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The Irish Sun
12-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
Thieves stole my £50k Range Rover & drove it to AFRICA – & to make it worse I'd left treasured item inside
A DRIVER has tracked his car stolen from outside his home — as it was spirited 6,849 miles away to Tanzania. Jimmy Munday, 44, had hidden an Apple AirTag in the £50,000 Range Rover. 3 Jimmy Munday tracked his car stolen from outside his home — as it was spirited 6,849 miles away to Tanzania 3 Jimmy was able to track the £50k motor after hiding an Apple AirTag in it Credit: Getty But after it was pinched from his driveway he watched helplessly as it headed off across the globe. His frustration was made worse as he had left his favourite hat on the back seat. It is now in Tanzania where he can see it is driven to and from the same place each day. He said: 'I often wonder who's driving it and if they are also wearing my favourite hat I left in the back seat. Size 9.' Range Rovers and other high-end motors are increasingly being stolen to order for buyers in Kenya, READ MORE MOTORS NEWS Married dad Jimmy's 4x4 was stolen from Chelmsford, Essex, a few months ago and was soon being driven across Europe. Jimmy's tracker showed it was shipped over the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal. It was then driven across Africa — through IT consultant Jimmy's pals have teased him about his stolen car — even writing a plot for a screenplay, imagining a hidden stash of illegal pills in the car and gangsters on his trail. Most read in Motors One wrote: 'But it's not just the car Jimmy wants back. Inside it? His favourite hat, left resting on the back seat.' Watch moment car thief boy, 9, sneaks into uninsured £135k PORSCHE to go on daring joyride - but it doesn't end well 3 The car was tracked going through the Suez Canal before ending up in Tanzania Credit: Reuters
The Irish Sun
25-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
‘Offensive' number plates banned by DVLA revealed – including ‘pro-Brexit' and ‘Nazi' registrations
THE DVLA has banned hundreds of number plates it deems to be too offensive — including pro-Brexit ones such as EU75 OUT as well as AU75 WTZ. Ahead of the '75' reg launch on September 1, the agency released a list of 436 not allowed. 1 Pro-Brexit number plates such as EU75 OUT have been banned Motorists caught driving with them could be fined up to £1,000 and given a failed MOT. To avoid provocative references to political issues such as EU membership, plates such as EU75 OUT, EU75 SHT, EU75 WAR and EU75 YES are barred. To avoid encouraging criminal behaviour, the combinations LE75 KLL (Let's kill), as well as MU75 DER (Murder) are also on the banned list. The plates AU75 WTS and AU75 WTZ are also outlawed as they could be seen as a reference to the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp in READ MORE MOTORS NEWS Also banned are the rude combinations BA75 TRD, BA75 SHT and SH75 TTY. Last September, private number plates seller RegTransfers also reported that 210 specific character combinations would be censored. Its chief executive Mark Trimbee said: 'These bans ensure that number plates on the road aren't ones that could be translated into something inflammatory, offensive, insulting, obscene or otherwise problematic.' He added: 'There are almost always some, however, that might take a bit of deciphering but the DVLA has to err on the side of caution.' Most read in Motors People are just realising the hidden meaning behind the letters on car number plates
