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Electric car owners could be left up to £70,000 out of pocket as firm goes bankrupt
More than 400 owners of vehicles made by Fisker could find themselves £70,000 out of pocket - after the Californian-based company declared it had gone bust in June.
Council to 'pick the pockets of drivers' as they plan to rake in more than £500MILLION in parking fines and fees over next decade
At a recent budget meeting, officials at the London Borough of Islington noted that parking income had not recovered after the pandemic.
How a 'stealth tax' deemed inevitable under Labour could end up costing drivers £800 a year
Under ambitious plans to reach net-zero, Labour has vowed to press ahead with the controversial ban of sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.
'Bear' filmed trashing luxury car revealed to be a person wearing a costume for insurance scam
Surveillance video of the incident emerged in January from outside a home in Lake Arrowhead, California, appearing to show a bear rip through the luxury car.
Sir Rod Stewart considers selling his Italian supercar collection over huge potholes outside his £4.6m mansion - amid long-running row with council over state of the roads
In a cruel twist of fate, Sir Rod recently admitted that he may have to part ways with his fleet after becoming frustrated at the plague of potholes around his £4.6m Essex mansion.
Rod Stewart set to ditch his fleet of luxury supercars as potholes near his home put him off owning them
Sir Rod Stewart has said he may ditch his fleet of luxury supercars after becoming frustrated at the plague of potholes around his Essex home.
Drive a Chelsea tractor? It could cost you more to park: Council wants to hike parking permits for owners of 'large luxury cars' like Range Rovers and Audi R8s in SUV crackdown
Draft proposals by Labour-run Haringey Council, in north London, will see the annual cost of residents' parking permits rise by as much as £87 for the largest vehicles.(file image)
Drivers fined £4.1MILLION by mistake in a single year at Dartford Crossing that connects Essex to Kent
Conduent was handed a £150 million contract by National Highways to manage crossing payments but drivers found they were being fined or charged when they had not crossed
Meet the motorist who exposed 'PPI 2.0': Postman with 'penchant for fast cars' took finance firm to court over 'secret' commission payments - and unearthed a compensation scandal
EXCLUSIVE: Postman Andrew Wrench is one of the unlikely architects of a court case that sent Britain's car finance firms into a spiral amid a row over 'secret' commission paid to dealers.
Drivers pay the price in premiums as 'cash-for-crash' moped scams soar four-fold in a year, new figures reveal
Scams involving moped riders deliberately crashing into other vehicles for bogus insurance claims have soared four-fold, new figures show.
Britain's most expensive dead end edges closer to completion: £50m 'ghost junction' could soon be connected to road more than five years after it was built
The 'ghost junction' off Bristol's M49 meant to connect a distribution centre but has spent years in limbo, unfinished. Now a council decision could see it finally being completed.
Older drivers are NOT more dangerous than younger motorists: Experts claim elderly are safe behind the wheel despite tragic death of boy, 3, mowed down by 91-year-old woman
Four years after the tragic death of Xander Irvine, a three-year-old boy killed after an elderly car driver in Edinburgh lost control of her vehicle, the law governing older motorists is under fresh scrutiny.
Pensioner triumphs over bungling council after it tried to revoke his parking permit of 20 years when it realised he lived on a 'private road'
For two decades, Richard Payne, has purchased an annual parking permit which allows him to leave his car within his postcode area.
We've been blocked from getting onto our own driveways by the council's new cycling safety 'wands' - and they've only made things more dangerous for everyone
The 1ft tall posts on Wimborne Road in Poole, Dorset, are making pulling in to and reversing out of driveways much more difficult, in some cases trapping locals in.
Myna traffic delays: Hilarious moment angry bird attacks motorway camera
Footage shows the myna landing in front of the camera monitoring a section of the Northern Gateway Toll Road, between Silverdale and Puhoi, on October 21