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Originally Posted by Michael G.
We are concerning our 1st golf car and own a SUV with one driver in our house.
We also don't know anything about Hybrid cars.
I came up with this idea:
Wouldn't it be feasible to just buy a hybrid car (any size) which uses battery's for
short trips, same as an electric golf car?
Pros:
Maintaining one vehicle instead of two.
There would be one insurance premium to pay.
Garage one vehicle.
We would be in AC all the time.
Available for longer road trips.
Carry more grocery's.
Cons:
Couldn't use it on trails or golf courses.
If there were two drivers that needed transportation, this wouldn't work.
We would get the best of both worlds.
Your Thought Please
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To each his or her own, but if I had to choose between a golf cart and a car for the Villages I would definitely take the golf cart. During my 3 1/2 month stay last winter I used the car five times, once to look at the new golf cart we bought in Webster, twice to bring our bikes south of 44 to ride on the pathways, and twice to get some fresh seafood at the lighthouse fish market on 466. Other than that it was 100% golf cart use, including swimming laps at every sports pool in the Villages, playing every Championship course in the Villages, and playing about 2/3 of the Executive courses. No problems doing all shopping, dinning out or getting takeout, going to town squares, etc… all with a cart. Granted, I might think differently living south of 44, but living north of 466 there is really no reason to have a car for daily needs. The only reason I feel a need to have a car is to have access to decent health care if unexpectedly needed, so I could go to Gainesville. I put about 100 hours on the new quiet tech and about 50 hours on the old Yamaha EFI over the winter and probably less than 100 miles on the car.