Motability Scheme Now Kaput?

It's not rich people complaining about premium cars on Motability. It's working class people who see others on benefits getting things for free that they could never afford while working multiple jobs and missing out on life with their families…

People who are actually rich can afford cars that have never been on the scheme…Bentley, Rolls, Maybach… They really aren't interested in someone with a blue badge driving a BMW.

I don't think those cars are particularly premium in all honesty. Nowadays the quality of all cars has declined. The ones on MB were generally smaller models and low spec as well. If people can afford the AP for a car, it doesn't make any difference to the price Motability pay, so why does it matter to anyone else if it's just about money?

I've even noticed they've removed the Audi A1…those are no different to a VW Polo. I find it weird that people obsess over a badge and assume any car with that badge must be 'premium'. Even BMW's aren't that premium nowadays, horrible cloth seats and ugly solid paintwork on the lower end models.

Partly correct. Where there are equivalent cars, it's no consequence to the people on MB. For example, the equivalent Skoda is better specced than an Audi nowadays.

But in some cases there aren't equivalent cars from other brands. Or the equivalent model is only EV for example, which doesn't work for people without access to charge at home. The idea of removing cars just based on badge doesn't make sense.

The consequence is actually to the brand - who loses out on a lot of new car sales, and therefore pays the UK government less tax. And the working class people who would have bought those cars second hand. Motability buys a huge number of new cars every year, they make a considerable contribution to the economy and the car market every year.

I disagree about the AP as well. Some people need larger cars, which inevitably cost more. For example, a parent with disabilities themself, and two kids with different disabilities. They need a car with a high seating position, large boot, automatic gearbox, space in the rear. That type of car costs more than a regular hatchback, and therefore has a higher AP. The highest AP's tend to be on WAVs, where even the cheapest one requires a £5k AP.

Personally, I've had a large number of different used cars over the years, because I struggled to find anything that met my medical needs and a quick test drive was never enough to know how it would be over a longer time. I didn't rule out any model just because of the badge on the front or the price when it was new. That seems like a bizarre way to decide which cars disabled people should be 'allowed' to me.

As for working class people not being able to afford the car they would like, they are right to be angry about that. Working doesn't pay nowadays. Everything costs too much and wages are too low in comparison. But that anger should be directed towards the government, not disabled people.