These Exclusive Spy Shots Seem To Show What Could Be A New Karma Crossover

You remember Karma, right? They’re the company that took over building the plug-in hybrid sports sedan known as the Fisker Karma when that iteration of Fisker went out of business, which was a good bit before the most recent carmaker to bear the Fisker name went out of business. Karma took the car’s model name for their company and re-named the Fisker Karma to be the Karma Revero, and gave it a bit of a facelift. They also showed an all-new supercar called the Karma Kaveya at this years’ Pebble Beach Car Week. We haven’t really heard much out of Karma since then, no updates to speak of on the Kaveya or anything like that. That’s why these pictures, taken for us by a reader who goes by Carina, are so interesting – they seem to show a previously unseen Karma crossover.

The pictures were taken in Irvine, where the car was parked outside Karma’s facility. The pictures are a bit grainy, which seems appropriate conceptually for spy shots, but you can still make out the car pretty well. It appears to have a mat or something draped over the right front fender, and the passenger door may be ajar or misaligned in some way?

The overall design is pretty sleek; it seems to be a four-door crossover-type vehicle, and though it doesn’t seem to meet the Four Rules of Wagonhood (it lacks a cargo area side window), it does seem to be a hatchback/fastback design:

That’s a bit far away. Computer! Zoom in, sectors 10,6 to 18, 9!

Hmm, that’s still a little hard to see. Computer! Enhance edges! Delineate any fastbackitude! Execute!

That definitely looks like some sort of crossover design. I can’t really make out much of what is going on in the front, but there seem to be some pretty deep undulations in that hood, and I think I see a hint of what could be a very narrow headlamp/DRL/indicator unit there, but it’s not clear.

The side view looks pretty clean, and I like how moody this shot is. Let’s zoom in again. Computer, you know what to do:

We can see the taillight design pretty well here, which appears to be a heckblende full-width taillight bar (I’m guessing based on recent trends) which then wraps around and thickens to form a very nice side marker lamp. The roofline is pretty obscured here, but you can see a fairly dramatic bulge around the rear wheelarch.

The wheels seem large enough to push this into crossover territory as opposed to just a fastback/hatchback sedan, and that makes sense, as crossovers are what sell.

I looked at Karma’s model lineup, and there really doesn’t seem to be anything that matches this:

Most of those seem to be modifications of the old Fisker Karma bodyshell, except the Kaveya, which we saw at Pebble Beach, and the Ivara, which may be the closest match to whatever this is:

That’s also a fastback-style, four-door crossover-ish thing, but it’s much sleeker, with a far more steeply raked roofline and it looks a lot bigger overall. Perhaps that’s the concept car Ivara, and what we see in these spy shots is the watered-down production one?

Of course, I’m just guessing; this could be a car from some other, say, Chinese manufacturer that was brought here for benchmarking. Or it could be just a styling exercise. It could be a clay model, too, we don’t know it’s an actual car, even.

I’m not really sure, but, as always, I welcome wild speculation! So have at it!

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