That's an impressive fail.. I was looking for a "Yugo" logo on the car in the pics :)
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:348320 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
