Mobilty cars .....Joke

Mercdriver

If those that are Daily Wail uppity about this want to get their nose out of joint, they should be doing it against people like Richard Branson who has taken hundreds of millions of pounds from our tax coffers and put his profits into a tax haven. Now that's extracting the urine.

Cornucopia

Nilrem wrote: »

If you want anything other than a basic car (think base level Astra or Corsa spec) you tend to have to find the money for the upfront payment.

This is not quite the case. The search engine on the Motability site allows you to collate your requirements to find all of the cars that fit "car" requirements, financial requirements and disability requirements. If you just look at nil advance cars, these cover a huge range, though once you introduce things like high sill height, it gets smaller quite quickly.

My friend's car is the top spec in a particular model, with nil advance. His previous Motability car was a mid-spec model. The manufacturers (I assume) bid in with different levels of discount, and there is no obvious pattern to the spec levels.

Tothepoint.

Cornucopia wrote: »

You are still confusing long-term unemployed with long-term disabled. They are not the same thing.

No but you are as you still refuse to accept the fact some are one and the same. One member here is a classic example of that.

Mercdriver

Tothepoint. wrote: »

9-25 am itv, 2 pm itv and 9 pm channel 4 or 5.

Choose any one you wish and see for yourself.

What a condescending ignorant piece of earth you are. It's you that is buying The Star. Try to get some empathy to counter your ignorance and intolerance.

Motability is about enablement. It is about enabling disabled people to have the freedom to move, the freedom to have a choice, and to go where they want to go and need to go without having to physically rely on other people as much.

I'll give in to your point of view if you will do a week with your legs tied together so that you can't move them independently. It's views like yours that deprive disabled people of their dignity.

Get a life and learn how to live it.

Tothepoint.

Mercdriver wrote: »

If those that are Daily Wail uppity about this want to get their nose out of joint, they should be doing it against people like Richard Branson who has taken hundreds of millions of pounds from our tax coffers and put his profits into a tax haven. Now that's extracting the urine.

I don't think he's taken anything out, you've got him confused with Gordon Brown.

Tothepoint.

Mercdriver wrote: »

What a condescending ignorant piece of earth you are. It's you that is buying The Star. Try to get some empathy to counter your ignorance and intolerance.

Motability is about enablement. It is about enabling disabled people to have the freedom to move, the freedom to have a choice, and to go where they want to go and need to go without having to physically rely on other people as much.

I'll give in to your point of view if you will do a week with your legs tied together so that you can't move them independently. It's views like yours that deprive disabled people of their dignity.

Get a life and learn how to live it.

Never read it what's it like?

Tothepoint.

Mercdriver wrote: »

Well actually I was out of pocket. Was forced to take a lower compensation payment because my work took me abroad for months and the other side put an amount into court, and so my solicitors told me to take a payment that was 50% of what they told me to refuse 6 months earlier. The joys of no win no fee meant that if I continued to fight it, it would have been at my risk. Liability wasn't an issue the amount was.

No win no fee is your problem. If you had a case should have got better representation. I went with a decent company at your expense.

Tothepoint.

Nilrem wrote: »

Yup

If you want anything other than a basic car (think base level Astra or Corsa spec) you tend to have to find the money for the upfront payment.

The thing that the likes of the Daily Mail and Express never bothered to tell their readers (and their readers don't think enough to check it themselves) is that the more expensive cars with the big upfront payments that used to be on Motorbility tended to actually make the scheme some money above the running costs at the end of the lease, and thus subsidise other vehicles (especially the ones that need big adaptations).

I know a few people who get mobility allowance/PIP and they'd much rather pay the money than receive it if it meant they didn't have the disability.
They'd be overjoyed to lose the money/car in exchange for not being disabled.

One of the things about people like the op is that they can't even be bothered to do any background reading on what qualifies people for motorbility despite the fact the information takes about 15 seconds to find on google.

15 seconds on google will find a football referee and several able to play a round of golf.

Gravedigger

Just as an aside you too can "Lease" a car. That's what the Mobility scheme is, a leasing system. So for the £230 a month you should get a decent motor, but if you want top of the range you'll have to pay a premium. And at the end of the three year contract you can opt to buy the motor or hand it back and get a new one. If it helps disabled people get around then where's the problem? Methinks the OP has a green glint in his eye.

Tothepoint.

Gravedigger wrote: »

Just as an aside you too can "Lease" a car. That's what the Mobility scheme is, a leasing system. So for the £230 a month you should get a decent motor, but if you want top of the range you'll have to pay a premium. And at the end of the three year contract you can opt to buy the motor or hand it back and get a new one. If it helps disabled people get around then where's the problem? Methinks the OP has a green glint in his eye.

Maybe he has a valid point. There are plenty cars for less than £230, so if we are to reduce our spending deficit why don't we reduce that figure?