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Old 05-13-2021, 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
We have a 2 seater with a fold down rear facing seat for 2 additional passengers. We use this maybe 10 times a year. This works very well for us, the golf cart is only 2 inches longer than a standard golf cart. We can shop or golf with the seat up. The only word of caution, rear seat passengers MUST wear seat belts or no ride!
In my cart EVERYONE wears seatbelts unless playing golf. There were several serious cart accidents in the past month where the injuries would have been far less traumatic if the people in the cart had been wearing seatbelts. Same as in my car: Seatbelt or walk.

What would you say is the ratio of two seater carts (or two seater with folding rumble seats) to carts with four forward-facing seats? 100 to 1? Higher? I hardly ever see the four seaters, and when I do, most of them don’t have four people riding in them. When I moved here, I anticipated having lots of friends who would want to go riding with me, but things people wrote here on Talk of the Villages convinced me to go with two seats, and now I’m glad I did. Of course, my children rarely visit, and I have no grandchildren. That could make a difference. The friends from an hour away who said they were definitely coming to hang out or play golf only showed up a couple times, and no golf cart was needed.