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Old 04-17-2023, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by tophcfa View Post
Good thing there aren’t any hills in the Villages. Traveling throughout the entire Villages in our quiet tech with high speed gears, I have only once noticed a decline in power relative to our 2014 EFI. That would be going over the golf cart bridge crossing 441. A small price to pay for a quiet ride, close to 300 miles per 5 gallon fill up, great handling rack and pinion steering, and bump absorbing four wheel independent suspension. Running a cart at high RPM’s without high speed gears for thousands of miles can’t be a good thing for the engine in the long run.
Might want to check your odometer. 300 miles with 5 gallons is 60 MPG. Per dealer they get around 35 MPG. I have always exceeded the EPA MPG estimates and in the cart I probably do get around 35 MPG.