Spoke to a dealer up north because I am thinking of buying one and tricking it out in my garage up there where I have lots of tools and room, then trailering it down to our Villages home. Fleet carts (the very basic ones they sell to golf courses) are readily available but they don’t come with the high speed gears needed for transportation in the Villages. The PTV (personal transportation vehicle) model, which comes with high speed gears and a very basic lighting package, are not currently available and are back ordered about 5 months out. A basic gas PTV is about $8,200 before taxes and Yamaha typically holds the price constant until the next years model comes out, when the price will almost certainly go up. I have done a lot of research and figure for about another 4 thousand I can trick out the cart as good or better than a new one from the Villages Golf Carts and for about 6 grand I could trick it out with everything I could possibly ever want. Of course, that would require a fair amount of labor on my part, but I enjoy a good project.
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