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Fisker Karma car dies in Consumer Reports testing [Another green machine bites the dust]
Reuters ^
| March 8, 2012
| Ben Klayman
Posted on 03/08/2012 11:17:18 PM PST by Zakeet
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You stupid taxpayers don't need to worry about the money spent on this green crap ... cause we'll make a working hybrid electric golf cart ... eventually ... perhaps
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:17:24 PM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
I have only two things to say:
“Ha!”
and
“Ha!”
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:29:45 PM PST
by
WKTimpco
(Traditional Values Counter Revolution)
To: Zakeet
Imagine how disconcerting the taxpayers’ cost is!
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:36:05 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: WKTimpco
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:39:00 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Zakeet
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:44:57 PM PST
by
DB
To: Zakeet
If we all contributed two cents, maybe we could buy Obummer something electric. And I’m not thinking about a car.
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:48:43 PM PST
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
To: Zakeet
Congressman John Campbell, R-
CA48, reportedly bought one of these a few days ago and raves about it.
Before becoming a congresscritter, Campbell used to be a car dealer.
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:48:48 PM PST
by
cynwoody
To: Zakeet
""It is a little disconcerting that you pay that amount of money for a car and it lasts basically 180 miles before going wrong," David Champion, senior director for the magazine's automotive test center, told Reuters, on Thursday."Please, Mr. Champion.....allow me to fix your Understatement of the Year thusly:
""It is a f**king embarrassment and a cast iron ripoff of the American taxpayers who subsidized this P.O.S. that you pay that amount of money for a car and it lasts basically 180 miles before going wrong," David Champion, senior director for the magazine's automotive test center, told Reuters, on Thursday.
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posted on
03/08/2012 11:51:33 PM PST
by
RightOnline
(I am Andrew Breitbart!)
To: Zakeet
Over the last month, Fisker changed its chief executive and halted work at its U.S. plant as it renegotiates the terms of a $529 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy.So, Ubanga is paying back some more campaign donors, I presume.
To: Zakeet
As my dummy (Barack) and I say, "Screw you, America!"
To: Zakeet
As a practicing Buddhist I think I can authoritatively say...
KARMA!
LOL
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posted on
03/09/2012 12:04:36 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Zakeet
Ugly, uncomfortable looking, crazy overpriced, crooked crony capitalist clown car runs for 180 mile then breaks down.
Well at at least it didn’t blow up like the usual ObamaMobile.
To: Zakeet
Karma's a BITCH !!!
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posted on
03/09/2012 12:23:14 AM PST
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: RightOnline
"It is a little disconcerting that you pay that amount of money for a car and it lasts basically 180 miles before going wrong," David Champion, senior director for the magazine's automotive test center, told Reuters, on Thursday. Developed by former Aston Martin designer Henrik Fisker, the Karma is the first in a planned series of offering from California start-up Fisker Motors. The goal was to develop a striking, high-performance sports car that also could lay claims to being a green machine.
But the official numbers from the EPA dont quite support that. Balancing the cars electric and gasoline performance in a series of simulations the feds came up with a 52 MPGe rating. And while thats on a par with what one might expect from the decidedly slower and less stylish Toyota Prius, its well short of the makers promised 67.2 MPGe, or miles-per-gallon equivalent.
Range, meanwhile, came in at just 32 miles on battery power alone compared to Fiskers anticipated 50 miles per charge.
And since that means the vehicle will likely be driven a lot more often on gasoline power alone the EPAs other figure might be equally disappointing, with the car rated at just 20 miles per gallon in the combined cycle.
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posted on
03/09/2012 12:39:31 AM PST
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Zakeet
All this electric car nonsense is merely Premier Hussein’s version of the Russian Lada.
To: WKTimpco
Wimpy John campbell congressman (R) from CA. was pimping the Fiskar
as a marvelous revolutionary car. I guess he bought one.
What an idiot Rhino!
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:07:50 AM PST
by
ChiMark
(chewed up his body for a decade)
To: Jack Hammer
I have this vision of a commercial where a Ford
Mustang pushes an electric car into a well as
the guy from “300” says...”This is AMERICA!”.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:19:14 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: WKTimpco
What do you expect when the lead designer has less IQ than Homer?
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:58:46 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(Mohammedan law every woman must belong to a man will delay the end of slavery until Islam has ceased)
To: TigersEye
I think their Karma ran over their dogma...
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:00:13 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
I love that one.
I'm sorry but my karma just ran over your dogma.
The first time I saw that joke was a bumper sticker on an old Karmann Ghia in Ft. Collins about 1986. Seemed to fit so well.
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:07:02 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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