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In order for Motability to bring down the AP of all automatic cars is it time to take away manuals as an option?
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Rob this makes no sense at all, why would removing manual cars from the scheme reduce the cost of automatics? Most people still want a manual car so motability would be left trying to sell tens of thousands of automatics no one wants.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.
No cause the vast majority of cars on the scheme are manuals but I’ve long argued that the auto should be the same price as a manual.
Motability know how many manual and autos are sold so the should add…. £10 to every manual Toyota or £50 to every manual BMW for example to allow them to reduce the price of the automatic Toyotas & BMW’s to the same as a manual…. hope that makes sense?
I’ve always felt double punished for being disabled and only being able to drive an automatic which I then have to pay more for
its not just a disabled problem rhodgie, automatics are more expensive anyway its always been an optional extra.until autos are sold in similar numbers to manuals like in the usa then the price wont come down.
making it auto only on motability wont change that.
I wouldn’t take manuals off the scheme even though I’m no longer allowed to drive them because of my disability but what would be nice is a discount off the automatic AP for we disabled driving folk who have to drive automatic by law simply because of our disability.
It’s something I find strange to have to say with a company that deals with disabled people.
If some sort of discount is to be applied it should come from the profits motability make. There are many people struggling to afford the AP on manual cars so punishing them to make automatics more affordable seems wrong.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.I am incline to agree Motability should be putting some of their massive reserves into subsidising EV and automatic. As regards manual vehicles the disabled person is not always the driver, why should they be penalised.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally say the wrong thing.
They don’t even have to put any of their reserves into it… I was once told that automatics made up only a tiny percentage of the total number of motability cars (think it was about 1% but not sure?) so even it was as much as 10% then the other 90% pay an extra £10 or whatever figure required to balance the deposits… I’m not expecting zero deposits but of all the options available, model, trim, engines etc there should be no price difference for us between manual and autos
If people are struggling to afford a deposit for a manual then what about those that require an auto… kind of proves my point?
From Cars sold, not Motability, it used to be only 20% were automatic but over the last few years this has increased to 40%.
As for Motability the last figures we had were over 45% were Automatics, this will be over 50% by now. Ill try and dig out the latest figures.
Seems for a full hybrid car it needs an auto gearbox for it to work…so we may see every car is an auto by 2030.
right now though it is how it is certain cars ppl just don’t want to buy auto’s on the used car market. More can go wrong and deffo cost more to fix as well.. Thats the great thing about the scheme after 3 years it’s not my problem..
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