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Posted on April 3, 2009
Filed Under Electric Vehicles, Fisker Karma, Tesla Model S | 1 Comment
Tesla Motors, the California Automotive start up thats only car is a electronic roadster, promised that they’d have a showroom in Miami by the end of March. Hasn’t happened yet, but they swear they’re working on it.
Seems competition in the eco-friendly roadster market is heating up, as the makers of the Fisker Karma are now preparing to release their car to the public. The Karma, a plug-in hybrid, is reported to get up to 100mpg in some circumstances, and can reach a top speed of 125 mph. It goes 0 to 60 in a respectable 5.8 seconds (your hippie aunt’s Prius does 10.4 on its better days. Though the Tesla Roadster can do it in 3.7). All that for the low, low price of only $87,900 …well it’s cheaper than the Tesla.
Fisker begin taking pre-orders last month, and today announced a network of 32 American dealers that will carry the car, including Warren Henry Automobiles in Miami. They’ll begin delivering on private orders later this year, and should have cars in showrooms by 2009. Once production revs up to full speed the company hopes to produce 15,000 cars a year.
SOURCE: Miami News Times
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Are any of our car manufacturers smart enough to design and make an attractive, performance leaning, hynrid??? Toyota has leaned in this direction with a recent concept model; looked like an older model Celica with some new body lines and such. I know it is just a matter of time before we see a quality version in production for less than $30K… My wife can drive our Camry Hybrid, I will sacrifice and drive the coupe…