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Go to PARCAR and ask them for a 2 day demo. They will bring one by your house and you can test it for a couple days and then decide for yourself

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Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 1050399)

I've driven golf carts for over 50 years playing and coaching golf. So that it's new and fun to drive was not true for me.

When we rented here we had a gas cart. Compared to a Smart Car, that's roughing it. We were cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Rain meant zipping down, with smells, noise, no NPR to listen to. Now with a car, from Brownwood where I live I have 301 to get me on the other end of town in 20 minutes not an hour. Now I walk the execs, rent or share a cart on the champs. I'm never cold when I get to a course. If I get caught in a rainstorm on the course I can put on the heat in the car. When the sun beats you up in the Summer, the AC cools me off on the way home.

When we bought, before we sold, we couldn't buy a cart. We postponed the purchase. I leased a Smart Car and bought an e-bike. This combination turned out to be the best. My leased Smart Car cost me less than $1500 a year and I save quite a bit on gas compared to my old car, a Subaru wagon. The bike cost $1,600 and virtually nothing to charge.

The Smart Car is no bigger than a cart and I can get to 15 execs in less than 10 minutes anytime of the year. Now I don't want a cart.

Hi tomwed:

I made that same observation on these pages more than once over the years. You could actually live here without owning a cart and not miss a thing. The only time I use my cart on executive is if the wife decides that she wants to ride on that particular day; albeit we both prefer to walk the executives. As to championships rental carts here are quite reasonable.

When you compare what you can buy a new car for these days vis a vis a cart it is somewhat staggering to find many people upgrading to a price that equates to the value of a car. But then we all have different priorities, needs and wants. I certain I am doing some sort of spending that others would not do.

Personal Best Regards:

Looks like all good posts for gas and electric. We have a gas and buy ethanol free gasoline at Gordon's Garage in Sumter Landing. I've found the difference in ethanol free, even paying a bit of a premium, is night and day as opposed to buying gasoline with ethanol.

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Originally Posted by Steve & Deanna (Post 1071241)

What difference does ethanol free fuel do to improve your cart?

What brand of cart do you have? My wife put a tank full of ethanol free in our Yamaha about 6 months ago. I could not detect a difference. Yamaha does not recommend using fuel above 10% ethanol (yes, they make such stuff) so the 10% ethanol is fine. You can expect about 3% better gas mileage with ethanol free. We use regular, 10% ethanol.

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Originally Posted by Steve & Deanna (Post 1071241)

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Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 1071499)

What difference does ethanol free fuel do to improve your cart?

My car also runs better after I change the oil and clean it [emoji106]🏻

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Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 1049619)

Enjoy all the responses you will be receiving!!!!!!!

Gas people love gas, Electric people love electric.

You should rent both and decide.

Gas people like not running out of power in the 32 square mile bubble.
Electric people like the lack of smell in the tunnels and garages.

Definitely 48v. Just my opinion (:22yikes:)..8 Six Volt configuration.

Then you must decide.........new vs. used. If used, from a Villager or a dealer. Reconditioned or not.

Do a search on this site, there have been a lot of threads on this.

Good Luck.

As always, DeWilson gives sage advice.

We have one of each. One has a tow rope.

There are eleven pages of threads on this subject;

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...rchid=10695728