L.A. Auto Show 2019: Karma SC2 Stuns With 1,100 Horsepower
While the horsepower number is impressive, 10,500 lb-ft of torque is the real show-stopper.
Karma Automotive, based in Southern California, came to the L.A. Auto Show with the clear intent to steal the show. This is their home turf, after all.
From the look of things, they were successful. The Karma SC2, the company’s all-electric supercar, has stats that sound like something right out of a comic book or a video game.
Karma is boasting figures of 1,100 horsepower and an incredible 10,500 lb-ft of torque. That’s not a typo; we’ll give you a moment to do a double-take. We ourselves had to read the press release several times to make sure we weren’t dreaming.
How do numbers like that translate in the real world? We won’t get to find out until we get our hands on one. However, Karma Automotive states that the SC2 will reach 60 miles per hour in just 1.9 seconds. No top speed is listed, but Karma does claim a 350-mile range.
One of the SC2’s most unusual features is Drive and Play, a new piece of Karma technology. Utilizing exterior cameras and sensors, the SC2 will record your best drives — and allow you to play them back, from the comfort of your own driveway. The SC2 can transform into the ultimate sim-racing rig, allowing you to hone your skills by practicing on your favorite roads and tracks without leaving home.
Karma Automotive is perhaps best known for reviving the dead Fisker Karma. While we’re happy to see that model reborn as the Revero, we’re even happier to see the company begin to develop its own identity.
In a statement from the company’s press release, Karma Automotive CEO Lance Zhou states that the SC2 “previews our future design language, and is a thought-provoking expression of Karma’s future intellectual property and product offerings.”
In short, they’re saying that the wild, rakish, scissor-doored SC2 is the shape of things to come for Karma Automotive. From the look of things, they’ve managed to keep everything that we loved about Henrik Fisker‘s original design — long, low, and flowing — while updating the design language for the ’20s. The future looks pretty bright, if you ask us.
Photos by Derin Richardson for 6 Speed Online
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