Fisker Latigo CS 2007
January 1, 2007
Go ahead, say it out loud: Latigo, Lah-TEE-Go. It’s a strange name for a pretty car formed from a strange-looking car. Let us explain. Fisker Coachbuild is the brainchild of Henrik Fisker, former designer for BMW and Aston Martin. He left the corporate world to design and craft his own cars. Well, design and craft his own car bodies, really. The mechanical bits for his creations come from Mercedes-Benz and BMW. In the case of the Latigo, the donor car is the BMW 6 Series coupe (either the 650i or the M6). It is stripped of its bulbous body panels, and a smooth, Fisker-designed body (mostly of carbon fiber) is put on. Yes, it looks a bit like an Aston Martin. A host of options are available—this is an expensive, re-handbuilt car, after all. So go ahead and wrap every square millimeter of the interior in leather. Fisker says it can deliver up to 620 hp with a modified V-10. Choose the 360 hp 650i as the donor car instead of the 500 hp M6 to avoid the herky-jerky SMG 7-speed that is the M6’s only available transmission.
PRICE: $219,000
ENGINE: 5.0-liter V-10
TRANSMISSION: 7-speed sequential manual
POWER: 500 hp at 7,750 rpm
TORQUE: 384 ft lbs at 6,100 rpm
CURB WEIGHT: 3,850 pounds
0-60 MPH: 4.5 seconds
TOP SPEED: 155 mph (limited)
PROS: BMW driving dynamics without the modern BMW styling
CONS: You will have to explain to everyone what a Fisker is
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