We’ve come a long way since the days of the ice blue invacar, single occupancy, motorised tricycles!
Indeed, but we’ve also come a long way from when there were well over 5,000 cars available through the scheme!
We all know why those numbers were culled. Could you imagine the effects of the post Covid market on those numbers?
For the benefit of those who don’t know, Covid wasn’t the cause. It all started when the Daily Mail ran a front page article written by Richard Littlejohn, along the lines of disabled drivers getting ‘free luxury cars at the taxpayers expense’. Rather than defend the scheme and explain that high end cars carried very high APs, plus the sacrificed benefits (you could even get a Range Rover Sport, albeit at around £15k AP), Motability rolled over and started to cull the choice – drastically. From memory, the choice was reduced by around 3,500 even before anybody knew what on earth Covid was!