Well at least we have a bargaining point if the car is on the list, as in “apply the grant to the ap or I’m off elsewhere” and also hope that come October we see some blanket reductions.
I think you’d soon be shown the door! The grant is not within the dealerships control. It’s applied to the manufacturer who may, or may not, decide to lower the AP or provide an offer (although, as I keep saying, Motability will have already negotiated deals way in excess of the grant level, so the two aren’t directly related). Any additional deal negotiated with a dealer would come off their margin, so a dealer funded discount of the same magnitude as a grant just isn’t going to happen. It would have to be funded by the manufacturer or group.