With respect, that would be daft – for several reasons.
Firstly, keep in mind that only 1 in every 3 people entitled to join Motability actually do so. The others fund their own cars privately or use the money for other reasons. Also, there are over 2.5 million blue badge holders in the U.K. versus 660,000 Motability users. So, less than 25% of cars using blue badge spaces at any time would be Motability drivers. There is nothing on our cars to designate them as Motability cars, so how does anyone know that your car is a Motability car compared to the other cars?
Secondly, whilst the i4 is a nice car, it’s not a high end luxury car. I have parked next to countless top end cars in blue badge bays (top end Range Rovers etc) that are clearly not Motability cars, but are legitimately displaying a blue badge. The sort of brain dead people who think that every car in a disabled space is a Motability car are more likely to frown at the £100k+ Range Rover than your mid range BMW. I had a private BMW 750i M-Sport for a while and used to get some absolutely filthy looks from some people as I pulled into a blue badge bay. You could just tell they were thinking “this arrogant b*stard in his flash BMW thinks he can park here”. I used to enjoy seeing them looking down shame faced when I got my wife’s wheelchair out of the boot 😂
Finally, the uneducated Neanderthal types who slate Motability on social media sites are completely ignorant as to how the scheme works and how much we actually pay to have our “free” cars, but are thankfully a tiny minority of the population. These people wouldn’t be quite so jealous of Motability cars if they had to suffer the disabilities that go with having them.
My advice is don’t read all the tripe on Social Media and carry on enjoying your i4.