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They don't really count as 'tourists' but living in the Washington, DC, area I see a lot of cars with Diplomat license plates. I see them so often that most of the time they're not even worth noting.
It's possible to tell which country they are registered to by the two-letter code used in the plate number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_license_plate_designs_and_serial_for- mats#Diplomatic_license_plates
Our new neighbors who just moved in across the street, for example, have Brazil diplomat plates on their Jeep Compass (DVJ).
I photographed this Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid with low-numbered Georgia diplomat plates near the US Capitol building in 2012:
The code I see most often is 'LN' for Saudi Arabia; not too surprising because a building near my office is owned by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the US. Most of them are luxury cars or minivans. This one is a bit unusual:
Sometimes I'll see them on cars never sold in the US. This one caught my eye last night in the parking garage at the mall. It looks like any other Golf Mk4 sold here, but it has a Euro-spec bumper with a mounting bracket sized for Euro license plates, and this model was never sold in the US with the 1.6L; an exotic car hiding in plain sight. SDK indicates it is registered to the Embassy of Greece:
It's possible to tell which country they are registered to by the two-letter code used in the plate number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_license_plate_designs_and_serial_for- mats#Diplomatic_license_plates
Our new neighbors who just moved in across the street, for example, have Brazil diplomat plates on their Jeep Compass (DVJ).
I photographed this Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid with low-numbered Georgia diplomat plates near the US Capitol building in 2012:
The code I see most often is 'LN' for Saudi Arabia; not too surprising because a building near my office is owned by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the US. Most of them are luxury cars or minivans. This one is a bit unusual:
Sometimes I'll see them on cars never sold in the US. This one caught my eye last night in the parking garage at the mall. It looks like any other Golf Mk4 sold here, but it has a Euro-spec bumper with a mounting bracket sized for Euro license plates, and this model was never sold in the US with the 1.6L; an exotic car hiding in plain sight. SDK indicates it is registered to the Embassy of Greece: