although i have 18 months left on my lease like many i enjoy having a mooch now and then to see whats available and boy is it hard work. my starting position is wpms 1387 available as for anyone else, then auto is a must reduces to 713,then deselect diesel and plugin hybrid 557 available, then i need a high in/out etc and dont need 7,8,9 seats just cant get down into a saloon so select mpv,suv large and small 204 available. but wait going through the list i notice the bmw i3 isnt there one of the models i quite fancy, its under medium vehicles as is the vauxhall mokka, that gives me an extra 13 so a choice of 217. which probably equates to 20ish models assuming 10 varients per model not a great choice in the grand scheme of things. but far more work than it needs to be.
Mitch,
At least they now give we War Pensioners the same number of vehicles to search from – for many months, if you input WPMS as the first search criteria, we had 3 less vehicles than everyone else!
It took them quite a few months to fix that one issue (despite being repeatedly told about it) – perhaps now they may start on the points you raise.
However, I would not be holding my breath for a fix anytime soon.
I think it boils down to the old ‘Garbage in – Garbage Out’ scenario.
In saying that though, I wonder who actually classifies the ‘Car Types’ (such as Small SUV’s, Large SUV’s, small cars, medium cars, large cars etc)? Is it down to data supplied by manufacturers’ as to which ‘Car Types’ category a vehicle falls into – relative only to their own vehicles?
Or do Motability input the data, using staff members who have absolutely no idea that a Mini Cooper is somewhat more compact than VW Touran!