PURSUITS
Cart Blanche Take the wheel of the high-tech, eco-friendly Garia SuperSport golf vehicle, and everyone on the green will be green with envy. By Gianna Barone
| JOHN CRAIG
The car runs in three liquid metal finishes—Diamond White, Selenite Why do we love sports cars? Speed and style no doubt have much to Gray and Black Carbon—each an elusive, extravagant choice for your ride do with it, but it’s that visceral urge to command a beautiful piece that’s anything but par for the course when you’re riding alongside those of machinery that really drives us to seek out the hottest wheels in typical club models. The grill’s golf ball-esque dimples may be the only which to hit the roads. Now, what if there were a way to achieve that feature that will remind you that you are, in fact, driving a golf cart. same level of luxurious locomotion on the golf course? The SuperSport model was created, Garia says, with the style of a Introducing the Garia SuperSport, just one of the Danish brand’s Mercedes-Benz in mind. The luxury automaker’s influence is easy to family of golf cars. (Yes, cars, never carts.) This stylish vehicle, made recognize, as the SuperSport’s driving finesse and sleek concept are primarily of carbon fiber, has everything any gear enthusiast could unmistakably Mercedes-like. It doesn’t zoom up and down a sprawling ask for in a souped-up, luxury automobile: a waterproof, chocolategreen as fast as a Benz-y would on an open highway (it tops out at 25 brown leather interior, hand-stitched lounge seats, a top-of-the-line mph in the U.S.—it is a golf cart), but it’s street legal in the U.S. and infotainment system and a Wi-Fi connection. Of course, there are Europe and can be driven wherever the avid golfer behind some additional bells and whistles the wheel dares take it. specific to So, how much for your personal Benz-buggy your golfing hybrid to zip around on the golf green? The experience SuperSport starts at a cool $77,999 without too: a touchLuxury doesn’t end after you leave your vehicle, not shipping or labor fees. It’s a top-of-theenabled digital if you’re riding in the Garia SuperSport golf car. Zip line automobile in its most practical scoreboard, ball and tee around the greens in this machine, which sports hand-stitched lounge seats, a top-flight infotainment form for any serious sportsman, and a trays and even a builtsystem and a Wi-Fi connection, among other amenities you didn’t realize you needed on the golf course. guaranteed hole-in-one. in mini-fridge.
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