Are there a lot of members with Japanese Yamaha?

sformal

All is in the title...

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Spicyunicorn

Truuummmppp...... So no

sformal

If you just have anything only made in US, you are not out of the wood!!!

Spicyunicorn

Some days I think it would be easier to just go out and live in the woods

sho305

Sometimes I do, its fun. But yamaha makes IMO the best cart. Yamaha has over 1,000 people at its plant in Georgia, USA making many of the atv/carts/pwc/etc products it sells here. I'm not sure what the question is really. Carts here get sold no matter what they are, if you find a ezgo or club car used people buy them for much the same price used. I don't think anyone has a corner on the market new or used. I just prefer the yamaha if I were to pick what I wanted, but I'd take an ezgo too however likely not a club car. CC have some issues for offroad gas use I do not want to deal with, for how I would modify the cart. These issues may not bother other people but I don't want one. All three work fine for stock golf carts.

sformal

SHO305:

Yamaha has also another factory in Japan, even now they start to build units in their Thailand facility... The thing is that the Golf carts made in Japan are totally different than the ones made in USA.

The main market in USA is for 2 seaters while in Japan, they are 4/5 seaters. They share some parts, of course, but not all and have their owns which are very difficult to find.

Some of them are so strange also, full of electronic ("airbus as I name them") for the following features:

• Automatic parking: when the golf cart is stopped, brakes are automatically applied (this is not too complicated);
• Electromagnetic induction, self propelled: the cart is moving by itself (that's more a nightmare, out of golf use)

You can have a look at video where you will see these carts in "action". If they have GPS, the system is not driven by it (as the guy is saying), not only, but by electromagnetic induction. In a word, there is so much technology with so many sensors (proximity, speed, etc...) that they are full nightmares for us using them out of golf courses! Having a look at the part catalog and you change color (motorization of a second steering system, etc... imagine!)...

For information, mine do not have all this stuff (ouf), but they are rare now!!! It a sort of mix of G11/G14/G16 to stay simple, but I love too much it's a 4 seater (all looking forward).

Anyway, my thread was to see how many of us can be having Japanese GC, some were imported in the USA but again, USA is not the all world *smile

I know members in Thailand, Philippines, Australia even USA...

sho305

We just do not have a big market for that here, not yet. Most people got carts for use at home or campgrounds or light trail rides, because they were cheap. But now they are not so cheap and we have a huge population of retirees that want them to get around on. Still usually 1-2 people ride, some have back seats for temp riders usually or kids. Very few 4 seaters, even few 4 seat utvs do I see. Lot of people use them out in the sticks or rural areas not in town or busy areas you can't do that usually even if you wanted to.

cgtech

It's funny, it's a little different here. The lifted/offroad golf cart market for us is pretty much in the toilet. But we see 2 & 4 seat UTV all over the place (probably an even mix of 2 seat vs 4 seat). We don't build lifted golf carts to put out front anymore, only build them as requested. So Stampede is now in the lineup out front.

sho305

I still see places selling lifted carts here, new places even, and for more than used utv if they are new-ish. Don't know who buys them, some secret part of the population has 6K to blow on a used golf cart with a lift and wrap I guess. Some day it will die back but taking forever here. You can get a good deal on a newer cart actually, it is older carts that are priced only slightly less. It is funny to see a 20yr old cart for 25% less than a 10yr old cart.

Cruise Master

I don't know if I can add much, but I find all of this pretty interesting.

It makes no sense to spend a lot of money on lifted carts when you can get a side by side that has all the bells and whistles. If you need to be silent for hunting then that's a different thing once again.

It also makes no sense to spend a large portion of money to gain speed when ATV's can kick them without even trying hard. Heck a bike racer will win in a 10 mile race against 99% of those costly modified golf carts.

Retiree communities are being setup up more and more to be car independent. That makes golf carts the preferred transportation. Much easier wheeling a small cart around then big old American iron. A 4 seater facing forward that is well made and gives value would be a good business model for the future.

I'm kinda appalled at the golf cart industry. Old technology, low quality, and high prices. Must be a very lucrative business to be in as long as there isn't too much competition.

I see this forum is used to drum up business by some of the posters. Thinking that must be a large portion of their sales volume.