I'm ever so thankful for my power chair!!

PROS:
It gives me mobility in and out of the house. Although it's big, where I live, there's a law for wheelchair accessability. All curbs have a small ramp at every corner.

Mobility, again, gets a thumbs up because I can take my dog for a walk and get out and meet my neighbors.

When Jerry had a small trailer, he'd put it behind his RV, load up my powerchair and I could cruise a whole mall and never get tired.

My powerchair will go 4Xing, almost. I can drive it over grass, some rocks, and some dirt. No sand, though. Too heavy although it has wide tires; non-inflatable. They never go flat. As a matter of fact, there's a chunck missing from one of the back tires. LOL Very little stops me. hehe

Now for the manual wheelchair, it does fold in two, you might say, and Jerry can put it in the trunk of his Miata. It doesn't allow the trunk to close but he uses a tie down.

At this point, I can still use the manual wheelchair as a support for walking and it allows me to sit when I get tired.

CONS:
The powerchair is very heavy and bulky. Like Canders mentioned, it doesn't fold down or come apart. As of yet, I don't have a vehicle that I can carry it in. So... that leads me to the manual...

I don't like to have anyone else but Jerry push me. Familiarity, I supposed. I haven't built up enough strength in my arms to push myself, so I have to help my arms with my feet. LOL I've seen people do that and I think it looks stupid. My bad, I suppose.

For both the manual and the powerchair, I've found that I need to talk to managers of stores, especially craft and fabric stores so that they space their tables, displays, etc. farther apart. If I get no complaince, there's a woman that I met, in a powerchair, that is advocating for us chair users and gets the powers that be on the cases of these people that don't care to comply with the laws for the disabled.

IMO, both manual and powerchairs are OUTRAGEOUSLY PRICED!!! The insurance paid for my powerchair, the same price I paid for a 1991 Pontiac!! $7,000!! But... it's build out of the same metal that cars are. I've "crashed and burned" and no scars or dents to my powerchair!

In short... I LOVE MY POWERCHAIR! It goes a whole 7 mph!! WooooooooHooooooooooooooooooooo!!