This brings up another thing I don't understand about the way cars work in other countries... registartion.

Why is it, that used cars in Australia (and maybe elsewhere I guess) list as a selling point the "rego" (registration)? When the new buyer buys the car, it will have to get a new registration, plate, and deed anyway won't it? That's how it works in the US... I guess maybe this means that unlike here, the registration is not bound to the owner and the car, but just the car itself? (For example, three different people can own the same car over the course of a few years and still have the same rego/plate?)

In Sweden the plate is bound to the car only, from the day it's sold to the day it's scraped. Three years after it has been taken of the registry it might be reused on a new car.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_140646-Peugeot-305-1980.html

The reason why used car ads in Australia state the car has a registration is that it is a bit of a pain to re-register the car.
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/getnewrego/expiredcancelled.html

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

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.

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.

Can't beat the UAE: http://jalopnik.com/357632/143m-vanity-plate-shatters-record-makes-orphan-babies-cry

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


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.

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.

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

No idea

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?

Ah, the guy has well thought about it