Gazellio wrote:

I also have had both and there is little to compare....

That looks great
Is it true in Germany that you have to get a new licence plate for each owner of the car?, a friend told me how the system works there and it sounded far more complicated than the UK.

LOL your system is complicated (and f***** expensive sometimes) !

its easy.

for an example my plate:



S = Stuttgart (mandatory - the town i live in)

FF = chosen for free online (Full Fat for me - no one understands this here )

42 = chosen for free online (4.2l)

as long as it is available  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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Oh sorry, I didn't mean how the plate is lettered, how I meant is, in the UK a car is given a licence plate when it's first registered when new, that number stays with the car for life so when you change owners you just send the paperwork off and the new owner keeps the same licence plate, but a friend said in Germany you have to remove the licence plate when you sell the car and the new owner has to get a completly new one?, and if you move from say Berlin to Stutgart for example you would also have to change your licence plate to the new city also.

yep that's it - but on the other side you can choose cool individual plates (you call them private) for an extra of 29 Euros when you change plates, town or car or you don't like yours any more - you just *lose* the plates and you can get new individual ones  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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You can change to private plates here but generally anything that's good tends to be expensive so there are plus sides to the German method, I just thought it seemed a bit of a long winded way of doing things for a Country that has such a reputation for efficency .

So if you have a "good" plate, can you take it from car to car over time?

in the same area - yes - soon we will have the swiss method - you got one plate and no. for all of your cars ...


the fugliest thing i ever saw was my former plate from my DB7 Vantage - S-DB 7000 - afterwards , when i sold the car i found it fixed on a Mercedes CLK  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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I like the Swiss method. Get a good plate and spread it around.

Only reason I like the UK system (even though I have private plates on some cars) is that my 110 still has the plate from when it was made by Land Rover Special Vehicles for the Camel Trophy. So having the plate on it still is part of it's history.

Other than that, a plate for each person makes a lot of sense to me.

i think its the same in Belgium - when you are born you get your plate and you keep it for a lifetime...  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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The American system of being able to have all letters would be quite good too.

yep we keep our plates, i bought mine DSB999 for 620 euros though cos i wanted my initials, i wanted 001 but it was taken 2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

Love the new avatar Angel, bring on Sunday, we will win it for you and stick one up no 8  No body told me there would be days like these

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LOL didn't even watched the match was to friends place in South of France over the weekend  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

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wish I had been with you  No body told me there would be days like these

L Reg dark purple/burgundy sort of Disco
R Reg very red disco
Bright Silver disco TD5
Sort of bright girly powder blue disco TD5
Gone (a while back) 1999 P38 4ltre Autobiography. 13 miles to the gallon, 10,000 miles to the engine
Gone MY06 RRS HSE Rimini Red
Gone MY10 RRS HSE Purple
Gone 2007 TDV8 Vogue OF Stornoway Grey (In Love again)
2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue
MY66 VOGUE TDV6 3.0 Red