I have no idea why three of the four 'reviews' here are from people who have never owned or even tried one of these, but who thought it looked cool in the picture. I have owned one, and it's a piece of junk. I had previously used a Pride Victory 9 on a 17-day cruise, and it was a dream. But the salesman talked me into the Gusto because he said it was a lot better. Maybe he was judging it based on the picture, too.
When it arrived, I learned the chassis is made of plastic, it's shaky when you sit on it, and that from the moment I first got on it, it pulled so strongly to the right that I had to use all my strength to have it ride in a straight line. (The manual says this is a tire pressure problem, but why was it delivered without having the tire pressure checked?)
I took the unit on its maiden voyage today and with great difficulty we got across the parking lot and into the store. I went up and down one short aisle and took my hand off the accelerator and the unit didn't stop rolling. Faced with hitting either a person or a china display, I turned the unit off. Then it wouldn't start again. I waited for more than five minutes, thinking it would reset itself, but nothing happened. Finally my husband disassembled the unit and put it in the car. Because I couldn't get around the store without the scooter, we turned around and went home.
If I'm going to use a scooter, reliability is everything. The Pride Mobility scooter I used on previously was made of metal, not plastic. It was a real workhorse that started and stopped flawlessly. It turned on whenever I turned it on, and stopped whenever I wanted it to stop. It turned on a dime. On the contrary, this Gusto scooter (which is no longer made by evRider, by the way) did absolutely nothing right. My Gusto is going back to The Scooter Store in exchange for a Pride Mobility the moment the store opens on Monday morning.