Nice initiative, this website!
I am from The Netherlands and have been on the waiting list for a Karma since January 2008 (just before it was introduced in Detroit). #217, so hope to be driving this stunning car in March or April of 2011. I heard production should reach 1000 units per month fairly quickly after February 2011, so hopefully the wait won't be much longer for people further down the list.
Some 'inside information' I got from my dealer: production will be for the US and Europe/world in alternate weeks. So week 1 US, week 2 Europe, week 3 US, week 4 Europe. This makes sense, as the trim will differ slightly.
Test drives should be possible in october/november, according to the dealer.
What I'm still trying to figure out is what the difference will be between the Basic-version and the Sport-version. The only difference I could find is fewer exterior colours to choose from (only two) and fake leather versus real leather (my dealer said the fake leather should also look and feel very good). I wonder if there are ay other differences which would explain the difference in price (of about 8000 dollar; 6000 euro).
Fisker is still giving a figure of 1600 for orders so far, but I am guessing this number is at least 3 times higher. The 1600 must be people that ordered directly at Fisker. For my dealer this is 12 people. But he has already taken 30-40 extra orders, which do no appear on the official Fisker-list. If this is true for every dealer the number must be much higher than 1600 by now.
If it is 3000-4000, then that is a huge number, especially at this stage where no customer has actually driven a production car yet and no one has seen it on the road yet!! The future looks bright for Fisker.
