LOL, don't tell the SNP or they'll be fighting in the streets to get that one. Maybe that's how they got away with it, it was Nicola Sturgeon's car. Couple along my step dad's road are FN--SXY and FN--HSY which usually makes me smile, especially since they live so close and nope, they're not personalised plates though maybe should be, to stick on that pink horse box Clarkson reckons Jordan owns. Used to be another not far from the same spot which I always thought was a shame being 1 number out or Tolkien nerds would have paid a fortune for it. It read EA14 ERU but if it'd been 15 then it would have made perfect Tolkien relevant sense, and yeah, aforementioned nerd here though not one who'd buy a personalised number plate. Ever. Glancing at number plates as you pass them to see if they're funny though, passes the time on boring journeys.
Yep time really does go by VERY quickly. Ya hear that all your life and think only old ppl say it, and then all of a sudden ya look back at the past 25 years and wonder where did go??!!!
@@Hewitt_himself AR in reference to AR 15 does NOT stand for Assault Rifle, it stands for Armalite Rifle, the name of the compaby that made it. Anyone who says otherwise doesnt know what they are talking about
@@youraveragereloader649 it literally means armalite rifle. They just also started calling it the armalite ar 15. They continued to use AR as it was the "brand". Especially since armalite sold the rights to colt anyway and ceased to exist in the 80s AR does still stand for Armalite Rifle, even for the shotgun
@@untaggedguru5602 technically no ones losing money in the series. Clarkson making up loses with amazon money and amzon already in profit from the viewers
Generally speaking, comedy does not age well. Most jokes are for a particular time and culture. I read a review about a Japanese man doing stand up comedy. The Japanese people in the audience laughed uproariously, but his jokes were not the least bit funny to English speakers. He made a joke about a man who dropped a piece of tofu. He picked it up, "And he ate the tofu!" All the Japanese people laughed at this, but it's not funny at all to English speakers.
Here in Colombia we can't really personalize our plates. Three letters, three numbers, your town name, go. However, it's got some amusing moments, like a Mercedes C-Class with the Bogotá plate BMW-666. Or the most amusing of all, some Police SUVs with the following plate sequence from a little town called Timaná: GAY-001 GAY-002 GAY-003 And so forth. They might be armoured, but they always get a chuckle when their drivers appear in the cities.
Hungarian plates are the same, although you can bay ABCD-12 or ABCDE-1 format for extra money. The best one to this day is NOT-911 on a brand new ambulance. The emergency phone number is indeed not 911, but rather 112.
In Germany the first one, two or three letters are the town or municipality your car is registered to, then there's two letters and three or four numbers. Everyone gets to choose the letters and numbers on their numberplate, but of course you're somewhat limited by the first two letters. Doesn't mean that people won't get creative, I think the best one I saw was AU TO 9001, so basically car over 9000.
@@mikeblatzheim2797 best one I remember was *NEW BH¹ ###* Also a popular one in my Neighboring town is *FÜ CK ###,* unfortunately I haven't yet spotted the one legend that got the license plate saying *FÜ CK 455* yet. Must be somewhere out there! ¹(BH is the german acronym for bra. The full word is "Busenhalter" , which literally translates to "titty holder" XD)
The license plates in Sweden has 6 signs; 3 letters and 3 numbers, for example DSL 537. However, on cars made in 2020 or later, the last number is replaced by a letter, for example HFX 94M. You can have a personalised plate, but it costs 7000 SEK (700€).
In Poland it works similar to Germany. But even if there are no personalized number plates we still get creative for example plates starting with EPA - Elvis Presley Alive or EBR - Ewidentny BRak mózgu (eng. Evident Lack of Brain).
Something I thought was ridiculous is they banned the entire SN07 run, replacing it with TN07, because SNOT is apparently offensive. But they allowed xx69 plates for the second half of 2019. I'm sure you've all seen the BJ69KFC Fiat 500 on social media for example.
They didn't exactly 'replace' SN07 with TN07, but had to 'invent' these 'T' series marks (including TF TJ TN) as Edinburgh was experiencing a shortage of marks due to increased vehicle registrations that period and witholding SN didn't exactly help. These T marks have not been issued again since 07. Newcastle have witheld NA21 and NA71.
So....wallker? Cause thats what a 1 is used for I know i know...wanker...but it goes back to what they are saying here. It just doesnt spell wanker. In the US we are given far more freedom when it comes to those personalised license plates
@@ConnorNotyerbidness yeah in Germany we have even less freedom, it's City of registration (HH for hamburg for example) two letters Wich we can choose, and 1-4 numbers Wich we can choose... Sometimes, in some cities you have to have 4 numbers.
I'd put an n instead of the 11 would be amusing not for Peter or saying he is one but get a plate saying that it would I imagine make the people in the car behind laugh aswell maybe
My friend Verity has V33 VER. It caught my eye because that’s Max Verstappen’s racing number and his shortened name in the position graphics. It’s obviously not a rude one but I’m staggered she could afford it if the prices are the same now as they were when this was made.
This is funny and interesting because a few years ago the Nova Scotia (Canada) government took a man's personalized license plate away because it was GRABHER. Which was his family name, Lorne Grabher. It was all over the news in the Maritimes and he took it to court and lost. He then appealed and lost that, and then tried to take it to the Supreme Court of Canada and they refused to hear it and so he couldn't go any further. The province was roughly divided in half with the support or opposition to his case. It was a huge thing here.
They're absolutely right about the personalised plates. They're ridiculously stupid. I had to warn my parents years back when I got a car to not even think about it. The next year my Dad bought my mother one. I dodged a bullet there.
Most hilarious I've seen was one that was KNK. But when it drove by I thought it was KKK. For miles until I caught back up with the car I was just incredulous that someone was even allowed to have that.
Steve Parrish was at The Goodwood Festival of Speed on Sunday and he had printed on his bike's windshield 'MORE THAN 2 STROKES AND YOU'RE A W@NKER!' (I replaced the @ myself just in case lol)
you missed the bit in one of the specials where jeremy points out how everyone else has anagrams on their plates, and it cuts to a shot of his car with a plate like "O55 CNUT" or something like that
Do you mean on British Sport Cars challenge??? I remember where Hammond in Elan had LIAR on his plate while James May in TVR had GOSH/GHOST in his plate and Jeremy had CTUN in his Jensen Healey (sorry if I am wrong on last car Brand)
Funny enough the way these plates work in my state is they are more expensive by year to register than just the first like a rational person would think. But I know someone that literally orders new plates every year instead of just renewing the plates because "it cost me the same so they can make me new ones"
There was also one from the Lorry challenge: "I think he's going to be quite cross with us." "No(!)" "Have you seen what he's done to the number plate?" "Oh for God's sake!" "Personal plates, he is such a pikey," They were wheeling Hammond's Opel Kadett which had the registration number "OLI V3R"
The most ironic vanity plate I've ever seen is VAN17Y. It belongs to a very modest lady I know from my orchestra, who drives a 10 year old Nissan Note. But the best part is how she acquired it: she imported a car into the UK from Ireland back in the 80s, and the DVLA just assigned that plate to her car! I bet it would go for a bomb at auction.
@@am_pm.17 You can reassign a personalised registration, called a "private plate" in the UK, to another car so if you buy a car with a private plate, you can transfer the registration to another vehicle. Doing this, the previous bearer will receive its original registration back or the next available one. You can also retain a private plate in case you don't have a vehicle to transfer it to or are saving it for a later purchase. Doing that, you get a certificate proving your ownership for when you want to use it again. In the situation of the 80s -> '10 Nissan Note, the woman in question could have either been transferring the registration between every car she's owned over the years or she retained it over those years. As to why the DVLA assigned a private plate imported to the UK from Ireland without some outside influence, I have no idea.
@@mutilator97 It may seem stupid, but remember... The Government basically sells you those Plates with the ability to rearrange the numbers, and then fine you for having rearranged the plate. If they're willing to do that to something so minor, what else have they done, and to something more major?
I wish top gear died with clarkson and the trio the chemistry between themselves is just iconic they love and hate each other kinda like brothers to each other and they both will lookout for each other in realy bad situations
🇭🇺 Here in Hungary, custom license plates are fully legal, the format is "XXXXX-5", which is five letters plus a number, excluding zero ‒ custom plates cost more than regular ones, of course. The first issued plate will be number 1, the second is 2, ect. ‒ this means maximum 9 can be issued with the same letters ‒, for example: MAZDA-1. 😊
If I'm not wrong you can basically do whatever you want on a Belgian plate, only restriction is numbers and letters must be separated by a - At least 1 letter and maximum 8. Also, it only costs €1.000 So uuhm, you see a lot of personalised license plates and for this price, it's guaranteed 90% are cringe. some examples: NOPETROL (on a Tesla) HIHIHI & HAHAHA (these 2 owners know each other) OPA-AUTO (translated GRANDPA-CAR) ZWAN (which is a brand for sausages) COVID-19 PLAY-BOY (on a white BMW) NR-PLAAT (translated LICENSE-PLATE) 0-MYGOD CLOCHARD (translated a hobo)
@@vlekarmy5424 Oh, I didn't wrote one thing: customised license plates are fully legal (here in Hungary), but they rarely can be seen on cars ‒ I think because of the much higher price for them.
There’s an old Canadian TV show called Bumper Stumpers where contestants have to guess the personalized (vanity) plates. It’s hard to watch from a production perspective but fun for people who like this kind of stuff. It’s on YT.
Maybe it’s reverse psychology He has a friend in a normal transit transporting the doobie, but he is a distraction to waste police time pulling him over so his friend doesn’t get caught 🤣
@@ajorngjdonaydbr no you don’t. My parents bought one years ago and haven’t ever gotten in trouble. Long as it still meets the general requirements you’re fine.
The best personalised plate would be R37 ARD, which is either a description of the kind of person who'd have a personalised plate, or a mechanic that specialises in tuning old cars.
That might be one of the best Top Gear thumbnails. Just him holding that license plate with that sort of "who did this, I'm sick of this flak" expression while the audience is laughing behind his back
In Germany you can’t really personalise your number plate but you can choose what letter/number combinations you want so you can have your initials & date of birth for example. However some combinations are banned, mainly due to associations with the Nazis, e.g. NS (National Socialist) , KZ (concentration camp), SA (Sturmabteilung), SS (Schutzstaffel) etc. Also some communist acronyms like STA-SI (in Starnberg near to Munich) or KG-B (in Bad Kissingen) are also forbidden. The district of Schwedt had the code SED up to 1994 when it was abolished when it was merged with a neighbouring district They reinstated their own code in 2014 but this time they had to change it to SDT…
For Yanks like me, I think it ought to be explained that an "ASBO" is an "anti-social behavior order", which is some sort of nanny state Britbong legal action designed to punish "anti-social behavior", which covers a hilariously wide range of "offenses".
you're saying this like court orders don't exist in America? All an asbo was is a court order telling you not to do something for a period of time or they'd prosecute for breaching it. They don't exist anymore and were replaced in 2014 by a CBO (Criminal Behaviour Order) which again is essentially a court order telling you what you can/can't/must do/go for a specific period of time or you face 4 years of prison time
I made a mistake of purchasing one of those DVLA number plates when I was 18. It had a number 3 for "E", and a 5 instead of an "S". It was only around 8 years later that I realised how cringy that plate was.
Actually, I have a personalised plate. Mumble years ago, my late father bought a car which - totally by coincidence - had letters that spelled out his (and my) surname. It's a short name, OK? Those nice people in Swansea have a scheme which allows you - for a fee - to transfer a "cherished" number-plate from one car to another. My father transferred this plate through about six cars. When he died, I inherited car and plate - and I've already transferred it once.
@BAL GB I thought about that, but the Ashes were won by England on their home soil that year. I copped heaps from my new English friends there at the time. I just told them that we Aussies let them win every now and then, just to keep them interested (LOL). It was good driving around England listening to the cricket on The Beeb!
Have to admit that AA55 HOL would be my favorite plate. 🙂 By the way... if I changed my name more British like it would be something like Arnold Holmes so this plate's A and HOL around A55 would suit me quite well.
