@Mike 700 Agree with you 100%. Apart from the best Company car schemes Motability is second to none. APs could be lower and we could do with more large, quality ICE cars. But I still say we get a lot for our money. Someone showed prices from the NHS Scheme but to get those prices you have to be earning £50,000pa and thus pay higher rate tax. Even then Motability is very competitive. As you say Mike, Motability is indeed a godsend to disabled people and their carers.
Thank you Daf,
I realise that this Forum, just like Motability, caters for all – rich & poor, large & small, young & old etc.
However, having spent many years in banking, as a lending mandate holder, i do know that Lenders providing loans , leases etc would not , even could not , look favourably at some applications necessary to buy/ lease/ contract hire some of the vehicles offered by Motability .
Motability, however, can allow people with lower incomes to undertake substantial contracts, for vehicles necessary to accommodate their disability, or indeed, because they just fancy a particular car because they ( Motability) have certainty of payment via the Government , ie no risk lending , and long may this live!
I do not blame anyone for wishing better cars were available, we all would like to get the best for our buck, it’s the nature of the beast ,but I believe that we would leave ourselves wide open to attack , and indeed jealousy, by scurrilous journalists and politicians ,& who knows where that would lead, if we widen the choice too much?