I got to test drive one of these yesterday, and frankly I was a bit disappointed. The people that design these must not use them. It does have some nice points about it; the ride was comfortable, the seat elevation was 16" biggest I've found, it didn't get stuck in my yard, and it performed good indoors.
Of course you can't really rate it in the way it handles because it was programmed with so many delays. I was not impressed with its speed or torque. I got the rep to race me down my drive way, me in the Ibot and him in his. He almost kept up with me going down hill but when we came back the gap between us widened a pretty good bit. Again this might be programming.
One killer for me was the stupid arm rests. I use a Braun entervan and back up the ramp and slide into the drivers seat that swivels. The arm rest would not flip up, you have to take it off completely. That in itself wouldn't be too bad but they have the lights mounted on them and an additional control panel as well so you wound have to contend with all the wires too.
This chair doesn't do obstacles worth a damn. I need a chair to do at least a 3" obstacle. I screwed together 3" of boards for a simple test. I got the feeling it would break the castors before going over it. The one I tested did not have the springer forks on front, that might of helped but I doubt it. It needs bigger tires in front and wider ones in back.
It had swing away foot rests that use a lot of space out front and stuck up at the knee to preclude transfering from the side. The rep did tell me that they had a center mount one.
The other thing that struck me was that I didn't get the feeling that I could pull up to a hose and clean the tires that way. The electronics seemed pretty opened. The exposed screw heads looked to be galvanized not stainless steel.
Over all I did like the chair, it seemed to be fairly well made and would work well for someone like my mother, but I don't think it will handle what I dish out.
Next up I am trying to get a test on the bounder plus and the frontier v6. Anyone have any other ideas I should try?