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By jove, tosh.
I would say Vauxhall have only lost the plot recently since Stellantis took over. I had a 200bhp 2 litre GTC on the scheme a number of years ago and it was an excellent car.
Doesn’t change the fact that we’re starting to get some right rubbish added to the scheme these days.
So true @Glos Guy. The scheme is rapidly becoming a dumping ground for Far East rubbish.
That’s totally unjustified. You’re forgetting about the utter tosh that Vauxhall has been churning out for the past 20 or so years.
When you look at the likes of the new Vauxhalls, Jeeps and the issues mentioned about Peugeot EVs and their app, talking about untested Chinese cars and Motability being a dumping ground for tosh is a little rich.
Some Chinese cars are better than some of the cars with a much longer history on the Scheme, some are yet to prove their reliability, which could be why they’re not on the scheme.
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By jove, tosh. I would say Vauxhall have only lost the plot recently since Stellantis took over. I had a 200bhp 2 litre GTC on the scheme a number of years ago and it was an excellent car. Doesn’t change the fact that we’re starting to get some right rubbish added to the scheme these days.
I agree! Its only since PSA and later Stellantis ownership, Vauxhall gone downhill fast with pesky 3cyl engines.
I think we often overlook, China is a number of years ahead when it comes to BEV’s and without them europe would not battery cells for EV’s. The other thing to point out is, european auto manufacturers have been in bed with China with patnerships and joint adventure’s, not forgetting a number of european manufacturers build several of their cars, partnership plants in China and ship back to europe to be sold – Examples include BMW ix3, Cupra Taviscan, Citreon C5x, DS9 and Dacia Sping, not forgetting Stellantis brought Leap Motor to europe under their joint adventure, to avoid tariffs.
Unfortunately Motability only seem to be interest in the bottom range of what Chinese manufacturers build!
Tesla suffered manufacturing issues until they changed production from the USA to China, the majority of vehicle component are manufactured in China.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Dude (WMc),
I thought you said you were gonna delete all the ‘noise’ from this thread.
When I read it I cannot differentiate the general crap from the Chinese crap 🙁
Please follow through with your promises.
Thanks
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I agree that china do have the technology but they’re good at putting stuff into things like apple, or tvs or certain cars but when they make there own stuff it doesn’t seem original and you are right Motability are adding rubbish the scheme has literally hit the end of time, but as much E-mails as people can do to motabilty operations they do listen
Around 400 – I was looking for a car at the time.
Current: MY24 Renault Austral Iconic FHD.
Ordered 5/2/26: Chery Tiggo 8 'Summit' ICE
Previous Motability cars:
2013 Ford Focus estate auto.
2016 Vauxhal Zafira 1.4T SE Auto.
2019 Ford Kuga Vignale 1.5 auto AWD. (Ext lease)Around 400 – I was looking for a car at the time.
We ordered December 2020, they had a load of businesses cancel cars so we picked up a Skoda Octavia estate that was in stock at a very good price, £750 AP for DSG mild hybrid. A year later it was in the region of £2k.
Friday 13th February 2026 – Vehicles on the Scheme – 804 Change +7
Volkswagen +7 (2 petrol, 2 Diesel, 3 plugin hybrid)
Tayron +4
Match trim added, petrol, diesel and plugin, £3899 – £5199 AP, Style trim added in plugin at £5499 AP
Tiguan +3 Match (area view added)
Tuesday 17th February 2026 – Vehicles on the Scheme – 792 Change -12
Hyundai -12 (9 petrol, 2 hybrid, 1 plugin hybrid)
i20 -6
Kona -2
Tucson -4
Just a general tidy up, still plenty of choice.
I’d imagine the Tucson will be coming off for it’s upcoming facelift
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Bipolar, OCD and a multitude of other MH issues and physical disabilitiesAnd possibly also see a return of the improved MG4
And I imagine later we may see the arrival of the EV2
I’d imagine the Tucson will be coming off for it’s upcoming facelift
The Tucson NX5 isn’t expected till the 3rd quarter, so its probably a bit early for that?
Thursday 19th February 2026 – Vehicles on the Scheme – 794 Change +2
Hyundai +2 (plugin hybrid)
Tucson +2 front wheel drive version now in all trims, £2099 – £4099 Advance Payment.
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