Fisker Karma

[hattaresguy]

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: hattaresguy
You will be able to afford one in another year or so. Just hope you are mechanically inclined enough to keep it running on your own.


Mechanically and ELECTRICALLY inclined! Bring your multimeter...


Having owned a few oddball vehicles the biggest problem quickly becomes finding parts. Say you break the cup holder or a door handle...well Fisker is DOA, and their are not enough of them to find one in the junk yard. Now you have to get creative.

Say you want shocks, well now you have to do some research and find what shock they used and if you can get it. Worst case you have to send the old ones out to Bilstein to get copied. Same with brakes, did Fisker lift their brakes off another vehicle? Glass? If you break a windshield is a new one going to be custom or did they lift that off another car?


A Fisker might be a fun hobby car for an engineer who likes to play with electric cars, other than that? Why spend the money? IMHO they are worth about $10k.

 

[surfstar]

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: surfstar
Originally Posted By: gofast182
Yet that doesn't stop them from tossing all of their (our) freshly printed money into the stock market to prop it up in the face of otherwise dangerous economic conditions.



You mean like bailouts and TARP?


You can't be serious?

Someone who does not know that we print money to buy our own bonds to prop up the stock market? Absolutely insane strategy IMO.


Only a third of Americans (34%) correctly say the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was enacted by the Bush administration.
source

I wouldn't count on what the average American "knows" as "fact".
Was TARP horrible? Was QE horrible? ACA?

The real answer will not be known for decades.