Henrik Fisker, the founder of Fisker Automotive, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Aston Martin for civil extortion. Fisker claims that Aston Martin threatened to sue him over his new EMotion electric car design, which Aston Martin believes is too similar to its own designs. Fisker argues that Aston Martin’s claims are baseless and that the company is using the threat of a lawsuit to extort money from him. The lawsuit seeks damages for defamation, breach of contract, and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.
This is a classic case of “David vs Goliath “ said Fisker “Aston martin is trying to intimidate me to prop up their own failing company and to mask theri financial and product deficiencies .I refuse to be imidiated and that is the reason of filing “
Fisker is one of the world’s best known automobile designer .Hehas worked in design for many auto manufacturing previous to launching Fisker Automotive in 2007 and Henrik Fisker Design his present company among his most notable designs in addition to the Aston martin’s mentioned are the Fisker karma the BMW Z8 and the Rocket .