@wmcforum I think you need to be more granular than that. Those numbers hide the fact that now manufacturers have even more trim levels esp in EVs where you can have trim and battery variants so what may look like loads of choice could be one actual car.
Also were now in the position where essentially the same car is produced multiple times like the Vauxhall Combo life, Citroën Berlingo and Peugeot Rifter all on the scheme all basically the same car with different styling and trim sure and there’s multiple trim levels and sizes of each.
Add on the likes of Stellantis that have the same or similar cars across lots of Marques
Try finding a decent MP now, unless you go WAV or for Berlingo type there’s nothing in any fuel.
Like the retail car market it’s not entirely motabilities fault of course.
Try a search for EV and under 25 there’s ONE at an affordable AP. There are numerous EVs aimed at young people excluded by motability as they are ONE insurance group too high inc the Dacia Spring with a 0-60 measured in hours lol
Motabilities biggest problem is they have failed to move with the times, insurance groups are going up, bhp is an irrelevant metric on EVs yet still used. They moved to DLM who are now massively putting excesses up including doubling glass.
Motability still refused to look at complaints related to their partners despite the fact we are not the customer of the RAC, DLM etc and any good organisation would want complaints thru them so they can measure them and ensure SLAs are met.
The biggest issue with Motability is like other businesses behaving in a similar way they’re owned by banks and sitting on a mountain of hold which MPs have already told them off about.
Any other industry their contract would be put out to tender, refuse collection, road maintenance, building schemes etc they’re all tendered. Motability has been allowed to operate without competition for decades this is what has made Motability fat, lazy, inflexible, greedy and taking customers for granted, well if you leave there’s plenty more will come along…..
It’s not just Motability tho, the car industry is a mess too. Stupid lead times unfinished models being launched, not being able to supply parts even Hyundai is caught up on that with the Ioniq 5 issues.
TLDR Motability needs to modernise properly and car manufacturers need to sort their crap out too