Good points @BigDave The conundrum that the government will have is that the “high end luxury cars” that the media are fixated on are EVs. As Motability is the biggest buyer of EVs in the country at present, probably by some margin, any curbing of choice will have an adverse impact on the government’s ability to achieve the ZEV targets which, whilst unachievable, they still seem fixated on!
Indeed GG.
However, in reality how may top end EV’s do Motability actually lease out? Either as a percentage of their total fleet or actual number, it can’t be that high vs more ‘run of the mill’ vehicles, including EV’s.
Motability could jettison top end EV’s (a la 2011) without too much damage to themselves. Infact they might even get a smidgen of positive acknowledgement for doing so.
Customers who want a high end EV would probably either lease a slightly lesser EV on the scheme (which helps with the PR narrative) or even privately lease/buy one – either way, it’s roughly neutral overall.
Yes, I totally agree about choice, but knowing how Motability capitulated in 2011, nothing would surprise me.