{"id":1153,"date":"2010-04-13T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2010-04-13T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:35:28","slug":"golf-car-manufacturers-targeting-lsv-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/golf-car-manufacturers-targeting-lsv-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Car Manufacturers Targeting LSV Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local newspaper story in Georgia, home state of the leading golf car manufacturers, recently ran a story about their move into the LSV market.?? The story focuses mainly on the leaders in the golf car market, Club Car and E-Z-Go. Club Car introduced their passenger version of the Villager 2+2 late last year and E-Z-Go will be introducing their LSV later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Club Car was able to take advantage of market demand driven by federal tax credits, especially in Oklahoma.?? E-Z-Go chose not to rush the development schedule of their LSV to take advantage of the tax credit.?? Instead, they are looking to enter the market with a vehicle with distinctive features.?? One feature we have learned about for the vehicle is four wheel hydraulic brakes.<br \/>\nNot mentioned in the story is entry of smaller golf car manufacturers into LSV market such as Fairplay.<\/p>\n<p>The move into the LSV market is driven by a number of factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golf cars are already being sold into the gated community market where LSVs are also sold<\/li>\n<li>There is growing market opportunity as an increasing number of LSVs are sold outside of gated communities<\/li>\n<li>The decline in the golf course driven segment of the market is forcing golf car companies to look for new areas of growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Golf Car Manufacturrers Move Into LSV Market\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/news\/business\/2010-04-02\/golf-car-makers-put-more-emphasis-street-vehicles?v=1270329741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Augusta Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local newspaper story in Georgia, home state of the leading golf car manufacturers, recently ran a story about their move into the LSV market.?? The story focuses mainly on the leaders in the golf car market, Club Car and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/golf-car-manufacturers-targeting-lsv-market\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,12,13,14,18,19],"tags":[273,382,431,2176,772],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-golf-car","category-management","category-market-entrants","category-market-trends","category-nev","category-new-vehicle","tag-club-car","tag-e-z-go","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-golf-car","tag-lsv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}