Manaz

What, couldn't afford to take a few lessons with a driving school, but can afford a nice new RS Impreza? Neither fog nor driving lamps are designed to be pointed at the ground - what good would they do then? If yours are pointed at the ground, they're maladjusted - you need to get that fixed, or they'll be completely useless to you when you actually need them. And no. I wouldn't drive a manual with an auto-only license.

OK. So you were breaking several laws (driving with fog/driving lamps on in a built-up area when there's no adverse weather conditions, and driving a car you're not licensed to drive), and the cop's a noob for booking you? Welcome to Idiotsville. Population: You. Now that we've got our opinion of your actions out of the way, let's look at your hopes for getting off the fine. The cop made a minor mistake with the sub-model of the car you were driving. Sure, you drive an RS Impreza rather than a WRX Impreza - by all means, challenge the fine, take your case to the magistrates court, and watch the magistrate charge you for wasting the court's time, and possibly even charge you with contempt of court. By all means, take a few relatively minor traffic charges, and change them into a criminal charge. Go on, make us proud! Make us laugh! Yes, that was sarcasm. In all seriousness, don't even bother trying to challenge the fines - you'll end up in more trouble than you're in now. Just cop the fines, learn your lesson, and get on with your life. Consider yourself lucky that you weren't arrested for driving unlicensed (you're not licensed to drive a manual car) and weren't forced to leave your car on the side of the road while you received a nice little ride down to the police station - the "noob" cop was well within his rights to do that to you! To the poster who thinks that using foglamps in Vic is legal at any time, you're crazy. Just because you didn't get booked in Vic but did in NSW doesn't make your conclusion in any way valid or logical - you were just lucky in Victoria. The national road rules forbid the use of driving or fog lamps in built up areas unless the weather conditions are bad - in other words, misty or heavy rain. There's no way that the Victorian laws, especially given Victoria's generally harsh enforcement of their road rules, would over-ride the national rule in this case with a more relaxed rule. An ex-girlfriend got booked for driving unlicensed in Victoria, but not in NSW - does that mean that driving unlicensed in NSW is legal? Of course it doesn't...