{"id":183,"date":"2009-01-28T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-01-28T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T16:45:32","slug":"valmet-to-manufacture-luxury-golf-car-for-garia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/28\/valmet-to-manufacture-luxury-golf-car-for-garia\/","title":{"rendered":"Valmet To Manufacture Luxury Golf Car For Garia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Garia Golf Car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garia.dk\/files\/news_images\/04_at_ledreborg_parked_0.jpg\" alt=\"Garia Golf Car\" width=\"325\" height=\"217\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garia Golf Car<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Total production is expected to be a &#8220;few thousand&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>In April of 2008 Garia, which was founded in 2005 to build high end golf cars, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garia.dk\/?q=node\/23&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">opened sales offices<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Valmet has previously produced vehicles for Porsche and recently won a contract to produce the Fisker Karma hybrid vehicle.?? <a title=\"Valmet story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ad-hoc-news.de\/valmet-automotive-to-manufacture-garia-golf-car--\/de\/Sport\/Golf\/20006189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/28\/valmet-to-manufacture-luxury-golf-car-for-garia\/\">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":[5,8,9,13,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-globalization","category-golf-car","category-market-entrants","category-new-vehicle","category-sales-figures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}