Britain's worst parker racked up a record £44,000 in fines last year.
Just one vehicle got 282 tickets in Ealing, West London. None was paid so the local council is now owed £43,915.
The second-worst offender, according to a national study, was a driver in Westminster who had the same number of penalties but owes £27,360.
A VW driver owes Harrow council in North West London £31,007 for 187 unpaid tickets from last year.
And it’s not just London that has serial parking offenders who ignore tickets. A Vauxhall in Reading, Berks, racked up 177 and an Audi TT in Brighton amassed 147 fines, totalling £15,642.
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In Southport, Merseyside, a luxury Mercedes C220 also got 147 tickets and owes £7,520 as none has been paid.
And in Devon, a Vauxhall Astra picked up 71 tickets in Torquay. They are unpaid so Torbay council wants £4,070.
Councils revealed the penalties, typically £80 or £130, under freedom of information laws. The fines are often cut by 50% if paid quickly.
Most of the unpaid tickets are by the worst offenders – often because the DVLA has no up-to-date records of a car’s registered keeper or the vehicle has a foreign number plate and finding the owner proves difficult.
Bailiffs instructed by councils to enforce the fines can sometimes clamp or confiscate a vehicle to claw the money back.
In other cases, illegal parkers pay all their tickets, giving the impression fines are an acceptable expense.
A motorist in Kensington and Chelsea, West London, paid 123 fines, amounting to £16,850 and the 124th was cancelled. In Manchester a Range Rover driver paid off 172 parking tickets.
David Renard, transport chief of the Local Government Association, said: “Councils use all the powers available to them to tackle the small number of people who flout these rules over a prolonged period of time and this is reflected in the size of fines.”
