Car News – Highest parking Fines?

Wealthy supercar owners who brazenly flout parking rules owe millions of pounds in unpaid fines to London councils.

Foreign-registered Bugattis, Lamborghinis and Ferraris — many flown in from the Middle East by private jet for the summer — have become a common sight in areas such as Knightsbridge, where they are often seen parked illegally on yellow lines, in bus lanes and residents’ bays.

But about 80 per cent of tickets go unpaid and officials admit they are powerless to pursue the owners in their home countries.

Now Westminster council has named and shamed some of the most prolific offenders in the hope of recouping nearly £4 million in unpaid fines.

Near the top of the authority’s most wanted list is the Arab owner of a £300,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom bearing the number plate 3HVB, who has racked up 18 tickets and owes £2,000. Another is the driver of a £200,000 Lamborghini Murcielago, registered in Dubai with the number plate E477, who had almost £2,000 for 19 unpaid tickets written off but now owes a further £500 for five more tickets.

In the last three years offenders have failed to settle a total of 36,332 penalty notices issued in Westminster, leaving the council £3,776,490 out of pocket.

One of those is the owner of a Bugatti Veyron L’Edition Centenaire – registration 444 – who would have spent about £1.2 million to buy the 250mph car but failed to pay £120 after he parked on a yellow line outside Selfridges.

Another Veyron, painted red and black and with the distinctive registration 111111, was ticketed this month in Bryanston Street, near Marble Arch, but the council has not traced its driver.