New Fisker Karma Fails Consumer Reports Test

The Fisker Karma is a new electric vehicle that's being prepped for introduction into various markets. Justin Bieber, apparently, received one for his 18th birthday (Bieber's 18?!), but that doesn't change Consumer Reports' test of the vehicle, which couldn't have gone worse. Apparently the testers got the vehicle up to 65 miles per hour and began testing calibration and other things wile in motion, when the car simply "died." The Karma is a plug-in hybrid sports luxury vehicle, apparently, and is priced around $100,000; auto transporters haven't even seen the vehicle yet (not unlike the Tesla "X" that we talked about yesterday, albeit with a lot more problems than Tesla's version), but that doesn't stop them from talking about it. We don't know when it will be released for sale or if the problems with the car suddenly dying will be fixed, but until they are, expect this car to stay out of the headlines.