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-   -   Golf Cart UTV Hybrid 150cc...ok to use in The Villages? (https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/all-about-golf-carts-things-156/golf-cart-utv-hybrid-150cc-ok-use-villages-315430/)

Redwood8300 01-23-2021 08:08 AM

So where will you take it for maintenance?

Rich42 01-23-2021 08:12 AM

With a gas tank size of 1.75 gal, suggest you buy a house next to a gas station and buy towing insurance.

Marathon Man 01-23-2021 08:34 AM

Asking a qquestion like that on here will result in opinions. If that is all you want, that is OK. If you are looking for more, I suggest that you attend your district meeting.

DAVES 01-23-2021 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by boxcarwilly (Post 1891384)
Why..dual purpose for other chores and faster speeds for out of The Villages trails.

The law is 20 mph or you need plates and insurance. That is not it can do 35 but I do not exceed 20. I truly wonder why you would ask here. Should you be stopped, a defense that a Villager told me it was ok will be worth nothing.

DAVES 01-23-2021 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Redwood8300 (Post 1891491)
So where will you take it for maintenance?

I don't think there is any expectation of logic. Perhaps, another symptom of covid or lock
down.

mrf6969 01-23-2021 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by boxcarwilly (Post 1891375)
Set up with proper max speed restriction and tires i would think these would qualify.

Only appropriate if you live in the woods/on a ranch or tow to a camp site.
We drive these when we go back to Colorado on daughters ranch. A hell of a lot of fun on a cattle drive.
Be smart and just get you a Yamaha gas Quiet Tech and be happy too.

John_W 01-23-2021 09:19 AM

Seems like every six months, someone will ask about using an UTV in TV. Just last November another poster asked the same question and it also got to 3 pages.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ght=cart+paths

He wanted to use this, maybe the OP can send a private message to this poster and find out what happened.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...t-img_0043-jpg

daveac83 01-23-2021 09:54 AM

Golf Cart?
 
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Originally Posted by boxcarwilly (Post 1891375)
Set up with proper max speed restriction and tires i would think these would qualify.

Don't think I would want to play out of that. Speed must be limited to 20 mph (or so). Tires don't look like golf course tires. Small gas tank. My Yamaha holds six gallons. How noisy is it???

dhdallas 01-23-2021 10:10 AM

Dare to be Different!
 
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Originally Posted by Fredman (Post 1891381)
Why

Why not? I want to get one of those amphibious 6-wheelers or a Taylor-Dunn electric flatbed they use in warehouses. I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those stupid and ridiculous golf cart conversions made to look like a Roll Royce, Humvee, etc.

"It takes a STRONG fish to swim against the current. Only the dead ones go with the flow." - John Crowe

http://www.mxiatv.com/mxi/wp-content...ax2_b_out2.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c5/19/12/c...fc83a1aa77.jpg

DeeCee Dubya 01-23-2021 10:19 AM

Who cares if it’s legal? You can out run the cops by cutting across the golf course. They’ll never follow you.
Resist the Man

DeeCee Dubya 01-23-2021 10:21 AM

Do they make amphibious with electric power?

boxcarwilly 01-23-2021 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by dhdallas (Post 1891599)
Why not? I want to get one of those amphibious 6-wheelers or a Taylor-Dunn electric flatbed they use in warehouses. I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those stupid and ridiculous golf cart conversions made to look like a Roll Royce, Humvee, etc.

"It takes a STRONG fish to swim against the current. Only the dead ones go with the flow." - John Crowe

http://www.mxiatv.com/mxi/wp-content...ax2_b_out2.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c5/19/12/c...fc83a1aa77.jpg

I had a 6 wheel max in new england...turn 360 on its own length..plowed snow...drive it into the lake...sad day to let it go.:)

stephen.q.pankow 01-23-2021 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1891560)
Seems like every six months, someone will ask about using an UTV in TV. Just last November another poster asked the same question and it also got to 3 pages.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ght=cart+paths

He wanted to use this, maybe the OP can send a private message to this poster and find out what happened.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...t-img_0043-jpg

Hey, hey, no need! I am the original poster. I got a lot of flack about even asking the question (I mean, the nerve, right?), and for writing "accessible" rather than "acceptable". The most useful answer that I got was someone who went to the trouble of looking up the appropriate statute (imagine! Factual information which is responsive to the question at hand! Here on TOTV!), which states that if the manufacturer doesn't explicitly sell it as a golf cart, then it's not a golf cart.

This seems ambiguous to me. Could the manufacturer of either of these fine vehicles just limit the speed, replace the tires (which, as one previous poster helpfully said, the manufacturer must designate as golf cart tires), and remarket it as a golf cart, because then would be a golf cart. But then, I've long since given up on applying logic to legal matters as a fruitless battle.

stebooo 01-23-2021 11:25 AM

For sure because we don't have enough options now

jimjamuser 01-23-2021 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by banjobob (Post 1891418)
A good question is why , just the need to be different, when golf carts are designed for golf if you need it for other reasons I can’t think of one.

A golf car would be useful in TV land to pull or push an attachment to allow for grass cutting. Thus eliminating most of the unnecessary commercial grass cutting services that park their vehicles in the middle of the road and speed through the Village roads. It could promote a good feeling to Villagers who have lost their own self-respect for their youthful "do-it-yourself" attitudes that have helped the US succeed. I am not sure if such a grass cutting attachment EVEN exists. But, if it does not exist, then, too bad, it should! And some Village entrepreneur SHOULD make it happen. Real men (and women) cut their own grass!


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