Valmet Automotive has won a contract to engineer and manufacture a luxury golf car for Garia A/S of Denmark.  Production will begin in the third quarter of 2009 and the vehicle is expected to be on the market in 2009.

Garia Golf Car

Total production is expected to be a “few thousand” per year in the next few years.  Valmet reports that it is investing two million euros and committing 50 people to the project.  A test fleet is already in use at a golf course in Denmark.  The electric golf car will be introduced at PGA Las Vegas in late August and then in the Middle East.

In April of 2008 Garia, which was founded in 2005 to build high end golf cars, opened sales offices in the U.S. with plans to have 15 to 20 dealers within a year.  The company is targeting the luxury golf car segment in Florida, Georgia, California and Arizona.

Valmet has previously produced vehicles for Porsche and recently won a contract to produce the Fisker Karma hybrid vehicle.  Learn more