Motability agree a price with the manufacturer, not the dealer and the dealer can buy cars direct from the manufacturer, as well as placing factory orders for customers cars with the manufacturer. At whatever price they sell cars, they order themselves, is up to them, often under the mrp. Clearly right now they won’t sell as low as mb paying for them. So that’s the real issue.
It’s not them being discriminatory, it them saying to you not at the price mb are offering or have agreed with the manufacturer, on cars they have ordered for themselves to sell..
To get one at that price you need to place a factory order with the manufacturer and they will act as the broker between the 3 parties, The manufacturer, mb and us the leasee, for that they get a small fee..
Them refusing to do that would be discrimination. That’s one reason i believe some car manufacturers have removed themselves from the scheme altogether and i don’t see them rushing to rejoin anytime soon..
I just left the scheme and bought a car that a dealer had on order, got a great deal and 0% apr.
Not from my local dealer, they had no cars on order and said sept/oct at earliest. so got one from a dealer 70 miles away in Dudley, which from paying the deposit arrived in 4 weeks.
I do get your frustration but i only see it getting worse for the scheme, unless mb offer more £££ for cars which will mean us paying higher ap’s. Which is one of the main reasons i left the scheme now and had been looking to maybe do so for quite a while.
In the last few years some car prices have risen 26% and how much has the allowance we get risen, a few pounds evey year. it just ain’t kept up. Now energy prices have risen also, so the costs of making cars will increase even more. Where this leaves the scheme is for me not viable or justifiable anymore to lease a car.. with such high ap’s.
se you starteted a thread on vauxhall’s q3 ap’s and they have risen so maybe an idea to place an order now.
I feel sorry for those who want to join the scheme and have no car or those who extended for 5 years and have been told they must order something asap or leave the scheme. MBO don’t really care, actual cars on the scheme have drop by 75% but they made bumper profits and Mb the charity are giving away 50m to other disabled causes from the profits from us and not directly back into the scheme.