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Euro-style license plates

AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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
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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.
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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.
 
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
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How are they easier to read?
 
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
 
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