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I have been driving my Karma for about 5 months now and really wonder how somebody can make such a mess of the design of stuff inside the car compared to the design outside the car.
I guess that we all agree that the Fisker is a beauty to see. EXTERNALLY!
But once you own it, you get irritated everyday by the terrible design of things that are so user unfriendly!
Storage Box
What to think of the storage box between the front seats. Who has decided that the hinge of the cover has to be be at the back side? USELESS! You can hardly get any stuff from there when you are driving. The hinge should have been on the right side so that all space is available to the driver!
Iphone storage space
There are cups with a bottom that can hold your mobile phone. But the charger must be plugged into the storage box. So your charging cable must be coming from underneath the cover of the storage box and it can't close this way. USELESS! The charging cable should have been coming from the bottom of the cupholder so that your Iphone can be safely placed in the cupholder and charged at the same time.
Hands Fee Bluetooth
I can be short on this: terrible! Bad sound, a serious quality department would never have accepted a car brought to the market with this sound quality. Let alone a car in this price range!
I use a Bluetooth Plantronics ear/mic as an alternative because the Iphone connection is USELESS. Works well with one exception: when you dial the number the audio is muted. But once the connection is made the audio (Radio) returns to its state before dialing. USELESS!
NAV System
Same as Bluetooth phone. Worse than terrible. It is a 2000-2002 system from a low market segment car. Bad maps. Lots of bugs and strange message windows. Sometimes a blanked green screen. Who decided that you have to click a confirm button a thousand times at unnecessary moments when planning a route? USELESS.
Board Computer
The whole system is so slow that you press buttons twice as there is no response. And when you do that, the whole system gets upset.
Board computer is useless. Who decided that the kilometers/miles counter continue to count and the gas consumption is calculated when you are driving in stealth mode? The fuel consumption should be calculated only for the km's that are driven in Sport Mode. The display shows 20 km's per litre but that is not true when you don't use any fuel as your are driving on electricity.
If you calculate the fuel consumption only when driving in Sport Mode (and using fuel) it hardly becomes better than 8 or 9 kms per litre! USELESS
To conclude: it really is a terrible car and I DO hope that new software updates will be available to solve most of these issues. If not, this is my last Fisker.
I guess that we all agree that the Fisker is a beauty to see. EXTERNALLY!
But once you own it, you get irritated everyday by the terrible design of things that are so user unfriendly!
Storage Box
What to think of the storage box between the front seats. Who has decided that the hinge of the cover has to be be at the back side? USELESS! You can hardly get any stuff from there when you are driving. The hinge should have been on the right side so that all space is available to the driver!
Iphone storage space
There are cups with a bottom that can hold your mobile phone. But the charger must be plugged into the storage box. So your charging cable must be coming from underneath the cover of the storage box and it can't close this way. USELESS! The charging cable should have been coming from the bottom of the cupholder so that your Iphone can be safely placed in the cupholder and charged at the same time.
Hands Fee Bluetooth
I can be short on this: terrible! Bad sound, a serious quality department would never have accepted a car brought to the market with this sound quality. Let alone a car in this price range!
I use a Bluetooth Plantronics ear/mic as an alternative because the Iphone connection is USELESS. Works well with one exception: when you dial the number the audio is muted. But once the connection is made the audio (Radio) returns to its state before dialing. USELESS!
NAV System
Same as Bluetooth phone. Worse than terrible. It is a 2000-2002 system from a low market segment car. Bad maps. Lots of bugs and strange message windows. Sometimes a blanked green screen. Who decided that you have to click a confirm button a thousand times at unnecessary moments when planning a route? USELESS.
Board Computer
The whole system is so slow that you press buttons twice as there is no response. And when you do that, the whole system gets upset.
Board computer is useless. Who decided that the kilometers/miles counter continue to count and the gas consumption is calculated when you are driving in stealth mode? The fuel consumption should be calculated only for the km's that are driven in Sport Mode. The display shows 20 km's per litre but that is not true when you don't use any fuel as your are driving on electricity.
If you calculate the fuel consumption only when driving in Sport Mode (and using fuel) it hardly becomes better than 8 or 9 kms per litre! USELESS
To conclude: it really is a terrible car and I DO hope that new software updates will be available to solve most of these issues. If not, this is my last Fisker.