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That’s a stunning looking update for the Juke. Looks beautiful in that colour too.
Now, if only Nissan decided to do a petrol hybrid version of it…
Hyundai have just today recalled 300,000 cars in the US due to dodgy seatbelts.
Now I realise it’s America… and they’re front seatbelts, not rear… and the Bayon isn’t mentioned as a model affected… but it just goes to show that these things happen. And who knows – maybe your Bayon ‘might’ be affected – it’s just that no one in the UK has reported a problem yet? For instance ; you would never have known if the MOT garage hadn’t pointed it out! And perhaps Hyundai’s seatbelts are sourced from the same manufacturer?
Just a thought. Here’s the article:
https://www.motor1.com/news/792825/hyundai-genesis-seatbelt-anchor-recall/
I wouldn’t be paying a penny if it was me – not a chance.
Either someone somewhere hasn’t done their job or it’s a parts failure.
I just changed mine in the scenic etech. Plenty of notice it needed changing as I took two weeks to do it. Very easy to do with just hands. Also has a key inside it, as have all fobs I’ve had. Does the enyaq not have one?
Same with my Clio. Dash
naggedalerted me for about 2 weeks that the key battery needed replacing. I finally got around to doing it without any problems.Incidentally, the car went in for its second service some weeks later and the nice lady at Renault reception told me to always use both keys with the car. I’ve never done that. I’ve only ever used one key (and replaced the battery if need be) and kept the spare key locked away safely at home. My cars always go back with one unused spare/second key… always. Hey, what do I know?!?! (and I’m still using just the one original key).
I am indeed I’ve even got a Toyota coat and polo shirt
I bet you’ve even got a Toyota logo tattoo somewhere on you Mike.
Own up – where is it? Arm? Chest? Todger? 😂
Now have a read of the comments on the right-hand side of the screen!
I saw an MG Cyberster GT on the road in Chichester this very morning. The roof was down – despite it being freezing cold, windy & drizzly here on the South Coast today – with a
real pair of posers‘glamorous’ couple in their mid-60’s driving it… real Barbie & Ken types with fake tans, fake teeth, fake hair (in his case) and a plastic surgeons’ dream patients. They were alongside me in the heavy traffic from roundabout to roundabout to roundabout (Chichester is worse than Milton Keynes I’ll have you know!).Fabulous looking car in this beautiful deep metallic red colour mind. I did chuckle to myself on a couple of occasions. I hope the Cyberster has bloody good heated seats & hot air blower. Poor sods are probably spending the rest of the Easter weekend in bed with Lem-sips, hot water bottles and a box of tissues.
Can not believe the price of the Honda from 499 last month to 1999 crazy no wonder they stopped orders
I don’t know who is the most deluded here – Honda or Motability – or both?
Prior to yesterday’s Q2 prices, you could have a mid-spec Civic Sport full hybrid for £1,399 AP.
Fast forward 24-hours and Honda/Motability have removed the ‘Sport’ version leaving just the base Elegance trim… with an obscene AP of £3,999 !!!
RIP Motability. Great while it lasted… but now sadly bending over and getting shafted by a mixture of the Daily Mail and its readers, the Labour government & Motability’s own boardroom hierarchy.
I fully agree with you @wmcforum.
2026 is my 30th consecutive year on the scheme and in all that time, I have never known such a mess. ‘Worry Free Motoring’? They’ve got to be kidding, right? I am able to order in March next year, so a whole year to see how the scheme pans out. I can only hope that all the current panic, butchery & cluelessness at Motability HQ somehow gets sorted out between now and then. VAT being added to advance payments ; 10k per annum mileage allowance ; an extortionate 25p per mile if you exceed that. And as if all that wasn’t bad enough, the choice of vehicles is plummeting while the advance payments are skyrocketing.
I hope that in 12-months time, the powers that be at HQ return to planet Earth in their heads & and sorts this complete sh*tfest out.
Having been on the scheme 30-years this year and 11 cars later, my No.1 rule on collection day is always always always walk around the car to check for dings, dents, scratches & that the vehicle is the exact same model & spec that you’ve ordered. Only then enter your PIN number when you’re happy.
Some dealers genuinely get it wrong occasionally. Others will try and pull a fast one. Most are honest & decent I’ve found. But remember ; the onus is always on you to do the above.
I would take an educated guess and say that due to the ‘Chinese invasion’ of well-specced & well-priced EV’s flooding the UK and Europe, South Korean brands like KIA will be keen to make sure their cars are very very competitive when it comes to pricing.
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.
My first ever car on the Motability scheme was a 1.4 Vauxhall Tigra way back in 1995. I loved that little machine – and never had a single thing go wrong in 3-years!
I also had a couple of Astra’s in the following years. They were good, reliable cars and again, never had a single issue with either of them. Like the Ford Focus Mk.I that I also had many years ago, the Astra & Focus were good ‘bread n butter’ everyday reliable & comfortable cars.
Haven’t had a Vauxhall for years now – but that’s only because I don’t like their design. The ‘new’ Astra (now under Stellantis of course) is good looking, but the AP is somewhat high when compared against better competition.
Never watched Quadrophenia being a rocker back in the day – watched it since matured though
Renault nailed it with the Perso button!Superb movie with a superb soundtrack… even for a greasy old rocker like you kezo 😉
Top 3 movies of all time:
1. Quadrophenia
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Blues BrothersI can’t think of anything worse than being stuck with a car for three years that I dread getting into each day or one that I’m so glad to get out of at the other end of my journey!
Car manufacturer’s – some of them at least – are finally listening to what buyers want & are changing back to things that worked well in the past and work equally as well nowadays. Take my Renault Clio for example. It’s got proper door handles. I get in – and I’m also glad to see it’s got large rotary dials for all the heating/aircon. Yippee! There is also a proper physical button (thank you so much Renault!) which you press just once… and it stops all of the annoying bings & bongs that would drive me CRAZY having driven just 200 metres down the road! It also has proper physical buttons, one each side of the console, for the heated front seats. I don’t have to press some stupid massive glass screen several times just to warm my butt cheeks!
I’ve been looking at the new Honda Civic hybrid Sport (on the scheme for around £1,400 AP). Read any review on the net and they love it – every reviewer. Fabulous hybrid system, very powerful car, fantastic to drive, very comfortable, all mod cons. Sounds great I thought – will consider it as my next car. And then you read something that every single reviewer writes ; “It’s a real shame then that the Civic is let down by constant annoying warning bongs which require several presses of the screen in order to mute and you have to do this EVERY time you want to drive the car”. Several reviewers said in the end, it was such a faff that they just left it on and tried to ignore the bongs going off constantly in the background as they drove 2 or 3 mph over the speed limit.
Nah, not for me thanks. I value my sanity for starters. Where’s the enjoyment in getting behind the wheel of a car and it nagging you constantly so much so that you’re tempted to drive it all the way to Beachy Head in Sussex & driving it over a cliff – ala Jimmy and his scooter in Quadrophenia!!!
Hopefully you will remain on DLA for another year and pass the age of 66, then you will remain on DLA and won’t have to navigate PIP.
Fingers crossed eh kezo.
My retirement date is August 2027 when I’ll be just short of my 67th birthday as the government have just put the age limit up again by one year. I’m determined to make it to my pension age just to see them off – even if it’s the last thing I do !!!
@Glos Guy ; thanks for the reply mate.
I caught polio when I was a very young kid which left me with one leg very thin and no muscle whatsoever hardly plus it was 3-inches shorter than the other leg. My hips are twisted badly too. Never bothered me in life and I lived a pretty ‘normal’ life to be honest, just like my friends. The only thing it ever stopped me doing was joining the Royal Navy (my dad was a submariner for 29-years and I always wanted to see the world) and driving a manual car with three pedals – so I’ve driven all these past 45-years or more automatic gearbox only and with my left leg, not my right. I joined NAAFI after the Navy said no and, ironically, I spent the next 12-years at sea on HM Ships running the tiny shop selling ciggies, beer, ‘nutty’ (chocolate bars), ‘goffas’ (soft drink cans) etc. Everywhere my ship went – I went, including the South Atlantic during the Falklands War for which I was awarded a medal. Best of all, I did get to see a whole lot of the world after all & that was my main aim in life when I was young and about to leave school.
Now that I’m 65 however, I find it difficult – a minefield – to navigate my way through government red tape. Time has caught up with me somewhat & my legs, hips etc cause me no end of pain and discomfort the older I get. I had big operations when I was 13 and again at 16 to try and rectify my legs. I have a mobility scooter on bad days & use a stick on better days but like many others on this fine, helpful website, I have no idea about assessments, rules, regulations, what to do & say because governments keep moving the goalposts! It’s a huge relief knowing that I will be able to keep my Motability car past retirement age, a real lifeline my car, so thanks for the heads’ up mate. Let’s hope ‘Dim Timm’ does the right & decent thing for us all.
I’m still on DLA and have been for almost 30-years now. I haven’t been reassessed for a good 10-years I would guess. I have recently turned 65 and I don’t even know what, if anything, changes once I reach retirement age next year?!?!
I’m assuming DWP will write to me nearer the time? I’m hoping that once I reach retirement, I am still entitled to PIP or its equivalent and allowed to keep my car?
Apologies for my ignorance.
True, but there are dozens of Mini’s that would satisfy the ‘Motability customers can’t have a fun car’ brigade. I hope that you are correct, but I can see the JCW version being axed the second that someone queries why the JCW version is more suitable for disabled people than lesser variants. Let’s face it, they removed very sensible family cars like the Enyaq Coupe, just because it is called a coupe. That’s the crazy world that we are now in
I love the new Honda Prelude full hybrid coupe – a car that would have been at the very top of my list a year from now when re-order time comes around. Alas, it’s a ‘coupe’ – a filthy, banned & triggering word in Motability HQ these days – so no chance of it now appearing on the scheme – alas.
I can’t see the Mini JCW being removed anytime soon. Motability want to promote British-built cars they said recently after all the media hysteria – and you can’t get anywhere more British than Oxford.
If you do end up using Dobbies Mitch, there’s a VAT cut on public chargers on the way which will save a few pence…
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/mooted-vat-cut-public-ev-charging-brilliant-news
@kezo, I have seen an article that Fiat announced immediate price reduction up to £4,000 for its 500e and 600e. I had a colleague, who bought himself a retirement present last year: Abarth 500e in acid green. I loved this car! Too small for me, but looks amazing and drives… Oh how it drives….
And not to mention…
Mitch ; have you looked at the Renault Captur Esprit Alpine? Great little SUV which now comes with the new 1.8 full hybrid self-charging system? It’s got all the bells & whistles and is £623 on WPMS.
Now imagine if the Daily Mail got their way and we are only allowed a 3-wheeler Invacar to get about in during heavy snow…
That would make sense (the EV4 being European built) as opposed to a Korean built & shipped K4. I say that because the petrol versions of the K4 (of which I would be interested in) are quite pricey as regards AP.
I’m not due to change for a while yet though (14-months) so not concerned about AP’s just yet and anyway, new cars are coming in 2026 like the all-new Peugeot 208 and the beautiful new Renault Clio 1.8 full hybrid which will both be on my shortlist come early next year. The biggest downer of all though is the fact that the stunning new Honda Prelude hybrid won’t be coming to the scheme because it’s classed as a coupe. A real shame that – because it is stunning… and a hybrid… but the ‘free cars for the disabled’ brigade have won out on that one – sadly.
Renault nailed it with the Perso button!
