Today I spoke with a different sales person, and was told depending on the colour I wanted I could have the car by February as the group had “some stock’ in different area’s and they even showed me a car that had just arrived for sale that I could have on 0% finance. ( way out of my budget). Once I mentioned I was a motability customer he changed his tune and told me the car maybe sold!. It turns out talking to other staff and dealers that they don’t want or need motability customers at the moment as they have more than enough retail sales and reading between the lines they are getting better commission not supplying to motability.
I know there is a shortage of vehicles especially to us but motability are one of the biggest fleet buyer in Europe. Its becoming clear they are quite happy just to extend leases charge us the same amount and rake in the profit and not fight for disabled people who use their service. If our only option is to extend leases shouldn’t we be paying less as we are now leasing 3 or 4 year old cars?