In Germany you can get "personalised" license plate, by paying a small sum of, I think, 10€, when you register your car (and only then, you cannot do it afterwards). You can, depending on how many letters identify the city your car is registered and how many letters/numbers remain available (in Germany you can only get so many letters/numbers in a plate), choose what the numbers and the letters are. So in Munich (M) people either put their initials and anything related to their birth date (e.g. M AM 1942 - Munich, Anton Müller born in 1942) or something that sounds familiar together with the initials of the plate (e.g. M AX, M PH, STA RS where STA if for Starnberg close to Munich). You are usually out of luck if you have a city letter combination like FFB (Fürstenfeldbruck) which leaves you, practically, to your birth date/initials combination... In Austria you have way more freedom. I am not aware of other EU countries that allow some form of personalisation for license plates.
*RANT* Not that anyone cares, but this is the internet and I will use it as I please! Missouri has to be the WORST state in the freaking country to get your car registered in! Just moved from Kansas (and bought the Prius at the same time). So far it has cost me more that $1500 to register my car! (yes, part of that IS sales tax). Now they want MORE $$ to "pick-up" the vanity plate! They told me "If you wait untill July to pick it up it's cheaper." Well waiting is what I will be doing! Sware to god, highest taxes worst roads! *end RANT*
Could it be that you bought the Prius within 3 months of moving to another state? In CA, you have to pay sales tax for a car that's bought within a certain time frame from another state when registering for a CA plate.
Something like that. Lets just say that I've had to pay double on some taxes, and I am not happy about it.
en·nui (n-w, nw) n. Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: Interesting plate but I don't get it.
With gas being $4.20+/gal in NY, I hope I get a bunch of laughs from it while sitting in traffic on the highway.[/QUOTE] Your plates are the best! Way to go!
Agreed! I thought about getting a vanity plate and decided it would just piss people off and make my car a target so I opted only for a clean special fuel plate which allows me to drive in the HOV lanes in Virginia with only one person in the car. That was well worth the money!
My Prius - 50 PLUS My Jeep - JEEP 4WD My 370 Z - Z ME I love vanity plates. I usually change them every couple years when they expire. Just to keep it interesting.
Finally got my new plates after waiting 3 1/2 months. Thanks california DMV. Mine fits my car perfectly. LO N ECO
