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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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To: Zakeet
Fisker dispatched two engineers Wednesday night to examine the car.

You mean if I buy one and it breaks down, they'll send a couple engineers out to fix it? I'm impressed. What customer service!

Oh, these are the two guys who designed the thing?

21 posted on 03/09/2012 2:28:06 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

At least they have better customer service than Tesla. After a half dozen Tesla Roadster owners bricked their new cars by mismanaging the battery charge state, Tesla informed them that the only fix was a battery replacement, at a cost of $45,000 each.


22 posted on 03/09/2012 2:49:47 AM PST by Haiku Guy ("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Lancey Howard

Hey, DE auto workers, how good has that 0bambi guy been for you? Chrysler plant - sold to University of Delaware for pennies on the dollar and GM Boxwood plant - supposedly to build Fiskers, gathering dust and property taxes gone.

Go ahead, keep voting for the RATs; they care SOOO much about you./s


23 posted on 03/09/2012 2:53:26 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Zakeet

Look at the bright side of this, the tires and brakes will last a long, long time!


24 posted on 03/09/2012 2:53:30 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Zakeet
Well, the car is beautiful.

I think they ought to throw a big ol' V8 in it and recoup their investment.

25 posted on 03/09/2012 2:55:19 AM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: Zakeet

This car is only half the price of a $250,000 Dolt!


26 posted on 03/09/2012 3:30:26 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Zakeet

Maybe they can just chnage the name to the Fisker Bad JuJu.


27 posted on 03/09/2012 3:34:16 AM PST by almcbean
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To: Zakeet

Not the only one to break down, either.

http://jalopnik.com/5891708/why-are-fisker-karmas-breaking-down


28 posted on 03/09/2012 3:39:43 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: cynwoody

I read that Justin Beiber bought one too.

Beiber is said to be a singer.


29 posted on 03/09/2012 3:41:22 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Fresh Wind

He can afford to drive a gas hog.

http://jalopnik.com/5851735/how-fisker-got-500-million-in-government-loans-for-a-fuel-economy-flop


30 posted on 03/09/2012 3:42:48 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Zakeet

President Algae.


31 posted on 03/09/2012 3:53:18 AM PST by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: RightOnline
Please, Mr. Champion.....allow me to fix your Understatement of the Year thusly:

Well Played !

32 posted on 03/09/2012 3:53:48 AM PST by Mopp4
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To: Zakeet

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/fisker-karma-goes-bad-consumer-reports-adds-list-213448222.html

“Driving at 7pm pst this evening and for the second time in two weeks at 70 miles per hour the “idiot lights” behind the steering wheel all light up the car goes dark including the headlights and then the dash disappears and after a few seconds it rebuilds itself. This is very dangerous and random...This condition is a safety issue and an accident/lawsuit waiting to happen.”

“As of today (March 6, 2012) Fisker Silicon Valley has had my Karma “in the shop” longer than I have driven the car. And the prospect of having it in the shop for another 2 weeks (or possibly longer) is making me really unhappy.”


33 posted on 03/09/2012 3:57:52 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ltc8k6

I am drained from laughing at the green morons. Unfortunately, they are also draining taxpayers’ wallets.


34 posted on 03/09/2012 4:59:15 AM PST by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Zakeet

Nice looking car if you could figure out how to drop in a turbo 6 and a 6 speed manual transmission.


35 posted on 03/09/2012 8:26:11 AM PST by PAR35
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