---
title: "Faraday Future’s Tesla-Fighting SUV Spotted in the Wild"
description: "It seems the Model X is about to get a new electric competitor."
date: "2016-08-23"
modified: "2016-08-23"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/4967/faraday-futures-tesla-fighting-suv-spotted-in-the-wild"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "faraday"
  - "model x"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Faraday Future’s Tesla-Fighting SUV Spotted in the Wild

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Elon Musk, better start watching your six. After years of lofty promises, electric carmaker [Faraday Future's first production car has been spotted](<https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/23/this-could-be-faraday-futures-answer-to-the-tesla-model-x/>) in the wild—and it seems to be a SUV-like vehicle with its sights set on the Model X.

The Faraday Future SUV was apparently spotted in Los Angeles, where it was posted to [Twitter by as man named Everette Taylor](<https://twitter.com/Everette>)—who, according to his Twitter bio, serves as vice-president at [an on-demand car rental service called Skurt](<https://skurt.com>). (No, we'd never heard of it before, either.) But based on his caption, it seems Taylor had no idea that he'd caught a glimpse of the upstart electric car company's new production vehicle wraped in heavy layers of both flush and loose-fitting camouflage. The well-connected folks at *Elektrek*, however, reportedly reached out to a source in the know, who confirmed that [the large crossover or SUV-like vehicle spotted](<https://electrek.co/2016/08/23/faraday-future-suv-vehicle-spotted-picture/>) in the parking lot was indeed the future of Faraday Future.

This vehicle's general crossover-oid shape jives with a report from *The Drive*'s own future-meister Alex Roy, [who caught a glimpse of Faraday's car a while back](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/1513/ive-seen-the-real-faraday-and-you-can-too>) and described it as such:

"\[It's\] something that could fit five to seven people. Something like a Model X, but bigger and cooler and more futuristic...The real Faraday is some kind of insane offspring of a minivan and a Citroën XM. Like a bloated Ford Scorpio or Renault Avantime...It is far more daring and revolutionary than anything from anyone else."

https://twitter.com/\_/status/767865314063228928

In that story, Roy even sketched out a basic sketch of the shape of the car he saw. While Roy admitted he had "crappy car-drawing skills," it's easy to see the basic resemblance between even these preliminary sketches and the camouflaged prototype caught testing in California.

![alex-roy-faraday-future-inline.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/alex-roy-faraday-future-inline.jpg>)
**Alex Roy/TheDrive.com**

Considering Faraday Future has been in the news lately as much for what it hasn't done as what it has—the company's recent [groundbreaking for its Nevada factory in which no ground was actually broken](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/2999/faraday-future-holds-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-1b-nevada-factory>) comes to mind, as does the unveiling of the vapor-tastic FFZero1 concept car at CES in January in lieu of an expected Tesla-fighter—we're glad to see the electric carmaker's plans to roll out a production vehicle appear to be coming along swmmingly.

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)