Faraday Future’s vision of tomorrow is not the future we were expecting. Based on the company’s utopian teaser video, we were prepared for a sexier take on Google’s koala pod. A Tesla Model S fighter wouldn’t have surprised us, either, given all of the hype comparing Faraday Future with Silicon Valley’s darling Tesla. Or maybe the company would launch with a sleek-but-sensible sports car.
Among the long list of possibilities, though, we never predicted something as radical as the Faraday Future FFZERO1 concept, a fully electric, single-seat supercar with no doors. The California startup teases that “if developed for limited production,” the FFZERO1 will be good for more than 1000 horsepower, a top speed of more than 200 mph, and a zero-to-60 time of less than three seconds.
We wouldn’t bet on any of that becoming a reality, though. Unveiled under the dazzling glow of the Las Vegas strip and ahead of the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, an event where no one remembers the grand claims made just 12 months earlier, the FFZERO1 reminds us of concept cars from another era, when show cars were fully divorced from production realities. We were convinced that world of pure automotive fantasy had been killed off by bankruptcies, massive recalls, unfathomable scandals, and a global recession. Now we just wish we were 10 years old again so we could fully appreciate the bizarre FFZERO1 track car.
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