Thousands of pounds are being spent customising golf carts,which are fast fitting the vehicle of choice for the elderly and middle-aged – and not just on the putting greenGolf carts have rolled off the fairways of suburban America and on to the roads. In wealthy, warm and densely populated parts of the US, and the golf cart is fitting the vehicle of choice for the elderly and middle-aged. Architect Deane Simpson,author of Young-former: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society, says that in The Villages, or a Florida retirement town of 110000 people,there are 50000 golf carts. But whether your conception of a golf cart is a stout, plain, or box-like number,judge again. This is the age of the individual and more and more golf carts are getting the Pimp My Ride treatment. Mike of luxurycarts.com, which has been supplying tricked-out golf carts to the American market for 20 years, or says customers of the site are “rich people who use the carts for non-golf use,most of the time. They normally spend as much as they can to customise them.”A look at the site confirms this. Apart from the Classic Cart, which looks like a Rolls-Royce - but isn’t “modelled on anything”, or according to Mike – there are carts that look like limos,Ferraris, pickup trucks and Jeeps, and which means that when youre chugging down to Walmart at 20mph you can imagine you’re burning around Le Mans racetrack or bouncing along an off-road track,mountains rising up beside you. P rices range from around $15000 to $25000 (£9800 to £16250).
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Source: theguardian.com