More Bad Karma

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The new Fisker Karma has been rated a... subcompact by the EPA. This, despite the fact that it is 16.5ft long and weighs 5,300lbs... for comparison, that is a foot LONGER and almost the same weight as my '96 Chevy Tahoe...

The hilarious part is, that this govt. funded savior of the environment only gets... 20mpg, when it is running on gas. It can go about 40 miles on electric power - which means like all these range extended vehicles - real world mileage will vary. If you commute 10 miles to work... great. If you take this thing on the highway... you would have been better off getting a Corvette, because that gets 26mpg highway. Oh yeah, and it's actually a sports car, not an something which can get beat by an old Buick (the Karma only has 175hp to move that ton of mass around).

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