Karma has swapped four round air vents for rectangular ones and tucked them into a black horizontal strip across the dashboard. That is the biggest change inside the 2027 Gyesera Grand Coupe.
Anyone who has sat in a Revero, the car the Gyesera replaces, will recognize the rest of the cabin.
Familiar is a loaded word at Karma. This is the small California company that rose from the wreckage of Fisker Automotive in 2014, and it has spent the years since trying to prove it is more than a salvage operation with good taste.
The Gyesera is its latest attempt. It is a four-door plug-in hybrid, and Car and Driver’s Caleb Miller has now spent time inside it.
His strongest praise goes to the materials. The cabin uses Bridge of Weir leather and Alcantara suede, and Miller says they feel high-end.
That matters for a car wearing a Grand Coupe badge. Buyers at this price touch everything, and Karma has clearly spent money where fingertips land.
The seats are another matter. Miller calls the buckets cool-looking but rather narrow.
The headrests don’t adjust, and they sit too low. Karma redesigned the vents and carried these seats over anyway.
That is a strange set of priorities. In a grand tourer, the seat is the one thing you can’t ignore for more than a few minutes.
The screens show the same half-finished progress. A 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster sits ahead of the driver, and a 10.1-inch touchscreen handles most functions.
That touchscreen is mounted low in the center console. Since most controls live there, the driver’s eyes have to drop to use them.
Behind the steering wheel, Karma got something right. The right paddle adjusts regenerative braking, and the left one changes drive modes.
On a plug-in hybrid, putting regen on a paddle is the smart move. You manage energy recovery with a flick of a finger instead of digging through menus.
The center console runs the length of the cabin and extends into the rear. It carves the car into four distinct seats, which suits the long, low shape Karma has always sold.
Inside that console are a wireless charger and two USB-C ports. Keeping them out of sight keeps the surfaces clean.
None of this is a clean-sheet redesign. The Gyesera interior is an edit of the Revero, with new vents, modern charging hardware and a new name on the outside.
Karma has never had the scale to start from scratch every time. It works with what it has, and the Gyesera shows both the upside and the limits of that approach.
The leather is good enough for a reviewer to single it out. The seats are narrow enough for the same reviewer to single them out too.
So the 2027 Gyesera arrives with premium hides, a tidier dash and headrests that stay exactly where the factory bolted them. Karma fixed the vents, but the seats are still waiting.
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