What Textron Specialized Vehicles makes

Textron Specialized Vehicles designs and builds more than 90 consumer and commercial vehicle models, from golf cars and personal-transportation vehicles to industrial utility vehicles, side-by-side UTVs, professional turf-maintenance equipment, and aviation ground support equipment. Most of that production runs through its Augusta, Georgia plant. The company markets under the E-Z-GO, Cushman, Jacobsen, Ransomes, TUG, Douglas, Premier, and Safeaero brands, with E-Z-GO golf and personal vehicles and Cushman work vehicles as the best-known lines.

The product range spans four broad end markets. E-Z-GO covers golf cars and low-speed personal vehicles, increasingly on lithium-ion powertrains such as the ELiTE series. Cushman builds rugged hauler and utility vehicles for factories, campuses, resorts, and job sites. Jacobsen and Ransomes make mowers and turf-care machines for golf courses, sports venues, and municipalities. The Textron GSE family, under TUG, Douglas, Premier, and Safeaero, supplies pushbacks, baggage and tow tractors, belt loaders, ground power units, and de-icers to airlines and airport operators. A significant share of the fleet is now battery-electric, which places the company in the electric-vehicle manufacturing base as much as the traditional powersports one.

As a manufacturer, Textron Specialized Vehicles is closer to a vertically integrated OEM than to a components Tier 1 supplier. It designs finished vehicles, sources parts and sub-assemblies globally, and assembles them in the United States, then sells through dealer and distributor networks. That structure shows up clearly in its import record, which is dominated by parts and turf machinery flowing in, not finished goods.

Financial performance

Textron Inc. reports Textron Specialized Vehicles as a product line inside its Industrial segment, so the top-line figures are public. Textron Specialized Vehicles generated $1,624 million in revenue in FY2024, down 14 percent from $1,887 million in FY2023, a decline the company attributed to lower volume in powersports and personal transportation vehicles as demand in those end markets softened. For context, the full Industrial segment, which pairs Textron Specialized Vehicles with the Kautex plastics business, reported $3,515 million in FY2024.

The 2025 picture was reshaped by a portfolio move. Textron divested its Powersports business during the year, which removed the Arctic Cat and Bad Boy off-road lines from the revenue base. On the company's Q4 2025 reporting, Industrial revenue was about $3.21 billion for the full year, and Textron Specialized Vehicles was roughly flat on an organic basis once the divestiture is set aside. The headline decline is therefore part demand and part deliberate narrowing of the portfolio toward golf, turf, industrial utility, and aviation ground support.

Ownership and history

The business began in 1954 in a one-room machine shop in Augusta, Georgia, as E-Z-GO. It became part of Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) in 1960 and has operated as a Textron division ever since. Today it remains headquartered at 1451 Marvin Griffin Road in Augusta, where it employs roughly a thousand people and runs its primary assembly operations. A 2016 state expansion announcement added up to 400 jobs and consolidated Jacobsen turf operations into Augusta.

The parent matters here. Textron is an investment-grade Fortune 500 multi-industry company based in Providence, Rhode Island, with roughly 34,000 employees and operations in about 25 countries across aviation, defense, industrial, and finance businesses. Leadership of Textron Specialized Vehicles changed at the start of 2026: Jorg Rautenstrauch was named president and chief executive officer effective January 4, 2026, adding the role to his existing leadership of Textron's Industrial segment and its Kautex business. He succeeded Rob Scholl, who had led the unit since 2023 and moved to Bell as chief commercial officer.

Certifications and quality

Textron Specialized Vehicles maintains ISO 9001 quality standards at its manufacturing facilities, per the company's own materials. The Augusta operation has a documented operational-excellence record: it won the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence in 2009 and has been recognized among IndustryWeek's best manufacturing plants in North America. The company does not publish an IATF 16949 automotive certification, which is consistent with its position as a finished-vehicle OEM in the specialty and low-speed categories rather than a road-vehicle Tier 1.

Known customers

Textron Specialized Vehicles is a branded-vehicle manufacturer rather than a contract supplier, so it does not have named OEM customers in the way a parts maker does. It sells its own E-Z-GO, Cushman, Jacobsen, and Textron GSE products to end users and fleets.

Because the company sells finished vehicles under its own brands, its customer base is broad and dealer-mediated rather than concentrated in a few named accounts.

Sourcing evidence

Textron's Augusta import entity has 761 US sea shipments on record from March 2015 through September 2026, with the most recent landing September 24, 2026. The mix reads like a vehicle assembler's inbound flow: turf machinery, engines, transaxles, seat and frame kits, chargers, and precision-turned steel, not finished vehicles. Average container volume runs about 36 TEU per month, and the last month tracked was down roughly 10 percent year over year, an activity dip rather than a stop. The top named foreign suppliers on the public record:

Seven shown of the named suppliers on the public page. The largest single relationship, Ransomes Jacobsen, is itself a Textron turf brand, so much of that flow is intra-group turf equipment moving from the UK and Portugal into the US. Origin countries span the United Kingdom, Taiwan, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey, which is a diversified, nearshoring-and-offshoring blend rather than a single-country dependency.

Coverage caveats: these are US ocean-freight records only. Air, truck, and rail movements do not appear; some records name freight intermediaries rather than manufacturers; and product categories come from declared manifest codes, which are noisy. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence.

Frequently asked questions

What does Textron Specialized Vehicles make?

Textron Specialized Vehicles designs and manufactures more than 90 models of golf cars, personal-transportation vehicles, industrial and commercial utility vehicles, side-by-side UTVs, professional turf-maintenance equipment, and aviation ground support equipment. It sells under the E-Z-GO, Cushman, Jacobsen, Ransomes, TUG, and Douglas brands, with a growing share of battery-electric vehicles.

Who owns Textron Specialized Vehicles?

Textron Specialized Vehicles is a division of Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT), a Fortune 500 multi-industry company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. The business started as E-Z-GO in 1954 and has been part of Textron since 1960.

What is Textron Specialized Vehicles' revenue?

Textron reported Textron Specialized Vehicles revenue of $1,624 million in FY2024, down 14 percent from $1,887 million in FY2023. The figures are disclosed because Textron reports the unit as a product line within its Industrial segment.

Where is Textron Specialized Vehicles headquartered?

Textron Specialized Vehicles is headquartered at 1451 Marvin Griffin Road in Augusta, Georgia, where it has operated since 1954 and runs its primary assembly plant. It employs roughly a thousand people in Augusta.

Who are Textron Specialized Vehicles' customers?

Textron Specialized Vehicles sells finished, branded vehicles rather than parts, so its customers are end users and fleets: golf courses and resorts, airlines and airport operators, and industrial, campus, and municipal operations. Sales run through dealer and distributor networks under the E-Z-GO, Cushman, Jacobsen, and Textron GSE brands.

What certifications does Textron Specialized Vehicles hold?

Textron Specialized Vehicles maintains ISO 9001 quality standards at its facilities and won the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence in 2009. As a finished-vehicle OEM in the specialty and low-speed categories, it does not publish an IATF 16949 automotive certification.

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