Fisker Karmas burn to the ground from hurricane Sandy

[rage2]

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/10/mega-storm-sandy-submerges-16-new.html


The bad news for Fisker continues. Among the many victims of Hurricane and then Tropical Storm Sandy are approximately 16 brand new Fisker Karma extended-range hybrids that were parked in Port Newark, New Jersey.
An eyewitness told Jalopnik (which like the rest of the Gawker websites, continues to be down after Sandy drowned its data center but is broadcasting temporarily from this site), that the Karma sedans “first submerged in a storm surge and then caught fire, exploded.”

Pictures taken on location by the unnamed source show several examples of the $100,000+ luxury sports car burned to the ground.

The cause of the fires remains a mystery for now, but we did contact Fisker and will provide an update as soon as we hear back from them.

The Karma has been the subject of multiple fire investigations, the most recent of which concerned a parked car that spontaneously self-combusted in California in August.

[Xtrema]

Sea water conductivity is much higher. Flood shorted them?

[CanmoreOrLess]

Sweet a $100,000 plus Pinto.

Beautiful cars, one thing after another, bad luck.

[Gripenfelter]

This is why we call her Mother Nature and not Father Nature. Cuz if it were male he wouldn't go around blowing up Fiskers.

[Inzane]

Long live the internal combustion engine!!

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Xtrema
Sea water conductivity is much higher. Flood shorted them?

+1.

Electricity and water never mixes.


Originally posted by Inzane
Long live the internal combustion engine!!

All hail dino-fuel! :clap:

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by Inzane
Long live the internal combustion engine!!


that the Karma sedans “first submerged in a storm surge and then caught fire, exploded.”

Really? You'd want your car back after being flooded? Pretty sure that internal combustion engine wouldn't be too happy about being under sea-water either, lol.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok




Really? You'd want your car back after being flooded? Pretty sure that internal combustion engine wouldn't be too happy about being under sea-water either, lol.

But it's less succeptible for explosions haha.

[eblend]

Sounds like some shitty karma..

One would think that by now they would have tested all the different scenarios, yet these things keep going up in flames. If I was an insurance company....I would soon stop insuring these cars all together

[flipstah]

Originally posted by eblend
Sounds like some shitty karma..



Ha.

[Inzane]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok
Really? You'd want your car back after being flooded?

Not at all. I'm just using this as any excuse to say fuck the green movement and hybrids/electrics.

[e31]

Originally posted by Inzane


Not at all. I'm just using this as any excuse to say fuck the green movement and hybrids/electrics.

Ahem.
http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Porsche-918-Hybrid-5.jpg
http://911nation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/01-porsche-918-rsr-live-e1297384945301.jpeg

[Markll7]

Elon Musk's probably laughing his ass off somewhere right now.

[rage2]

Originally posted by e31
Ahem.
http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Porsche-918-Hybrid-5.jpg
http://911nation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/01-porsche-918-rsr-live-e1297384945301.jpeg
It's kind of a shitty car for well over a mill. I think I'd rather get a Veyron for that price.

[syritis]

I can't wait for electric cars to become more common, so much torque.

[Mar]

They were parked in Newark and it was the flood that got them? I drove through that place, I wouldn't leave my car anywhere in that city without an electronic forcefield around it.

[Supa Dexta]

lithium reacts violently with water