Anyone driven a Fisker Karma ?

[sundayjumper]

I had totally forgotten about these.

Has anyone here driven, or even sat in one ? I know they're LHD-only. I'm curious about interior space, I'm quite tall and often struggle to fit into cars. If these are tiny inside I shall go back to forgetting all about them

[Moonpie21]

Loved these, always wanted one, could never afford and I think they had issues like setting on fire.

But in theory and looks lovely things. Re-released now as this:

https://www.karmaautomotive.com/revero

Judging by their website still can't afford and lost some of the novelties of recycled interior for something more premium.

Fisker is apparently lining up to do the EMotion EV which I also love the look of:

https://www.fiskerinc.com/blog/ces-debut

But all pipe dreams...

[ajprice]

It was an interesting car. 4 ads in the classifieds, 3 ads for the same car in America for around $48k, one here for just under £80k. Or it's £42k for a 2010 AM Rapide, £63k for a 2013 big grille model (yeah I know they're not hybrid like the Fisker).

[sundayjumper]

I wasn't planning on buying the £80k one

If you look to Europe they're as low as €25k. Cheap flight to Holland or Germany and drive it home. That makes it quite interesting.

CLICKY

(until we leave the EU and there's a huge import duty on used vehicles...)

Edited by sundayjumper on Wednesday 19th December 09:32

[audi321]

That is tempting! Some car for the money

[85Carrera]

sundayjumper]Cheap flight to Holland or Germany and drive it home[/footnote said:

Better off getting a return flight. Won’t have the range to get you home - unless you want to spend the odd half day charging it up

[Doofus]

sundayjumper said:

I wasn't planning on buying the £80k one

If you look to Europe they're as low as €25k. Cheap flight to Holland or Germany and drive it home. That makes it quite interesting.

CLICKY

(until we leave the EU and there's a huge import duty on used vehicles...)

Edited by sundayjumper on Wednesday 19th December 09:32

I'd be nervous about buying an 80,000 mile EV with no spares backup.

[sundayjumper]

85Carrera said:

Better off getting a return flight. Won’t have the range to get you home - unless you want to spend the odd half day charging it up

It’s a hybrid. You can put petrol in it.

[gangzoom]

sundayjumper said:

It’s a hybrid. You can put petrol in it.

Last time I checked Fiskers reliability makes Tesla look like Lexus. I suspect if anything goes wrong your have to source your own repairs etc. It will be worth investigating who can work on these cars before getting one.

[sundayjumper]

gangzoom said:

Last time I checked Fiskers reliability makes Tesla look like Lexus.

I have a V10 Touareg, a Porsche 996 and an Aston Vantage. Tell me more about this idea of "reliability"

Anyway, back on topic, has anyone here ever sat in a Fisker ??

[gangzoom]

sundayjumper said:

I have a V10 Touareg, a Porsche 996 and an Aston Vantage. Tell me more about this idea of "reliability"

Anyway, back on topic, has anyone here ever sat in a Fisker ??

All those cars are still basically the same under the bonnet, any garage can work on them. The Fisker is a serial hybrid, am pretty sure 100% of car garages in my local area will have no idea what that term means let alone how to fix one.

If you really want one just buy one go for it and let us know how you get on .

Edited by gangzoom on Saturday 22 December 11:44

[sundayjumper]

For <£30k I'm quite tempted to take a chance on one, however the issue of driver headroom / leg room is very important to me, and I don't fancy flying to Europe just to sit in one, be disappointed and come home again, hence asking on here...

sundayjumper said:

I'm curious about interior space, I'm quite tall and often struggle to fit into cars. If these are tiny inside I shall go back to forgetting all about them

[FourWheelDrift]

One just sold for $37,000 at the Barrett Jackson auction at Palm Beach. On the Discovery Turbo channel.

[dvs_dave]

I’ve had a go on one a good few years ago. I’m 6’8” and it had plenty of room for me. Behind me not so great, but only LWB saloon cars are effective there.

I love the looks of them, and the interior was nice. Built quality decent enough. Driving wise, it seemed to ride and handle well, but felt heavy (this was compared to a 4.2L Audi A8L I had at the time). It wasn’t as quick as I was expecting , and my old A8 would have shown it a clean pair of heels. The electric drivetrain was unrefined and clunky, with the generator being noisy and rather incongruous with the rest of the package.

I was impressed with it at the time, as it was so different and cool looking. But it felt like a prototype that was only 80% done. It could have been so much better with a bit more R&D.

I soon after drove a Tesla and was blown away by it. It was so much better than the Fisker in practically every way. Put it this way, if Fisker ditched the hybrid part and could put a Tesla drivetrain in their car, they’d have been onto a winner.