[Michael G.]

So many questions posted here about golfcarts, I thought I would ask one.

Who, out there, DOESN'T have a golfcart or the need for one, besides me?

I drive a 3 yr. old Toyota Highlander, low mileage, and I can't come up with a good reason to own a golfcart.

My wife doesn't drive, and we don't need the additional expense in maintenance in my senior years.
Our Toyota is paid for, not noisy, it's safer on the streets then a golfcart, and I'm using it for one reason, transportation long or short distance.

Why would I need another mechanical headache to maintain in my garage?

Opinions Please

[JSR22]

If you don't play golf no reason to have a cart. My husband uses the cart exclusively for golf. Not used for anything else.

[photo1902]

It’s a fun way to get around, whether it’s to golf, shop, explore, etc.

No different than people who have motorcycles, boats, bikes, etc.

[JohnN]

I don't golf and don't own one. I rent one for a few days once a year when the family visits and that's plenty for a joyride.

[Papa_lecki]

None of this is my original content, I had a conversation with a doctor about this topic, he pointed to the Harvard study.

It isn’t crazy in the slightest. In 2015, researchers at Harvard Business School investigated whether Tesla, the poster child of automotive innovation, offered a truly disruptive model for transportation. Their conclusion: A “souped-up golf cart”—not a Tesla—offered the most transformative potential. Indeed, these puttering vehicles, most often associated with leisure and affluence, just might provide a pathway toward safe, affordable, and entertaining rides for the masses.

AND

The elderly also face disproportionate risk of injury or death in a car crash, and golf carts are less likely than cars to harm them.
Elderly, who may loss some reaction time, can better react in a golf cart doing 20 MPH vs a car doing 35 to 40 MPH.

[retiredguy123]

I don't have one because I think it is unsafe to share the road with cars and trucks. Also, they are too slow and no air conditioning.

[kkingston57]

[QUOTE=Michael G.;2186309]So many questions posted here about golfcarts, I thought I would ask one.

Who, out there, DOESN'T have a golfcart or the need for one, besides me?

I drive a 3 yr. old Toyota Highlander, low mileage, and I can't come up with a good reason to own a golfcart.

My wife doesn't drive, and we don't need the additional expense in maintenance in my senior years.
Our Toyota is paid for, not noisy, it's safer on the streets then a golfcart, and I'm using it for one reason, transportation long or short distance.

Why would I need another mechanical headache to maintain in my garage?

Do have a cart, but would rather take the car 99% of the time. Best thing about a cart is there are more parking spots. Downsides, Noisy windy, no AC, slow, round a bouts are longer, extra insurance, etc. Cart is used 99% of the time for golf.

[New Englander]

I don't golf and I don't own or want a golf cart.

[Papa_lecki]

More research….If you’re aging (we all are), the golf cart allows a longer period of independence than a car. It’s all relative, at a certain age, you’re not driving a golf cart from Brownwood to LSL, but you might be able to drive to your neighbors 2 streets over to play bridge on a Tuesday afternoon.

In the sunny world of active retirement, the darkness on the horizon is the knowledge that for many, activities will dwindle as disability takes away their independence. So some people, who know they can no longer qualify for a driver’s license or whose grown children are saying it’s time put away the car keys, continue to rely on their golf cart for getting around. Sun City’s Paul Herrmann recalls that one resident on supplemental oxygen was told by her doctor she could no longer use a car. “But he did allow her to drive a golf cart.” It was supposedly safer not only because it’s slower but because when a driver’s foot comes off the accelerator, the motor of a golf cart stops.

[chrissy2231]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

So many questions posted here about golfcarts, I thought I would ask one.

Who, out there, DOESN'T have a golfcart or the need for one, besides me?

I drive a 3 yr. old Toyota Highlander, low mileage, and I can't come up with a good reason to own a golfcart.

My wife doesn't drive, and we don't need the additional expense in maintenance in my senior years.
Our Toyota is paid for, not noisy, it's safer on the streets then a golfcart, and I'm using it for one reason, transportation long or short distance.

Why would I need another mechanical headache to maintain in my garage?

Opinions Please

I hate them, their awful ride & driving w/them!

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

So many questions posted here about golfcarts, I thought I would ask one.

Who, out there, DOESN'T have a golfcart or the need for one, besides me?

I drive a 3 yr. old Toyota Highlander, low mileage, and I can't come up with a good reason to own a golfcart.

My wife doesn't drive, and we don't need the additional expense in maintenance in my senior years.
Our Toyota is paid for, not noisy, it's safer on the streets then a golfcart, and I'm using it for one reason, transportation long or short distance.

Why would I need another mechanical headache to maintain in my garage?

Opinions Please

I'd say you probably don't ! If you don't need a boat, why buy one ? If you don't need a jet ski, why buy one. I can give you one view from a different perspective: We bought one to save TIME and GASOLINE, it's proved a very economic measure to NOT drive a car to the Publix, or to the neighborhood pool, to the postal boxes, to the drug store. It takes forever in a car (and even worse in "winter") to get to a Publix that is maybe 8-10 blocks away, or to a WM. We would sit at lights, sit at the "gates" with traffic backed up for literally blocks, to get OUT and then to get back INTO our village. So for us, a used cart, needing little maintenance (we have a gas cart) so a quart of clean oil every now and then, a filter, keep the battery connections clean, change out the gas line filter (very visible and accessible !) every couple years..not really much "maintenance" required for gas. Now we once had an electric cart, that was VERY expensive, and, unless you are good at that kind of thing, it is NOT like a gas cart (which is pretty much like maintaining your lawn mover !). So for us it saves a TON of money we'd be burning up just sitting in traffic, and at traffic lights and "gates", etc. However, sounds like you would not save much, so a wise decision for you to not have a cart also. WHO was trying to talk you into it ? A neighbor ? Each person has their own set of circumstances, and to some, price of gas, that kind of thing, is of no concern at all. Don't listen to OTHERS, YOU know what you need and want ! Some buy a cart like they would a bike, just a toy for fun, saving money and time is not a concern !

[photo1902]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

So many questions posted here about golfcarts, I thought I would ask one.

Who, out there, DOESN'T have a golfcart or the need for one, besides me?

I drive a 3 yr. old Toyota Highlander, low mileage, and I can't come up with a good reason to own a golfcart.

My wife doesn't drive, and we don't need the additional expense in maintenance in my senior years.
Our Toyota is paid for, not noisy, it's safer on the streets then a golfcart, and I'm using it for one reason, transportation long or short distance.

Why would I need another mechanical headache to maintain in my garage?

Opinions Please

There you go, there's one other person besides me in The Villages who drive golf carts! haaaaaaaa

[JSR22]

Originally Posted by photo1902

There you go, there's one other person besides me in The Villages who drive golf carts! haaaaaaaa

I agree with you!

[VApeople]

We have been here for 7 years and do not own a golf cart. We play golf on the free exec courses and most of them are easy to walk.

We just love driving around in our cars. That's about it.

[npwalters]

I live on a cul de sac and 5 of the ten residents do not have a golf cart. I do and I put more miles on it than I do my car -excluding road trips.

I live about mid way between Spanish Springs and Sumter Landing. The ability to go out to eat and other activities by golf cart is one of the things I enjoy about TV.

Some people like vanilla and some like chocolate.