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If you have 10 people will they not all want different makes and models of cars?
If they did all want the same car why do you think you could get a better deal on the car than Motability?
Plus imo it ain’t driving if it’s a fully autonomous vehicle.. So why would you then buy a car, but that’s what they want?
You would buy one so you can do the same travel as what you do now but without having to drive yourself.
Who wants that – who are they?
He tells people what they want to hear and they then vote for him – they don’t really see past what his public persona is – they seem him as someone different that will stick up for the working class American who feel the politicians have ignored.
. i think the tv licence is a rip off ,
It’s £13.12 a month…and for that you get all the BBC channels/Radio/Website and iPlayer – how is that a rip off?
You may not want it or think that it should not exist but can’t see how it’s a rip off…think you need a better definition of what a rip off is.
Those of you, who like me call motability from time to time to see which car they plan on adding in the future “soon” will know that the xc40 PHEV / Mercedes phevs have been on this “list” for over a year. Now can anyone seriously tell me why it took them a year to decide on a price and if it should be on the scheme, yes maybe they held out for the best deal but if they put it on a year ago they still would’ve sold loads / made probably more than what they’ll make now it’s on
Global pandemic holding up discussions? Lots of unknowns last years for the amount of cars makers could produce.
Why are they going to sell less now it is on??
I still feel in my bones that these badges are British even if they are’nt……Ford,Vauxhall,Mini.
Ford have never been a British company though
Ive never wanted a ford or vauxhall very hum drum cars imo
Ford don’t make cars here and Vauxhall only build the Astra here.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Joss great list of British cars most look like they are hand crafted and def not on the scheme.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”>I know there is a huge supply chain of small manufacturers around the UK also relying on supplying british built cars, which again is great for skilled jobs and decent pay.</p> The only mainstream cars I am aware of that are built in the uk, some Vauxhall’s, and Nissan’s including the electric leaf. I’m not really sure if there are any others??
Toytota build cars here as well.
Depends what you mean by mainstream as well – as BMW/Mini are made here as are Jaguar and Land Rover cars…and at least for now Honda do although they are leaving soon.
Just waiting on a Jaguar Alan.
Why are a lot of people that think we should be pushing for UK build cars never driving one themselves? Someone else on a car forum thinking there should be a push for people to buy British despite them driving a German car!
After a long period following the referendum we now have a wonderful opportunity to embrace the benefits which life outside the EU brings. Of course there will be some bumps in the road as was indeed indicated by Michael Gove during the campaign. Perhaps future trade deals may see the return of the much missed Ssanyong Rexton W to motability. If that happens then nobody could argue against Brexit if we derive such benefits.
Seeing as Ssanyong are currently in administration don’t hold you breath…and having a Ssangyong on Motability has nothing to do with Brexit.
“Brexit has NOT effected prices. This is a misnomer” I was thinking that as my car is built in the UK, Brexit shouldn’t make any difference to it.
That’s a common misunderstanding – Brexit had an affect on everything – cars are a particular one as a lot of parts are made in the EU and then need to be imported.
Hopefully now that a deal had been struck it should not have much affect as a no deal will have had.
Main issue with car prices is lack of people buying them due to the pandemic and manufactures not making as many due to closures.
We should be prioritising British made cars on the scheme IMHO.
What British built car do you have?
to my mind the old common market free movement of people and goods was the good deal the rest the euro and their attempt to get a federal europe only really benefitted france and germany.
Very much agree with that – started well and ended poorly and glad we are now out.
actually the uk used its veto 9 times when it was available, part of the issue was that it could only be used over certain matters and in particular not over the budget or the common agricultural policy which was a particular gripe of successive governments as the french effectively ran the cap as its own private bank for its farmers. also when the uk joined the eu it had to adopt eu rules regarding trade with the commenwealth and deals with carribean countries and new zealand in particular were badly affected as they had to fall in line with french interests in the carribean and european lamb producers. so where we had previously dealt with the commonwealth on very favourable terms they had to change.
9 times since 1974 – like I said it rarely used it – so that means generally the UK was happy with what was happing within the UK so now we are not in the EU why would you expect much to change when the government is happy with the way things are?
Is there much money to be made via trade between the Caribbean and New Zealand? Neither are huge markets compared to the EU?
I’ll fine too, because I’ll sleep at night knowing that despite whatever useless government we get, it’ll be ours to deal with democratically and not a technocratic monolith in Brussels which we are powerless to change.
The UK whilst a member of the EU had power of a veto which is rarely used…we had a lot of power to have made changes should the UK have wanted to but it chose not to.
no sense of humour these pc people. likewise the remainers, a large company wants to invest in the uk, particularly uk farmers and they deride it, because they lost the vote. i suppose they will trot out similar tropes if we negotiate deals with any of the commonwealth countries. which we should do asap seeing as we had to drop them when we joined the common market. one danger maybe that they wont want to sign a deal because of the harm us joining the eu did back then.
Which large Commonwealth countries did we stop trading with then?
I’ll have to look at the EVs available in China, you never know after leaving the Eu they could be heading this way.
They could have come even if we were in the EU.
Good idea in theory but it would mean all cars having the same batteries rather than all different types and sizes to make it economical and with the decrease in charging times I don’t think it is something that will be required.
As far as I’m concerned all of these types of chargers will have a limited shelf life, as battery tech progresses charging an EV will be similar to filling up a standard ICE car. Five minutes at the charger will supply 200-300 miles range, which IMO is enough for most journeys.
Agreed – speeds of charging batteries are increasing all the time – and generally you won’t flatten the battery and then have to do a full charge so that reduces time as well.
Thought we could put Brexit behind us
We can now – it is done and dusted.
As the amount of time it takes to charge the batteries and the range the batteries can give then I think there will be less need to have to be able to charge at home. If in the future you could to the Electric Station and charge up in 10 minutes that it will relieve a lot of the current issues.
Woo-Hoo! Super cheap GERMAN supermarket offers even more cheap food to newly impoverished Brits. No doubt Lidl (also GERMAN-owned – the same family, in fact) will soon be following suit.
It’s good to see a big business invest in more British produce
They may not have to have one – not everyone does, my wife put her application in and after a while it came back as being awarded.
Insurance is a funny one as there are a lot of variables but in most cases you will find a Porsche cheaper or similar to that of a Vauxhall corsa in some cases. Servicing is usually dependant in the manufacture, high end BMW excluding M are no more to service than say a 1 series
Is that because generally a Porsche won’t be used as the main car and not during work commutes etc so on the road less?
Part costs can be a lot more on higher end cars – even things like tyres.
