Firstly I drive an EV so they’re all auto anyway so this no longer affects me but it is still an injustice, plus it wasn’t me who started this post but the higher costs of an auto over a manual comes up often (when folk aren’t bickering about EV v ICE ???) so obviously other people aren’t happy either.
Motability is a charity founded to help disabled people get back on the road so they should be doing all they can to achieve that and I don’t think they are.
I was beginning to think you were a manual car driver and that’s why so reticent to agree you should be paying more but as an auto driver I’m amazed you don’t see the injustice in being financially worse off just because of your disability… different it you just couldn’t be bothered changing gear.
Anybody who needs an automatic due to their disability is out of pocket… see my previous post about the Ford Focus, and it’ll be the same story with just about every vehicle on the scheme.
It should be a level playing field, we all get the same level of DLA/PIP so should be paying the same deposit for the same basic means of transport, luxury extras like heated seats, electric tailgate etc are down to personal choice… it’s not that long ago we also had to pay for our own hand controls so thankfully that has changed, maybe the deposits will change soon too ?