Do not buy a Fisker Karma Hybrid.
Bad Karma: Our Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid breaks down Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-techand now its broken. We have owned our car for just a few days; it has less than 200 miles on its odometer. While doing speedometer calibration runs on our test track (a procedure we do for every test car before putting it in service by driving the car at a constant 65 mph between two measured points), the dashboard flashed a message and sounded a bing showing a major fault. Our technician got the car off the track and put it into Park to go through the owners manual to interpret the warning. At that point, the transmission went into Neutral and wouldnt engage any gear through its electronic shifter except Park and Neutral. We encountered other problems with a Karma press car that visited the track for a few hours, and we have heard of problems at press events. In addition, we see that some owners are experiencing a variety of issues, as evidenced by forums such as FiskerBuzz.com. http://autos.yahoo.com/news/bad-karma--our-fisker-karma-plug-in-hybrid-breaks-down.html Just as an aside, Fisker Karma received $529 million from the Department of Energy to develop this car *in Finland. *No jobs created or saved for the citizens footing the bill. * * Nice article about the Karma here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2011/10/20/update-fisker-karma-electric-car-gets-worse-mileage-than-an-suv/ Love the caption on the picture: Electric Car for the 1% J - They'd rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich. - Margaret That ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348319 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
