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impossible to predict mate. A couple of days before the end of the quarter – some manufacturers price lists get released then and you can see which way the prices are going.
we will have a “Q2 Pricing and information – New Motability prices 1st April 2021” Sticky Thread closer to the time, with 7 weeks yesterday still to go we are still closer to Q1 and Motability wouldn’t of finalised negotiations yet. Normally they are finished around 2 weeks before. BigDave will be all over it dont worry. Thanks Dave.
I agree with the above replies. Far too early to tell, although Brexit won’t be a factor as a trade deal was secured. As a rule, Q2 brings no more changes than any other quarter. The only ‘trends’ appear to be less choice and increasing AP’s and I don’t see that ending any time soon. The only hope would be if the new CEO reviews how the scheme has changed over the past 10 years (when there were over 4,000 cars to chose from, compared to under 1,700 now) and decides to reverse some of the adverse changes in order to target the potential qualifying customers who choose not to join the scheme. There are two of those for every existing Motability customer, so a big prize to go after. Not holding my breath though!
I agree with the above replies. Far too early to tell, although Brexit won’t be a factor as a trade deal was secured. As a rule, Q2 brings no more changes than any other quarter. The only ‘trends’ appear to be less choice and increasing AP’s and I don’t see that ending any time soon. The only hope would be if the new CEO reviews how the scheme has changed over the past 10 years (when there were over 4,000 cars to chose from, compared to under 1,700 now) and decides to reverse some of the adverse changes in order to target the potential qualifying customers who choose not to join the scheme. There are two of those for every existing Motability customer, so a big prize to go after. Not holding my breath though!
I don’t see the former number of cars available as a very useful benchmark, the car industry has dropped quiet a few models, and the DM crusade lost us several manufacturers, but the biggest loss in vehicles on the scheme is in the diesel fleet, it used to be a almost 50% of the vehicles available were diesel, now it’s less that a quarter.
The new emission rules, average fleet has to be below 95gm of CO2 has further reduced the numbers, and will continue to reduce the number of cars available.
the future is EV and small petrol engines, brexit and COVID especially will reduce numbers for I fear the next 12 months, hopefully by then, we will have some really good EVs on the scheme, the VW ID3 and 4, the Skoda Enyaq, Kia e-Niro etc.
sadly the days of high BHP ICE is over, as is diesel, even Hybrids are a temporary stopgap, the up coming quarters will have more than their fair share of shocks, and number of vehicles will almost certainly reduce IMHO
Previous Motability Cars
2006 - 2009 Skoda Superb VR6 2.0tdi
2009 - 2012 Citroen C5 2.0tdi VTR Nav
2012 - 2015 Nissan Qashqai 1.5dci tekna
2015 - 2018 Ford Kuga 2.0tdi Titanium X
2018 - 2021 BMW 220d X drive 2 Series Active Luxury
2021 - 2023 Hyundai Kona Electric Premium SE
2023 - Hyundai Kona Electric Ultimate
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