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Fisker karma Review

Written By: admin on August 28, 2011 No Comment


the Fisker Karma is making its way in to the hands of real customers. And real cars means the opportunity to review the Karma, something a US Fisker dealer has put on video.

Of course, a video review of Henrik Fisker’s baby from a franchised dealer – even when they get a pro driver to do it – is perhaps never going to be the most objective piece of reporting ever seen, but it does at least give us the opportunity for a real-world view of the Karma.

It’s known we don’t think much of electric cars, and hybrids are but a stop-gap sop to the eco-mentalist brigade. But if you’re going to build a hybrid then the range-extender is the way to go.

Making it a plug-in also brings the opportunity for some chunky tax breaks too, which makes the Fisker Karma very appealing as a company car. It has performance on a par with a 3.0 TDV6 XJ but, unlike the Jaguar, it will be entirely free of BIK for UK business users.

The fact the Fisker Karma will probably cost £100k in the UK is off-putting – as perhaps is the likely chunky depreciation – but with businesses able to write the Karma down entirely in year one and employees (read directors of self-owned companies) paying no tax to have the Karma at their disposal, it should sell very well.

The Karma looks good too, but that’s down to Henrik Fisker – a former Aston Martin design man. It perhaps even holds its own in the looks v performance v credibility balance that we all address when we decide what to buy.

True, for £100k its performance is poor. But Henrik Fisker thinks he can better utilise the Karma’s immense torque with new gearbox software which – he says – could cut the 0-60mph time in half. If he can do that, the Karma will seem a real luxury bargain. But, just like every electric car – range-extender or not – it’s a rich-man’s toy.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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