After reading the road test on the Fisker Karma in the last (March 2012) issue of Car and Driver, I submitted this commentary to the editors:
“If Fisker was a company funded by private investors rather than US taxpayers (and yet unborn citizens as far as the eye can see), I would salute them — at least for their bravery if not for their brains. But having blown 529 million to produce a heavy awkward inconvenient electric sled that looks like Ollie, (of Kukla, Fran and...) all I can foresee is bankruptcy in Fisker’s future. Solyndra II. Even if they find 1250 Hollywood-type idiots at the asking price of $104,000 + or -, Fisker will still owe us the taxpayers about 380 million. What are those suckers who bypassed a Mercedes going to do in two or three years when “Ollie” is broke? It’s a bit too heavy for wall art.
The Green stupidity rolls on....”
You’re dead on the money. Same goes for the Chevy Volt and all EV’s.
If a company can manufacture a product that the public wants, can afford, and that company is not subsidized by taxpayers nor the buyers given tax credits to buy the product, more power to them.