Still on fence, leaning towards NON street
Interesting thread, for what it is worth here is what I found....
I am attracted to the deal so I went down to Par Car. The info I got at Par Car was the tax credit was $5475.71. I was told insurance was around $400 per year and the saleman had heard it would drop to $200 in a few years <wink><wink>. I did a quick call to the Villages insurance and was given numbers that ranged from $600 - $1200 per year, there was no mention of a drop. I did not dig too deep and I would be very interested in anyone that actually has insurance on the real number they pay. There is quite a difference between $600 and $1200.
Based on the numbers I got would be a yearly cost of $600++ for insurance + $ 60 for registration. I figured about $370 in the first year to register it. Call it $700 per year at the optimistic end.
BTW, a new Par Car street cart is $11,551 including ALL costs. A non street cart at Par Car is around $1500 cheaper.
I am not recommending a Par Car, but they offered both a street cart and a non street cart for comparison.
This is a no brainier if you want a street legal cart, but in my case I was looking at a street legal cart for the tax credit only. I am very much on the fence as my decision I have to compare the cost of the street legal cart minus credit + other costs to what I could buy a non street cart for.
Unless I am off I would say the NON street cart starts to become cheaper in the 5 - 6 year period.
Alan
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