We are sick and tired of you deciding for us. We can do much better ourselves!Consumer Reports' $100K Fisker Karma dies on arrival
Mar 08, 2012 -By James R. Healey, USA TODAY
Ooooh, that is bad Karma.
A six-figure Fisker Karma electrified sedan broke duringConsumer Reports check-in period, before the magazine even could begin testing it, delivering another black eye to the struggling automaker.
"Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it's broken," the magazine lamented in its blog today in an item headlined "Bad Karma." ...
We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has finished our check-in process.
Last month, Fisker ran dry of federal loan money and had to stop work at a former GM plant in Delaware it promised to revive. It laid off 26 people from the skeleton crew working there, and also began earlier-than-planned layoffs of several dozen engineers at its headquarters in California.
The Department of Energy had halted loan cash to Fisker last May because the company failed to meet production and sales commitments it made to obtain the $529 million DOE loan. The company has been unsuccessful in re-negotiating the loan terms.
An activist group called Judicial Watch said last month it is suing the government to get the secret details of the Fisker loan.
Fisker says it's trying to raise money privately.
And late last month, company founder Henrik Fisker stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Tom LaSorda, formerly CEO at Chrysler Group.
Consumer Reports says it still will complete a test of the Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid that's supposed to go up to 33 miles on battery power only, and has a gasoline engine for supplemental power.
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Mar 08, 2012 -By James R. Healey, USA TODAY
Ooooh, that is bad Karma.
A six-figure Fisker Karma electrified sedan broke duringConsumer Reports check-in period, before the magazine even could begin testing it, delivering another black eye to the struggling automaker.
"Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it's broken," the magazine lamented in its blog today in an item headlined "Bad Karma." ...
We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has finished our check-in process.
Last month, Fisker ran dry of federal loan money and had to stop work at a former GM plant in Delaware it promised to revive. It laid off 26 people from the skeleton crew working there, and also began earlier-than-planned layoffs of several dozen engineers at its headquarters in California.
The Department of Energy had halted loan cash to Fisker last May because the company failed to meet production and sales commitments it made to obtain the $529 million DOE loan. The company has been unsuccessful in re-negotiating the loan terms.
An activist group called Judicial Watch said last month it is suing the government to get the secret details of the Fisker loan.
Fisker says it's trying to raise money privately.
And late last month, company founder Henrik Fisker stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Tom LaSorda, formerly CEO at Chrysler Group.
Consumer Reports says it still will complete a test of the Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid that's supposed to go up to 33 miles on battery power only, and has a gasoline engine for supplemental power.
-more at link-
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