World's priciest and most luxurious golf cart features carbon-fiber roof, just like your BMW M3

Zach Bowman — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:41:00 EST

Filed under: Europe, Toys/Games, Humor, Specialty, Design/Style, Luxury

The Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit Golf Car - Click above for high-res image gallery

Meet the Lamborghini of the Links - the Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit. Aside from that exotic roof, this golf car (don't you dare call it a cart) boasts a serious pedigree bedecked with names like Porsche, Ducati and Aston Martin. Sort of. See, this little caddy-mobile gets glued together in the same factory that's responsible for the Cayman, and uses a frame from the same supplier as Aston Martin, Volvo and the like. The gearbox? It comes straight from a Ducati supplier.

Buyers can choose their own exterior color, and get treated to niceties like two-tone seats stitched by hand and a Alcantara headliner. Sadly, there are no power numbers on hand, but the company did supply us with one very important figure - $17,499. That's how much the base version will set you back. Start tacking on the optional built-in refrigerator or partake of the personalization program, and this little sucker will hit you up for closer to $52,000. Expect to see the Garia Editioin Soleil de Minuit unveiled at this year's Top Marques Monaco. Hit the jump for the press release.

Gallery: Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit

[Source: Garia]

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Man riding modified golf cart eludes police

Chris Shunk — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:33:00 EST

Filed under: Government/Legal

Police in Utah observed a 26-year-old man doing donuts and wheelies in a golf cart at the city park, so they closed in on the suspect to issue a ticket. The cart driver decided that he wanted to test law enforcement in his modified super cart, so a five-minute chase through neighborhood lawns led the police and the cart-driving perp into an alfalfa field. Once there, the golf cart and its driver channeled the General Lee by jumping an irrigation ditch, leaving the police in the dust.

Unbelievably, the driver got away, at least for a day. Then next morning police arrested the driver at his grandmother's home, and he admitted to his crimes. It seems he was drunk (we know, big shock) and he didn't want to get into trouble. Good move, chief. Instead of a class B misdemeanor, the cart driver was slapped with a class three felony for evading police.

[Source: Standard Examiner via MSNBC]

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