Personal Golf Cart
Yamaha Personal Transportation Vehicles make the perfect addition to your family. The Fuel Injected gas model provides choke-less starts, reduced emissions and exceptional gas mileage while the electric version gives you an 19 mph performance (with optional speed kit) thus making them the ideal vehicle for transporting guests, hauling the family or running the occasional errand.
Add a radio and speakers, floor mats, a rear facing seat or any other number of Genuine Yamaha Accessories and equip your Personal Transportation Vehicle for just the way you use it.
In the game of golf, the champions are the ones who sweat the small stuff. Nothing is unimportant; everything is worthy of painstaking work. This is Yamaha’s approach to designing the finest fleet golf car.
Deep in the DNA of The DRIVE® is everything we’ve learned from our motorcycles, ATV’s and watercraft, including the ability to build with fewer parts, which leads to lighter weight, which leads to superior hill-climbing ability, a virtually greaseless chassis and the lowest maintenance costs in the industry.
We designed The DRIVE to bring a smile to the fleet owner. Yamaha has the lowest maintenance costs of any fleet in the industry. We guarantee it. (Smiling yet?) How do we do it? The only golf car bumpers rated for 5 mph impacts. And they’re the same height front and rear, to minimize damage in the barn. An automotive style dash that provides your golfers with all the creature comforts and puts everything within easy reach. Thermoplastic olefin body panels that are puncture resistant, cold-weather resistant, and closely color matched to the extra-durable automotive-grade polyurethane paint that goes on them. And on the electric, a motor control unit that moderates speed on downhill stretches and simultaneously recharges the batteries.
If your thinking The DRIVE will revolutionize the industry, your’e right. And we’re thinking your course would be a great place to start.
Yamaha Built 357F Gasoline Engine
We’re the only golf car manufacturer that builds its own engines. At 357cc’s, producing 11.4 horsepower, it’s the industry’s most fuel efficient, with gas mileage that’s up to 30% better than our competition. It’s quiet, virtually vibration free, and has low emissions. If we’re going to build our own, it’s a good thing we’re Yamaha.
Electronic Fuel Injection
An industry first, Electronic Fuel Injection provides chokeless starts, smoother acceleration, improved gas mileage and reduced emissions.
Headlights & Tail Lights
Stylish, halogen headlights and tail lights are standard equipment.
Floor Mounted Horn
The conveniently located horn is close to the accelerator and brake pedals. A quick turn of the ankle lets them know you’re coming.
Filterless Oil System
Our Yamaha gasoline engines use a splash-style positive oil lubrication system that eliminates the need for an oil pump. And with no oil pump to protect, there’s no need for an oil filter. You save on maintenance, you don’t have to buy new filters, and you don’t have to figure out how to dispose of the old ones.
HybriCore™ Chassis
How do you make a chassis nearly 20% lighter and 2.5 times stronger? We mated an automotive, ladder-style, 100% robotically welded steel frame, protected by an 18-step paint process, to a polypropylene structural floor. It’s unique design provides added strength and protects the battery.
Automotive-Style Dash
The auto industry spent a hundred years getting this right, so why not use it? We gave it four cup holders to hold different-size cups; a center storage area for wallets, cell phones, and personal items; six ball holders; six tee holders; and a big, easy-to-clean storage compartment on each side.
EnduraDrive™ Transaxle with Internal Disc Brake Technology
An industry first, inspired by the Yamaha ATV. A completely enclosed disc brake system that eliminates brake drums and shoes, needs only one brake cable, and is projected, based on extensive testing, to have an incredibly long life with essentially no maintenance.
Largest Most Comfortable Seat in the Industry
Deep, supportive contours are intended to help hold occupants in place while the car is moving. Designed to accommodate occupants of all different heights and sizes, it’s made of pure, supple foam bonded to a seamless, fabric-backed vinyl cover, and the polypropylene seat base is strengthened with plated steel inserts. Won’t sag or warp, stands up to repeated pressure washings, and remains the most comfortable seat in the business despite daily abuse.
Rear Seat Grab Handle
Constructed of durable, powder coated steel, the rear seat grab handle provides added security and comfort for rear seat passengers.
Mid-Body Seat Storage
Conveniently located under the front seat, this storage compartment gives you plenty of extra storage space.
Low Oil Warning Light
Not that you’ll ever need it, but in the event your vehicle runs low on oil, the dash-mounted warning light will let you know in plenty of time.
Low Cost of Ownership
Low cost of ownership is a priority at Yamaha. So our vehicles boasts the lowest cost of ownership in the industry. The lowest. Period.
Tru-Trak II™ Fully Independent Front Suspension
Notice how one tire stays firmly planted, even though the other adjusts to the terrain? That’s the fully independent suspension at work. We designed a maintenance-free suspension using automotive-style, coil-over-shock struts to minimize roll and deliver a smooth, comfortable ride. Sooner or later, some golfer will offer to trade his car for it.
Best Front & Rear Bumpers in the Industry
You know and we know: things happen out there. So we made our bumpers with thicker walls and textured surfaces to withstand mishaps. They’re the same height front and rear to minimize damage. They release air on impact; in fact, they’re 5 mph rated. And if worse comes to worst, you can replace them by removing only two bolts.
Maintenance-Free Rack-and-Pinion Steering
Steering this nimble and responsive was once found only on high-performance sports cars. Our version is permanently greased with sealed bearings and is virtually maintenance free.
One-Piece Fender Well with Integrated Splash Guards
Inner fenders and splash guards are made of one-piece seamless plastic and are designed to keep mechanical and electrical components from getting wet. The rear wells include integrated mud flaps to keep occupants and golf bags from being splashed on.
Removable Floorboard Access Panel
Forget the floor jack for inspecting the brake and accelerator pedals. This access panel makes it easy. Integrated brushes prevent debris and foreign objects from entering.
Virtually Greaseless Chassis
Sealed bearings, automotive grade tie-rods and permanently lubricated steering components that never need greasing save you time and money. That’s smart design.
Flexible, Durable Body Panels
Our body panels are made of custom-formulated thermoplastic olefin providing superior flexibility, durability, and cold weather resistance. Panels lock together and mount with fewer hardware to make removal easy. They are robotically painted with a two-part topcoat of high-luster, automotive-grade polyurethane paint that is closely matched to the body panel.
Easy-To-Clean Cup Holders
You know that really gross stuff that collects in the bottom of cup holders? We don’t have that. Our cup holders are built with drain holes that keep liquids and debris from accumulating. And they’re removable, so cleaning them is a snap.
Largest Rear Access Panel
If you need to access the starter generator, governor and transaxle on the gas car, or the motor control unit and vital electrical components on the electric car, you have the advantage of the largest access panel in the business. Open it up and make it happen.
Easy-Grip Steering Wheel
It’s not just that it’s thick, contoured and textured for easy gripping. It’s not even that we integrated a scorecard holder and a pencil holder into the design. It’s the way we carefully positioned the pencil holder to avoid scratched wrists and torn golf gloves. That’s what we mean by attention to detail.
Wheel Covers
Standard 8″ wheel covers in a silver metallic finish add the perfect finishing touch to the Fairway Lounge.
| Overall length | 2,922 mm |
| Overall width | 1,243 mm |
| Overall height (sun top) | |
| Overall height (no sun top) | 1,200 mm |
| Wheel base | 1,917 mm |
| Front wheel tread | 990 mm |
| Rear wheel tread | 980 mm |
| Minimum ground clearance | 115 mm |
| Power supply/Drive train | |
| Engine type | Yamaha built, low emission single cylinder 60° incline OHV |
| Displacement | 357cc |
| Bore x stroke | 85 mm x 63 mm |
| Horsepower | 8.5 kW @ 3,500 rpm |
| Compression ratio | 8.1 : 1 |
| Lubrication system | Splash-style positive oil lubrication |
| Oil tank capacity | 1 litres |
| Air cleaner | Two-stage, urethane-foam pre-cleaner and high-capacity pleated paper cartridge |
| Cooling system | Forced air |
| Carburetor | Mikuni BV26-18 |
| Ignition system | Transistor magneto ignition |
| Motor | Hitachi 48-volt high-efficiency, shunt wound motor with internal solid state tachometer |
| Transaxle | EnduraDrive V-belt automatic forward/reverse transaxle equipped with high-precision helical gears, 13.65 : 1 drive axle ratio |
| Chassis | |
| Frame | HybriCore™ Chassis features a robotically welded automotive ladder-style frame mated to a polypropylene structural floor. Frame components are protected with a multi-step full-immersion phosphate treatment, electro-deposition epoxy-base coating, and an electrostatically applied polyester/urethane powder topcoat |
| Body | Custom-formulated thermoplastic olefin, and the front painted with a two-part top coat of high-luster automotive-grade polyurethane |
| Steering | Self-compensating double reduction helical rack-and-pinion, permanently lubricated with sealed, greaseless tie-rod ends |
| Front suspension | Tru-Trak II™ fully independent automotive-style strut suspension |
| Rear suspension | Unit swing arm with coil springs over hydraulic shock absorbers |
| Brakes | Self-adjusting, mechanical drum brakes on all 4 wheels |
| Seatingure | Seamless, fabric-backed vinyl bonded to pure, virgin foam contoured seat cushions and mated to a warp- and moisture-resistant polypropylene bottom, strengthened with plated steel inserts |
| Bumpers | Front 8 km/h energy-absorbing bumper |
| Performance | |
| Maximum forward speed | 24 km/h |
| Maximum reverse speed | 18.4 km/h |
| Turning radius | 3.3 metre |
| General | |
| Dry weight | 384 kg |
| Cargo box material | Roto-molded linear Polyethylene |
| Cargo bed capacity | 363 kg |
| Cargo bed size (LxWxH) | 1,209 mm x 1,243 mm x 356 mm |
| Cargo bed load height | 609 mm |
| Fuel tank capacity | 22.0 litres |
| Tyre size | Front: 18.00 x 8.50-8.00 (4-ply rating), Rear: 18.00 x 8.50-8.00 (6-ply rating) |
| Seating capacity | 2 persons |
