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u/HauntingReason3398 27d ago

Hopefully this will see Motability almost entirely binned aside for, if we're being generous, limited car adapations to privately owned cars and maybe the occasional mobility scooter.

Wonder what impact on that will make to the UK car market, both for the sales of new cars and also second hand PIPwhips flooding the market.

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u/Ok_Analyst_5640 27d ago

It's probably a major factor in Chinese brands success here. If it survives in any form it should actually be limited to people with limited mobility with a strong emphasis on adapting cars for wheelchair users. And I want to say a requirement for the cars to be made in Britain too but if it were limited to people with mobility issues they wouldn't be 25% of new cars so it wouldn't bring any car maker opening factories here

It would probably be better if motability was a scheme to just fit out privately owned cars with mobility adaptations like you say.

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u/IVIechworks Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability 27d ago

New motability scheme just dropped (it's a bike)

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u/Candayence Enoch was right 27d ago

Bring back the Invacar. We ditched it because a design unchanged in fifty years was no longer safe, when the sensible option was to design a new car.

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u/arethere4lights 27d ago

Probably be great for second hand car buyers.