Spot on Glos Guy and I’m sure you’ve seen my comments on this many times in this forum.
I sent a message to Motability a few months ago about disabled drivers being penalised for their disability because like myself my “any car” license was revoked and its now “automatics only” one now because I became disabled though of course being disabled or becoming so its the same problem.
I can take on board a higher AP if you want a bit more equipment in your car but what I asked was for is the automatic version of any given model to be the same as the manual version of any given trim, at the least for disabled drivers. I can’t imagine the cost being that great as I’ve read n the past that Motability numbers themselves says that only a third of there cars are driven by disabled drivers with the mass majority being driven by carers of disabled persons although some of those carers may have auto only licenses too but not that many I would imagine.
What’s more worrying in the latest trends with everything going electric is not the fact that most, if not all EV’s are automatic any ways but those EV’s capable of carrying large mobility equipment in the back with the likes of 7 seat SUV’s is the cost of such vehicles at the moment are coming in at prices around and over £50,000 so lets hope that changes by the time we get to 2030.
BTW, Motability answer to my question about auto / manual AP prices was to applying for a grant.?