Euro-style license plates

[AMCRambler]

Lately I've been seeing cars around here with European style plates on the car. At first I thought that maybe it was people from Europe shipping their cars over here and driving before they get them registered here. I don't even know if that's legal but whatever.

Then I've been seeing them on the front of cars that have a NY State plate on the rear and now I'm thinking it's some kind of stupid fad. They all seem to be European cars, BMW's, Volkswagens, Porsches, etc. So is this the new rage if you drive a euro-import car? Fake european union plates?

If so I'm surprised the cops aren't writing tickets left and right for it. New York requires a front and rear plate on the vehicles, of that I'm sure. I can't recall if the numbers on the front matched the numbers on the rear, but whether that matters to the law I don't know.

 

[mwmorph]

People have been doing this for years on euro vehicles. It's really just rice. People want to drive in the point that their car is European and looky, looky the euro plate fits perfectly on their front bumpers.

 

[krunchykrome]

welcome to a long time ago

 

[nakedfrog]

I think I've seen this for over a decade.

 

[T2urtle]

a lot of them say something related to the car... most VW have plates in terms of VDUB001. i saw a BMW that said BEAMER and numbers.

they are just for boredom. there are cars rolling around with japanese plates too that state their engines like SR20, EJ20 VQ35 etc.

 

[AMCRambler]

I guess it's been around longer than I thought. I'm in upstate NY so it takes the fads longer to get here from the west coast and from NYC. I see a lot more of them now though. It is pretty stupid, but I guess it's no stupider than vintage plates on a classic car.

 

[Xyclone]

Here in CA, a front license plate is required. This means idiots who get their car through European Delivery or who have bought the plates themselves leave it under their CA license plate.

 

[ViviTheMage]

old fad

 

[Fenixgoon]

german plates >>>>>>>>> US plates

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yeah, well over here you have people running US plates on American cars. Completely illegal, even if the number is correct, and you'll get a fix notice and a fine if stopped by Police.

 

[PricklyPete]

That is pretty ridiculous if it is just for show...but honestly they should switch to euro-style licences plates for everyone...so much easier to read and for some reason they seem less intrusive...don't know why I think that...but it just seems that way

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
That is pretty ridiculous if it is just for show...but honestly they should switch to euro-style licences plates for everyone...so much easier to read and for some reason they seem less intrusive...don't know why I think that...but it just seems that way

Don't know why that would be. They are much bigger.

here are two of my cars with UK plates for reference.

Much bigger than US plates.

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
That is pretty ridiculous if it is just for show...but honestly they should switch to euro-style licences plates for everyone...so much easier to read and for some reason they seem less intrusive...don't know why I think that...but it just seems that way

Don't know why that would be. They are much bigger.

here are two of my cars with UK plates for reference.

Much bigger than US plates.

Euro plates aren't as tall as US plates. The US plates look more bulky when the Euro plates most likely have more surface area.

 

[exdeath]

Not half the eye sore that the ones bondo'ed into the trunk lid at an angle are.

http://www.mike.vcn.com/tmp/ricer_civic_2.jpg
http://images.truckinweb.com/f...explorer+rear_view.jpg

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
That is pretty ridiculous if it is just for show...but honestly they should switch to euro-style licences plates for everyone...so much easier to read and for some reason they seem less intrusive...don't know why I think that...but it just seems that way

How are they easier to read?

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: exdeath
Not half the eye sore that the ones bondo'ed into the trunk lid at an angle are.

QFT

 

[halik]

I've had it on my A4 and also on my CLK...

 

[DarkThinker]

I personally wouldn't put it on a Euro car if I had one, but I don't see anything too bad with it, especially in states were you only need to have one license plate on the car. As long as the car is not riced up....whatever

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: halik
I've had it on my A4 and also on my CLK...

linkie

Now imagine putting a US license plate on top of that. It looks messy.