We have never seen the cash from PIP (ex DLA) because as soon as my wife got the award we rushed out and got a new car (a green 1.6 Escort Estate) back in 1997.
Up to then we had always run around in bangers, and now we can get a brand new car with zero worries every three years and happily take it anywhere in the country and abroad.
Mota is not without its problems, and some AP’s are ludicrous, but for the vast amount of disabled people on the scheme, this is probably the only way of getting a new car.
We’ve even tried to come off the scheme before, and bought a car to see if it would be cheaper, but it didn’t take long at all for the costs to soon mount up, so we will stay on the scheme for now, especially as my wifes hospital is a 200 mile round trip in to central London, and reliability trumps everything else.
I’ve never really understood the amount of complaining, being on the scheme is not compulsory, and I don’t think there is anything similar in any other country.