I wonder if a lot of people will leave Motability when their lease expires and do as millions of others do and run a cheap second hand car? Even with zero AP, a Motability car costs £10k over 3 years or £16k over 5 years, which is a huge outlay for anyone, but especially if money is tight. I know plenty of people whose expenditure on private cars is way less than that and they don’t even contemplate buying or leasing brand new cars because they simply can’t afford them. I guess it will boil down to where having a brand new car ranks in peoples priority order of where they spend their money. For millions, especially in the current climate, it’s right at the bottom of the list, if at all.
Most of us couldn’t be without a car, but do we really need a brand new one, especially if we don’t need adaptations? I’ve run several quite old private cars over the years and by comparison to what we pay for our Motability car they were a fraction of the cost to run. It’s nice having brand new cars, but it comes at a big cost, even through Motability.