It's the latest creation by London-based Land Rover and Range Rover customiser Kahn Designs and it laughs in the face of ice, snow and just about everything you'd encounter on and off road. Called the Flying Huntsman 110 6x6 Double Cab Pickup Soft-Top, it takes an iconic Land Rover Defender, adds two more wheels and a folding fabric roof to create a go-anywhere offroader with six wheels and a six-figure asking price.

UPDATE: VOLKSWAGEN EXTENDS SCHEME INTO 2018 - Some 24 car brands have offered some form of scrappage scheme so far this year. A few ended in September but others will run until the end of the year and both Ford and Volkswagen have announced they will continue to offer their incentives for the first three months of 2018. Not all of the schemes are the same, and they all have different restrictions on the cars you can trade in as well as the new ones you buy. That means the deal with Renault might be different to the one provided by BMW. Discounts across manufacturer ranges can vary too. That means there's a lot to know about scrappage schemes before diving in. Find out which ones offer the best value - and which scrappage schemes are worth avoiding.

Motorists will still be offered a discounted early payment fine within the first 14 days of receiving the Penalty Charge Notice (PCN), but that will also increase from £65 to £80 under the new rules. The hike will be applicable to all PCNs issued for failed Congestion Charge payments from January 2 while fines for other offences will increase from later in 2018.

If you're fortunate enough to own a rare Ferrari, a limited edition Lamborghini or an Aston Martin used in a Bond film you're guaranteed to be quids in. But what about the unlikely treasure troves? The Wheeler Dealer hosts - Ant Anstead (left) and Mike Brewer (right) - tell us what to look out for ahead of their new series premiering on UK TV on New Year's Day. Cars clockwise from top right: Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, Series 1 Land Rover, Peugeot 205 GTI, Audi Quattro.

The Fiat Punto, a new car you can buy from a UK showroom today, has been awarded the lowest crash test rating of all time, according to new assessments. Not a single model has received a zero-star rating since Euro NCAP started crash testing cars in 1997 - and the Punto has fallen foul of safety measures improving over the many years it has been on sale.

Fibre optic cables could be laid along England’s busiest motorways to beam live travel information to car dashboards in the future. Highways England said ‘connected vehicles’ could improve the efficiency of how routes are maintained, while simultaneously improving safety, in a report published today.

Alpine is back! After more than two decades on the shelf, Renault has relaunched the French sports car name, and the first new model to feature the badge is a peppy little sports car looking to going head-to-head with the Porsche Cayman. So is it the most enjoyable compact two-seater on the market today?

It's been named after the late three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna (inset) - the brand's most iconic driver - with some of the proceeds of its £750,000 price tag being donated to his charity to support underprivileged children in his home nation, Brazil. It gets McLaren's own designed dihedral doors, though this time with an additional feature. If you're happy to pay extra for it, the British-based car maker will fit the lower parts of the door panels with glass inserts so you can see the apex of the track. It should also help when trying not to kerb a wheel when parallel parking and squeezing through width restrictions in town.

If older diesel cars were replaced with newer vehicles, harmful nitrogen oxides emission would fall by 68% a year and vehicles would consume 173bn gallons less fuel annually, Kwik Fit said. However, the government's decision to increase taxes for the latest Euro 6 green diesel cars could see drivers holding onto their more polluting models for longer.

If Elon Musk had peered out of his California office window last week he might have caught a glimpse of the new electric car that's set to challenge his Tesla brand's market dominance. The vehicle in question is Jaguar's 2018 I-Pace, an all-electric premium SUV that is set to undercut the most affordable Tesla equivalent - the Model X 75D - by £10,000 and wipe the floor with it in a game of Top Trumps.

The Lamborghini Urus follows in the footsteps of the 1986 LM002, and the Italian exotic car maker has dropped a colossally powerful engine into a 4x4 to create an offroad family vehicle that will be able to blitz just about everything that comes into its path. Revealed in Italy today, the Urus uses a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine packing 641bhp and will cost £157,800 or $200,000 before tax.

Despite petrol and alternative-fuel vehicle registrations rising, a 31 per cent dip in diesel demand saw the total new car market fall by 11.2 per cent year-on-year. Industry representatives said the state of the sector is now a 'major concern' with business and consumer confidence being 'exacerbated' by the government's anti-diesel agenda.

Driving home for Christmas? If you are, you shouldn't get stuck in a jam caused by roadworks on the motorway, the Government has promised. Highways England's customer service director, Melanie Clarke, said there will be a 'roadworks embargo' enforced from 6am on December 22 to 12.01am on 2 January that will 'help people get away this Christmas with as little disruption as possible'.

Analysis of more than 7 million insurance quotes by comparison MoneySuperMarket has revealed which location has the most drivers with over-the-limit convictions in the last 12 months and also highlighted the occupations with the most drink and drug drivers in the country.

An anonymous bidder has paid £1,345,500 at auction for a 1964 Aston Martin DB5, once owned by the former Beatle, who bought it for £3,800 in the summer of 1964 and later by Chris Evans. Another vehicle affiliated with a member of the famed band was also sold at the same auction  - a 1966 Mini Coopers S that was adapted to carry the drum kit of none other than Ringo Starr went under the hammer for £102,300.

The fastest and most expensive BMW M5 has hit the road to deliver the sixth generation of the ultimate super-saloon and Ray Massey for behind the wheel. Aimed at deep-pocketed executives who want excitement on their daily commute while also being cosseted in luxury, the M5 costs from £89,640, although most will load it up with extras to top £100,000.

Another attack on diesel cars was slipped into the Budget last week, with the threat to bump new vehicles up a first-year tax band. But there's one small problem - the test they have to pass isn't in yet. So it's no surprise that the motor industry says the Government is demonising diesel. Is it right, or just worried about flogging cars?

As many as 22 per cent of motorists said they didn't know how to check the depth of their car tyres and a quarter couldn't top up the antifreeze. But these and other tasks are now included in a question and answer section in the driving test. Take a look at the other examples and tell see if you can do them.

The new limousine-style 4X4 promises heightened levels of luxury and comfort from reclining airline-style seats, longer legroom, a sumptuously redesigned cabin and power doors that will close behind you at the touch of a button rather than asking your chauffeur to do it for you.

Philip Hammond announced any new diesel car not meeting new emissions standards will go up one tax band for the first- year. But there is one big problem that will mean no car is exempt and some will cost £500 extra to tax - the test to pass isn't in yet. We've identified 10 models that will see the biggest hike including the cars pictured. From top left clockwise: Ssangyong Rexton, Toyota Land Cruiser, Merecedes-Benz GLS and Audi SQ7.

The most dangerous road in Great Britain has been revealed as the A537 between Macclesfield and Buxton - known as the Cat and Fiddle - in the Peak District. There were 23 fatal or serious collisions on that 11.6km stretch of road between 2010 and 2015.

This special edition Bentayga 4x4 is designed to packs a pair of shotguns in the boot along with rounds of ammunition, a hunting knife, binoculars and a set of champagne flutes. There's even a lockable humidor to keep expensive Cuban cigars for those early evening returns from trapsing the field with your hunting dog.

Almost 3.06million offences were recorded during 2016, which is the highest number since 2007 when 3.33million were issued. Some 2.15million of these were for speeding, which is the highest they've been according the the DfT's records and means 5,899 drivers are caught exceeding the limit every day in England and Wales.

This family hatchback is reliable, great to drive and easy to get your hands on. In fact, it took the crown as the best used car because the market is flooded with low-mileage examples with full service histories and barely a scratch on the paintwork. So can you guess which model it is?

If you have a dash cam fitted you will have solid evidence of what actually happened in an accident, it won't simply be your word against theirs. This evidence can be used by the insurance companies or the courts to ascertain the truth and apportion blame, something which could be very beneficial to you. Here are 7 of the best devices for capturing footage for under £150.

Hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers are to be hit by a £550million tax grab. Philip Hammond announced higher Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) on new diesel cars yesterday - and a tax rise for owners of diesel company cars. The VED increase, which will apply to new diesel cars registered from April 1 next year, will force buyers to pay up to £500 extra in the first year of ownership and raise more than £250million in total. All new diesels will be hit unless they meet EU 'real-driving' emissions standards, which will reflect more accurately a vehicle's emissions in real driving conditions rather than in the lab - even though the tests are not due for two years.

What Car?'s Target Price index, which calculates the most you should pay for a new car, shows that the average saving being offered on diesel cars is £2,716 - compared to £2,162 for petrol models. That's because diesel cars are already becoming more expensive to own due to new toxicity taxes, like the London T-Charge, and motorists are worried that the Chancellor is primed to ramp-up taxes in the Budget this week.

Even before it was off the design board, the dramatic face of the new Vantage became the inspiration for the DB10 - of which only ten were made for use in the Bond movie Spectre and driven by Daniel Craig. That's because Bond movie bosses preferred it to the looks of Aston's DB11. Now the real-life Vantage has been revealed and here are the first images of the 195mph 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 sports car.

Since 2008, cigarette packets have featured gory scenes depicting the damage caused by tobacco inhalation in a bid by EU lawmakers to cut smoking. And now road safety campaigners have called for the same tactics to be introduced to UK speed limit signs to prevent drivers from exceeding limits. A new study has found that 58% of motorists would back the gruesome signs, saying a crash scene image would make them reduce their speed.

The E-Pace is expected to build on the success of Jaguar's first ever SUV, the bigger F-Pace, and win over a new breed of family buyers to the firm. I was one of the first to get behind the wheel - both on and off the road - as Jaguar held its international launch around the highways and byways of leafy Surrey and Sussex this week.

Christmas shoppers who use the car have been warned to be 'very wary' about using private car parks during the festive period thanks to the snowballing number of fines in recent years. Firms that operate the sites are gearing up for a 'Christmas bonanza' as they are handing out almost 13 times more tickets than a decade ago, according to the RAC Foundation.

The SMMT said that used car sales in general - including petrol, hybrid and electric - were down 2.1 per cent between July and September, but used diesel demand was up 4.2 per cent in the same period. At a time when new diesel registrations are down by almost a third, why are second-hand sales on the increase?

The surcharge will cost all diesel motorists £2 an hour on top of existing hourly fees, which range from £1.20 to £6. The measures, which are due to be rolled out in January, will see the cost of parking surge for diesel owners who park in any of the 6,500 short-stay bays in the area.

A brand new Roadster emerged from the trailer of the company's other big reveal - an electric truck named the Tesla Semi - during a presentation at an airport in Los Angeles last night. The $200,000 sports car - an updated version of Tesla's first production vehicle - can seat four and travel 620 miles on a single charge, a new record for an electric vehicle. The car - which also features a removable glass roof - can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds. 'You´ll be able to travel from LA to San Francisco, and back, at highway speed without recharging,' Musk said. 'The point of doing this is to just give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars.'

The Department for Transport confirmed that 1.8 per cent of vehicles, the equivalent of 755,000 cars, motorcycles and vans, were untaxed in 2017 - that's compared to just 0.6 per cent in 2013, before the paper tax disc was abolished. In fact, more motorists are evading today then they have done in any other year for a decade.

Some 2,000 examiners will strike from December 4 in protest of changes to the driving test that are being introduced that day. It is estimated that it will lead to 10,000 test cancellations. Instructors have already raised concerns about the safety of one of the new additions, which they say is in breach of the Highway Code.

Come together, right now, for the ultimate car auction for Beatles fans. Next month's Bonhams Bond Street Sale in London offers the unique opportunity to buy not one but two highly-collectible classic vehicles that were owned by members of arguably the biggest band of all time. he first, an Aston Martin DB4 worth an estimated £1.5 million was originally bought by Sir Paul McCartney while the the second, a characterful 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford conversion, was owned by drummer Ringo Starr and could sell for a £120,000.

The new car-charging lamp posts will be in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and will allow electric vehicle owners to draw 100 per cent renewable energy from the council's street lights, the suppliers said.

Hot hatches of the current era are far from cheap, but there are ways of picking up a performance hatchback for much less. We countdown our top 10 favourites from the past you can buy today for as little as £2,000.

A Ford Escort RS Cosworth dubbed a 'time capsule' car after covering just 837 miles since 1996 has sold for £91,125 at auction. Today, the Escort Cosworth is considered a fully-fledged modern classic car and the two previous owners' decision to forgo driving this one and wrap it in cotton wool instead has been celebrated with the astonishing price fetched at Silverstone Auctions NEC Classic Motor Show sale.

Half of the top ten most reliable cars in their category sold in the UK are from Japanese brands, according to a new report by What Car?. But it was not such good news for UK car making. While the Honda Jazz and Audi A3 (pictured top left and bottom left) scored enviable 100% reliability, the diesel versions of the Range Rover Sport and Jaguar XE (pictured top right and bottom right) came bottom of their categories.

With the government determined to ban sales of new petrol and diesel powered cars by 2040, the walls are closing in on the internal combustion engine - and they all have sockets attached to them. With the nation's infrastructure far from ready to cope with a mass of new electric vehicles, could this new Chinese electric motorbike be the best option for commuters? We tested it to find out.

This is one of the 7,145 Escort Cosworths built for the road and is likely to be the least used. In two decades it's quadrupled in value and is the latest example of rapidly appreciating Fast Fords to become collectible on the classic car market. Can you believe an Escort is almost worth six-figures today?

An additoinal 300,000 cars in Britain will no longer need an MOT test from next year under new rules that will see any model older than 40 years exempt from the annual roadworthiness check-up. Currently, only vehicles built or first registered before 1960 are exempt from the MOT test. It will mean around 1.5% of all cars used on the road today will not need to pass the mechanical examination - and many people are concerned about the dangers of unchecked older vehicles.

One in three motorists pay over the odds for their car insurance - and the worst thing you can do is simply renew. We reveal ten tips to get the cheapest car insurance deal and show you the places to go to compare car cover and potentially save hundreds of pounds.