A while ago, a friend at work invited me to attend an Aptera show-and-tell in Palo Alto. The Aptera is a wonderful change in car design. For something that’s different, I’m glad the designers opted to make a different look. Once you get over the “airplane” look and feel, I could see it being a fun car.

But like the Tesla, it suffers from the limits of battery. It requires charging time - which I don’t need right now with petrol. The Prius and the Insight are sheer garbage because they lack the most important aspect of the car - style! No, cool factor! No, sweetness! No, it lacks the “wow, is that your car?!??!” gawk from everyone that gazes at it.

All other hybrids are trying to be regular cars - and I don’t blame the manufacturers for taking this route. It’s easy because most of the pieces are already there. It’s easy because the visual impression is already proven. It’s easy because, well, there’s no thinking involved - let’s take one of our cars and make it a hybrid.

But let’s take a look at my choice IF hydrogen will take another decade to come around AND I would invest in a… eh-hem… hybrid.

Ladies and gentlemen… I bring you The Karma… Fisker’s Karma - the $85,000 hybrid. You can visit the company’s site here (http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com). It’s quite possibly one of the most stunning car designs I’ve seen and it does not disappoint from any angle. It has a 50 mile range on pure battery with a small engine to continue your course. Decent 0-60 number at sub 6 seconds with a maximum speed of 125mph. It’s not a supercar by any means - but I would put my money that this car would get you a date (unlike an Insight or the precious Prius).

Is it practical? Oh hell no. You want to be practical, take the bus. As for me, I want - no… I need me some good Karma.