Fisker Karma is in a similar boat. If a BTTF re-make were made today (which I have no knowledge that one will ever be made, nor should one ever be made, because as it exists it is a perfect film), the Karma would have been out of production for six years. That’s a good amount of time, and yet it still looks futuristic. Its engine is weird, since it doesn’t power the wheels directly, but rather powers a generator that powers batteries that power electric motors that power the wheels.
Also, it looks good, which is a VITAL component for any time machine. Doc Brown famously noted that “the way I see it, if you’re going to build a time machine with a car you might as well do it with some style,” and the Fisker Karma definitely has that in droves:
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It’s loopy and swoopy and it’s got side exhausts and it makes a totally awesome WOO-WOOO-WOOOO sound as it goes by on electric-only mode. Listen:
So clearly, it satisfies rule number one. The Fisker Karma also satisfies rule number two, in that Fisker the car company is very much kaput, and no, the re-make that might be the Karma Revero doesn’t count.
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But is it simultaneously both terrible AND spectacular? Yes, my friends, it is. Our own Jason Torchinsky drove a Fisker Karma, who proudly proclaimed that “you’ll love it, for the half hour of life left before you die,” presumably after being asphyxiated by those extremely lovely side exhausts:
I know, I know, we once posed the question of what car should be in a Back to the Future remake, but frankly, all the answers garnered were wrong.
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The Back to the Future remake that should never be made should feature Jeff Goldblum as Doc, Tom Holland as Marty McFly, and a Fisker Karma as the time machine.
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