quite soon

[campbell]

I'm with Simon. In most cases, the plate should reflect something about its owner rather than the car, IMHO - unless you explicitly plan to sell it with the car. After all, as has also been said, people already know what kind of car it is.

For a Hoy, into his Se7ens and known as Obi Wan to his friends, my money is on...

OY07 OBY



£994 from http://www.newreg.com

[Lawrence]

I'm with Simon. In most cases, the plate should reflect something about its owner rather than the car, IMHO - unless you explicitly plan to sell it with the car. After all, as has also been said, people already know what kind of car it is.

For a Hoy, into his Se7ens and known as Obi Wan to his friends, my money is on...

OY07 OBY



£994 from http://www.newreg.com

Plates are a strange phenomena, some work most don't.
Short plates look different due to the lack of characters and most Elises have no front plate at all. The biggest benefit I get from having a plate on a car is that when I sell the car it no longer looks like it was ever mine. I'll let you all decide when you see it if it works or not. It will be a legally spaced plate till it falls off

ps Hope you are feeling better Simon

[tut]

Got a feeling that if I ever had to sell my car, the N1 TUT plate might not just make it the best selling point...........

tut

[tenkfeet]

P.S. EII OPA gets my vote if you have to have a silly plate I still think getting it registered at the factory with an AU plate gives it maximum class, though

Robin

My car is a an AU reg what is the significance ? Is that just the local designation for Norfolk?

[robin]

AU is indeed the local reggie for the factory, so ex-Lotus staff cars, press cars and post-reg factory converted cars (like 135R's and so on) are often on AU plates at least to start with.

EGOR is back on as an AU03 plate now that Gareth has his plate back - I quite like it, actually - quite geeky

Robin

[campbell]

And I think in previous prefix style, xAH was the letter grouping for Norfolk. Saw lots of cars with AAH in magazine pics, which I always found amusing!

[simon]

ps Hope you are feeling better Simon

I've no idea what you mean!

[simon]

BTW, today's Autocar says a new version of the Europa will be shown in Geneva next month and it will have a re-style and better quality interior to try and answer the criticisms in reviews.

[r055]

that'll be a rare model you have then Lawrence...

[tenkfeet]

AU is indeed the local reggie for the factory, so ex-Lotus staff cars, press cars and post-reg factory converted cars (like 135R's and so on) are often on AU plates at least to start with.

EGOR is back on as an AU03 plate now that Gareth has his plate back - I quite like it, actually - quite geeky

Robin

Cheers, I was told when I bought the car it was going to be one of the press cars but it never happened.

[GregR]

Robin, Egor is actually an ex-lotus press car, so extra kudos there

[Lawrence]

that'll be a rare model you have then Lawrence...

Indeed

I'm beginning to think I'll have the only one that's not a dealer demo

BTW, today's Autocar says a new version of the Europa will be shown in Geneva next month and it will have a re-style and better quality interior to try and answer the criticisms in reviews.

Excellent news, did it mention the federal cars at all

[woody]

AU is indeed the local reggie for the factory, so ex-Lotus staff cars, press cars and post-reg factory converted cars (like 135R's and so on) are often on AU plates at least to start with.

EGOR is back on as an AU03 plate now that Gareth has his plate back - I quite like it, actually - quite geeky

Robin

TVF was the suffix back in 2000 - my car's just a few digits from the press S1 exiges.

[jj]

My car is also an AU04 being one of the first dealer demo cars (Apparently they were all yellow or orange with touring)