Those of us who have been on the scheme for decades will remember how small and basic the cars used to be. Compared to the Invacar, the choice was amazing and welcome.
If the choice on the scheme had grown progressively upwards from the Invacar to what we have today then I’d agree but, as you’ve been on the scheme for decades you will know that’s not the case. Choice grew to (from memory) something like 5,500 cars, including cars that we could only dream of today (Range Rover Sport etc) and were far from small and basic. Over the last 10 or so years that choice has fallen and fallen to now less than 900 cars. If you consider the fact that EVs (and all their new manufacturers) didn’t exist back then, plus there were far fewer model variants of even ICE cars than we have today, the choice, as a percentage of models available to the open market, is a tiny percentage now of what it was in Motability’s heyday. For those who want (and can accommodate) an EV, I’d agree that the choice is pretty good (Tesla aside), but for the majority who want an ICE car and whose needs require something of a decent size and specification, it’s getting a bit desperate.