Fisker to sell 7,000 Karmas this year. On any particular planet?

Fisker are planning to get the first Fisker Karma to customers by July 2011, and expect to sell 7,000 this year. which seems a bit far fetched.

The Fisker Karma does look an impressive car. And it promises a great deal, even if it has been promising a great deal to come very soon for a very long time.

But 2011 is the year the Fisker Karma will start to arrive in customers’ hands, freshly minted in Finland by Valmet Automotive and already to plug in and go for… a number of miles.

Fisker reckon the plug-in range of the Karma is around 50 miles, but as the Karma is a range-extender hybrid and not and EV you won’t be stuck with going no more than 25 miles before you have to come back.

And the Fisker Karma is a good looking car – the least you would expect from a car built by a company owned by a former Design Director for Aston Martin – and offers a high-end, four-door, swoopy-coupe boasting 80-mpg and 83g/km. None of which you’ll ever really get.

The trouble is that the Fisker Karma will be a $90k car in the States and probably £80k when it gets here. And if Henrik Fisker is expecting to sell more than 7,000 in 2011 and 15,000 in 2012, we think he’s living in cuckoo land.

Maybe when the two-door Karma and the convertible Karma come on-stream by 2013 (possibly) that number looks more achievable. And when the smaller Fisker – Project NINA – chips in some sales figures at around the $50k / £45k  ballpark sticker price then those numbers look do-able.

But for now, a start-up company having its car made by a third-party in Finland expects to sell more cars in its first year than Tesla has sold since it started.

It seems a bit less than credulous to us.