- The Faraday Future FF 91 2.0 Futurist Alliance is an ultra-rare and unusual electric SUV.
- Someone is auctioning the fifth example ever built, and doing so without a reserve.
- Despite its rarity, someone put 6k miles on the car, which looks good based on the photos.
Update 2/13: Well, color us surprised. The Bring a Trailer auction has officially ended, and the lightly used Faraday Future FF 91 just sold for a staggering $235,000, before auction fees. After a brief but intense bidding war on Tuesday, February 12, three users took the no-reserve price from $60,000 at 12:42 AM to $235,000 by 12:02PM the same day, where it stayed until the virtual hammer dropped today. So, what do you think, an absurd overpay or a fair price for a piece of EV curiosity?
Faraday Future is in a very strange place. Long dogged by production delays, odd design and strategy decisions, and questionable sales tactics, it’s hoping a high-production sub-brand will save it. Of course, before it launched what we now know as Faraday X, it promised to make 300 of these, the FF 91. That figure never materialized but this example, a 2.0 Futurist Alliance trim, made it out of the factory and now it’s up for auction.
When new, Faraday Future wanted $309,000 for this electric car. It’s unclear if it ever sold any examples for that amount but one way or another, this one is out in the wild and it’s not a garage queen. According to the listing, it boasts 6,200 miles and for the most part, still looks brand new. In fact, it’s a great example of what could have been had Faraday Future found enough buyers for this car.
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The cabin is littered with luxury items including 11 total screens and one that sits ahead of the rear occupants and measures 27 inches in width. Getting into those rear seats is a bit of an event too since the rear doors are rear-hinged. Once back there, the seats themselves feature a zero-gravity design that almost fully reclines and offers calf support.
All of this sits on an electric platform that includes a 142 kWh battery pack and three electric motors with a claimed total of 1,050 horsepower (782 kW) and 1,458 lb-ft (1974 Nm) of torque. The car’s brains? A combination of Qualcomm 8155p and Nvidia Orin X chips, which handle everything from infotainment to driver assistance. Sounds impressive, until you remember who built it.
This is, after all, a car from a brand that seems to be floundering. The auction listing doesn’t include any information about warranty coverage, where one gets this car serviced, and what the process is like. Faraday Future is, as mentioned, still around and trying to pivot to a sub-brand.
In theory, it should have no issue helping the next owner maintain this car. In practice though, buying this car at any price could be risky. As one commenter on The Autopian humorously pointed out, “This is what Fisker customers buy as their unreliable project car.”
As of this writing, the highest bid on on Bring a Trailer sits at $36,000 – a far cry from its original asking price. We can’t wait to see where this one ends.
