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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=antp,25045] No idea. When they switched letters & numbers, they changed a little the typeface (characters seem a little bolder) but kept the old narrow format. It is nearly as narrow as US plates, allowing to put it on US-specs cars (borders have to be a little folded sometimes). I guess it is an advantage even if these cars are not very common. EU-plate would not add much. I would not like to lose our red+white colors for plates, but I am not against a EU-sized plate with euroband if Europe requires it some day. Note that EU-format plates are already used for dealer plates (green on white, starting by Z) and trailer plates (black on white, starting by U or Q). As front plates are made by the car owner (only rear plate is delivered by the state authorities), lots of cars have a EU-format plate on front.[/quote]
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ingo

Ah, the guy has well thought about it :smile:

atom

You are sitting in your car when this guy comes up behind you, you see him and his licensplate through your rearview mirror, what do you see now?

ingo

No idea

atom

A Swedish man wanted X32IARO as his personalized plate, it got refuesed, can you guess why?

ingo

Does the Netherlands have personalized plates? I thought, it was never possible, but two days ago I saw 88 GGG 8 on a brend new Renault Megane Cabriolet. A coincidence? I don't think so.

Gag Halfrunt

Quote From: ingo

Does the numbers of the Orkney Islands starts with O.? Today I say a Volvo V 70 XC with a British plate, beginning with OE. The small flag in the blue Euro-part was a Scottish one.

Under the current system, the area codes OA to OY all belong to Oxford. All Scottish area codes begin with S.

Quote From: ingo

...even the "national" symbol of the Isle of Man you can sometimes see in the UK.

The Isle of Man is a Crown dependency, like each of the Channel Islands, and has its own registraton system. The Manx triskelion symbol appears on new Isle of Man plates but I'm sure it wouldn't be allowed on British plates, because it would give the impression that the car was registered in the Isle of Man.

BlackIce_GTS

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antp

Quote From: taxiguy

Are you kidding? You don't mean 6.20 Euros do you? Here it is only 30 extra dollars to get those plates! (approx. 20 Euro). For the price they charge over there, you could buy a whole car!

No, I mean 620.
A normal registration is something like 50 € if I remember well.

Some special plates in UK were sold for very high prices, much higher than that.

ingo

Does the numbers of the Orkney Islands starts with O.? Today I say a Volvo V 70 XC with a British plate, beginning with OE. The small flag in the blue Euro-part was a Scottish one.

By the way: the new European plates have on the left side a blue Euro-space. There is shown the star-ring, the EU-symbol and underneath the country-letter (D for Germany, NL for Netherlands, PL for Poland and so on).

In Britain it's a bit different. There you can choose between the Euro-stars (very rarely to see), the Union Jack (as G-Mann has in the database, too), the English St.George's Cross (as chris40 and stronghold have), also the Scottish St.Andrew's Cross is available (the majority of Scottish cars have them today). Also the lion from Wales you can choose, even the "national" symbol of the Isle of Man you can sometimes see in the UK.

marioman3138

In Auustralia, you can swap the car regostration plate. Expensive. Custom plates are often swapped.