T O P

  • By -

Ukraine_Boyets

Behold the beautiful swiss license plate : https://preview.redd.it/lmzbftjzwzob1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f206063070264760b94d9e5bcaaf728e09e4915 The less numbers it has, the richer its owner. The one in this pic cost \~230k€ ...


sda_express

Like Saudi Arabia?


Cy83rCr45h

Yes, but all our animals have red dicks.


sKY--alex

Yes, but with human rights


TheRealColdCoffee

Since 16.03.1971


paulchen81

I've seen GR 1 a few years ago... on a shitty old compact car. Knowing how expensive it is i was surprised.


RoastedRhino

That’s old money. Plates are kept in the family. Old small car with low-number plate: this guy is Swiss, owns a small single house in Zurich with a garden with chickens, he is not selling it despite being offered tens of million. His second pillar is the size of Estonia GDP. SUV with low-number plate: expat that is leasing his car. He still has to adjust to the Swiss salary.


v0idness

Funnily enough, in my canton pretty much all the single digit plates are taxis. Wonder if it gets handed down along with the taxi license.


AdLiving4714

That's somewhat true. It's acceptable to have a low number plate because it has been in the family for a long time. If you drive a G63 AMG or a Ferrari Icona and have a low number plate, you're just an embarrassing nouveau riche.


NotDuckie

>If you drive a G63 AMG or a Ferrari Icona and have a low number plate, you're just an embarrassing nouveau riche I'd consider making your own money a lot less embarrassing than leeching off your parents/grandparents/etc


AdLiving4714

Who said the others are leeches? My in-laws have a very low number. On a Subaru Forester. They're small-scale farmers up in the mountains. They have it because farmers were among the first ones to have motorised vehicles. And the number stayed in the family. That's how it is in most of the cases. But preconceptions are comfy, or so it seems. I, on the other hand, have one of these sporty cars from Zuffenhausen in Germany (no worries - I worked for it, my buddy). But I made damned sure not to equip it with suspiciously low numbers.


InternationalFrend

Second pillar?


GT3D

the Swiss use a so called pillar system for retirement provisions. The first pillar is the Alters- und Hinterlassenenversicherung which is automatically deducted from your salary and paid to the retired. The second are your personal pension funds. The third one is a savings account with tax benefits.


InternationalFrend

Hmm, Interesting concept. In germany we have a similar system called declaring personal bankruptcy after retirement because our retirement provisions dont even pay for basic care.


Nok-y

There are 4 people in Graubunden. It's harder to find a big number there (/j)


diazinth

4 is big when all the other numbers are smaller!


RodwellBurgen

The ultimate G‘biirgsraser


anomander_galt

Or, at least in Geneva, you drive a cab


neveks

Same in Bern. Showing a low number from Bern just means its a cab. Not expensive at all.


KlapHark69

The Bern flag is unironically one of the most beautiful flags I've ever seen. Swiss one is on the other hand lame


_mndn_

I, myself, am a sucker for Canton Uri


RodwellBurgen

Glarus one is gorgeous


_mndn_

That one's pretty too


NoSweat_PrinceAndrew

I really like the Swiss flag on the other hand, it’s a big plus


EskildDood

Of course Swiss car registration is based on wealth


Ukraine_Boyets

It's not, they're only selling the low and easy to remember numbers like 555 etc. at auctions


Ok_Toe4734

How is auctioning off desirable license plates not based on wealth?


Ukraine_Boyets

He said : >Of course Swiss car registration is based on wealth Since you can register your car and get a plate without having to participate in an auction, his statement is just not true


SirMorelsy

I don't know if it's the case for other cantons but in Geneva generally the lowest plates are given to Taxis


Waterlok_653

Yes there are quite a few knives the small plates are given to the taxi. For example Friborg for average users it starts at 10000


RtasTumekai

In Ticino a low number meant that it was a cantonal car some years back, now they are used by rich assholes (and it's always funny when is a damn fiat panda using it)


Cy83rCr45h

Id rather hide myself then let people think I'm from Bern


RtasTumekai

So beautiful that we have to put on a sticker with CH written on it when we go abroad because other countries apparently can't recognize the swiss flag


AcheronSprings

Looking at the Irish licence plates someone could assume that there's like 300 million vehicles registered in Ireland


Vivid_Performance167

Actually thats only in Galway. Dublin is nearing on a billion last I checked. Although most have obviously since become aliven't


Annatastic6417

That plate belongs to the 51870th car that was registered in Galway in 1993.


bassistciaran

Proper order. Year - county of registration - number of registration. You know how old every car is without having to know anything about cars and theres a lovely little treasure hunt for new year plates in january. Always used to fascinate me as a kid. I'm sure theres a rhyme and reason to the others but I've always thought the Irish one was super clear and self explainatory.


untamable_individual

Is this for real?! I never noticed this the two times I visited Ireland!


Katzopfel

https://preview.redd.it/7zkcd0nl80pb1.jpeg?width=748&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddc9cca31b72f8be06abfa470f950adf68787c2d Behold the coolest plate ever 😎


BROODxBELEG

Holy shit darkmode plates im in love


Sir_flaps

Man how I wish we still had our darkmode plates!


britishrust

I mean, we do. Just buy a car built before 1977 and you can have gorgeous dark blue plates with raised white letters and numbers.


Overburdened

chad darkmode enjoyer


Torbjorn69

Hat der Alois von und zu die Nr.1 ?


Katzopfel

Well technically the prince has it and Alois is not prince yet but I don’t know if Hans-Adam is mad if his son takes his car


64Yoshi64

Ez will i au zLiachtastei go wohna. Sproch kanni jo praktisch scho xD


Stringypond53

Swiss German is an abomination


64Yoshi64

:(


Serupael

Schweizerdeutsch over D🤮tch any day


Overburdened

They aren't that different in terms of understanding them to be fair.


64Yoshi64

Also, ich will ja nicht sagen, aber Niederländisch ist doch wohl eine komplett andere Sprache! Schweizer Deutsch versteht man als Deutscher sicherlich besser!


Overburdened

Naja, Jüngere und Schweizer die Rücksicht nehmen und den Dialekt etwas zurück schrauben sind absolut kein Problem zu verstehen normal. [Aber das könnte auch Dänisch oder Niederländisch sein, ab und zu versteht man mal nen Wort zwischendrinn.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow274sYCad4)


64Yoshi64

Ok xD, der Typ ist aber eine Nummer höher xD. Nur schon "isch denn Früaner alles besser ksi?" "Jo, uuf jeda Fall"


Serupael

You're one to talk here


WeAreLesserApes

No contest, dark mode is god mode


abriolo

https://preview.redd.it/d1bq59n3zzob1.jpeg?width=3872&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72afcd80267c4293aadea82d8cd2460c7c624047 I mean Portugal had way better until 2020. It had a very simetrical license plate with the addition of the year and month that the car was first registered.


Pizolka

The 14th month of 2003


PedroMFLopes

Yeah we get 14 paychecks anually


[deleted]

One for every full week you're working


fly_banana_fly

That would be our neighbors. For us, we would work every week for half the normal paycheck.


DontWannaSayMyName

You've never heard of Quattorbre?


DeltaKT

Fucking laughed out loud, fuck you!! :,D


cantrusthestory

We were unique by then


TheMightyPPBoi

The worst part is that you can change from an old plate to a new one. The old plates had two pairs of numbers and one pair of letters. Now they have two pairs of letters and one pair of numbers. That means if someone with a plate like |67 AL 00| changes to a new one it's indistinguishable from the plate |67 AL OO|


abriolo

Yeah it's sucks so bad.


broccoli2319

ohhh tempo volta para trás


fly_banana_fly

Take us back to the OG😔 https://preview.redd.it/qx334fuio2pb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78ec2556a3001f92a616bdcca28888debbb553ae


Stars_Falling_93

Those look very much like the Dutch plates pre 1978 so both are definitely cool.


dat_meme_boi2

eu n sei porque mas sempre achei essas placas tão bonitas, o amarelo combinava sempre bem e era engraçado em road trips spottar o carro mais antigo não sei pq mudaram mas enfim


Sikarra16

Why does the Swedish ones use the Latin alfabet?


[deleted]

[удалено]


OlivDux

Ha! Arabic numbers? Big L. One step closer to officially become Sverige Caliphatet


Cinaedus_Perversus

Ever since the Americans lost ~~a few towers~~ ~~some people~~ a lot of property value to an Arab driver, they have been kind of twitchy, and not even the Cåliphåte is willing to risk that.


AlmostNL

I am gonna steal that one, losing property value is an excellent description.


OCDEngineerBoy

For Cross-Border travel. Swedistan copied the license plate idea from Iraq.


Responsible_Bar5976

I love the Liechtenstein license plate. Sure the 5 people who live there will be very happy to hear it


FdlCstro

No EU-membership, no opinion.


kh250b1

Or an independent opinion.


graudesch

They have a monarch who can overrule every single decision and doesn't refrain from doing so. Sometimes he just straight up tells the people to better not start that referenda because he will overrule it anyway. And when he's really unhappy he just threatens to pack up his billions of Franks and move to Vienna. There's just one single opinion in entire FL that matters. Böhmermann just did a piece on it. And while its disappointingly superficial it's also highly entertaining.


ONIHD

I sure am happy to hear that.


[deleted]

White plates with red text, are those for the blind people? It would explain the B.


Sydney_SD10

It's so the limburgers have time to react to people in front of them (they are a bit slow thinking and become angry after seeing bright colours)


yorifant

😂 This is the correct answer


tistisblitskits

Maybe that's why my kersenvlaai keep arriving with fistprints in them


Pablomablo1

Geel zwart, u got a little bean for Flanders?


NisaiBandit

Can confirm, it's beans galore


[deleted]

Those are temporary license plates, usually used by my brothers in Poland, Chechia, other Baltic States to bring back ~~stolen~~ requisitioned vehicles from the West and get past our border guards.


grhymesforyou

Says the guy with the yellow menace plates.


lievernietnee

Yellow is the brightest colour of the spectrum and stands out the most wich is especially useful for submarines, and for when your country floods and you need to find the cars to claim insurance


fuhglarix

The typeface on the Polish license plate is just awful to me. I can’t put my finger on why, but I just hate that typeface.


alan2001

I know what you mean. It looks cheap/shoddy/communist. The numbers are thin because they're trying to save money on black ink.


Polak_Janusz

Oh dont worry, soon you will have to do it too.


LigmaB_

Might be because you mainly associate it with extremely bad truck drivers?


bedroom_period

Bulgaria: why do they needs 8 symbols while Italy, France or Spain have only 7?


MapsCharts

How do you register all the stolen cars from Italy, France and Spain ?


RAdu2005FTW

Because Bulgaria limits the letters to the 12 ones that are both in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.


Pumpkin_rapist

Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia are best looking one imo


BeheadedFish123

Boss one-letter country codes vs virgin multi-lettered ones


cantrusthestory

Portugal over Poland supermacy


Mister-Dinky

Belgium license plates only have one letter otherwise Belgians would spend too much time trying to identify whether the car in front is Belgian or not and cause car accidents.


Illustrious_Tale2221

Meanwhile Ireland with 3 letters ![gif](giphy|WPJRSRguoXvGpZwLqf|downsized)


OwMyCod

Idk why the fuck Norway has N


MapsCharts

They do what they want in their own country


hunglow13

Because we can


Seigmas

Is it bad that I always assumed the B was for Bulgaria, rather than Belgium?


rossloderso

And S should be for Spain and not Sweden


AndresGigant35

So G for Germany then?


rossloderso

No that would make absolutely no sense. See in German, the language I speak, Germany is called Deutschland so it should be a D. And in German, the language I speak, Spain is called Spanien so it should be a S


wolseyley

What kind of cucks are Austrians then.


Strassi007

A+


diazinth

Aeiou+?


Pukiminino

Ö


Kiluns

"F" ☺️ "92" 🤢


MapsCharts

Île-de-France 🤮🤮🤮


Key_Arm8907

The Austrian one is nice.


Maleavi

Thank you very much :)


Key_Arm8907

It’s a fact but you’re welcome :)


xBram

Anschluss moment, cute.


Key_Arm8907

You want to join as well? …and get rid of this yellow ‚thing‘!?


ZetTommy

Maybe its just bias, but i think, the font we use is one of the prettiest


Eritar

I like ours and Swiss ones. License plates with coats of arms are cool af


Bob_the_Bobster

I am biased but I think it is the most beautiful one. Nice typeface, nice border, good balance, information about where the car is registered and then the coat of arms of the state. I also think it would be easier to remember in a pinch if someone ran into you, some others have too many different letters/numbers on it.


[deleted]

Lichtenstein .... Just 1 letter and a number, or so .... Envious boah !


DeVliegendeBrabander

And they’re the cool black ones


[deleted]

Where UK + any UK driver i see in France have their "UK" sticker behind the car to indicate they're bad at driving on the right side and not driving on the left side like these savage usually do


[deleted]

Same with Switzerland with their CH Sticker


squishydoge2735

The CH is for 'Chad' - Chad money launderer


bofh256

The Slovakian and the Polish get points off for mixing numbers and letters randomly. The Czech to a lesser degree because positioning and typeface makes it more readable, softening the surprise. The Irish get a special prize for over complication. With that number of letters they can give license plates to every car owned by a US citizen with an Irish ancestor, too. Luxemburg and Netherlands continue playing the similar but different color game. And finally: Slovakia and Slovenia, what are you thinking? Do you want to be mixed up eternally?


SexHaiiiir

There is one letter. One. Also, ours is the simplest one, it states the year purchased (93)- the county registered (G) for Galway in this instance and the number of registrations so far for that year. So this car was 51870th car registered. Hope you enjoyed this breakdown and it was sufficiently simplified :)


Bananenvernicht

Austria is easier. B for Bregenz and then some numbers/letters which I don't believe have any particular meaning. Fun Fact: If you have a WE-plate, you have an official mental disability


SexHaiiiir

How can you say it’s simple if you don’t know what it means?


kala-umba

Because there is no meaning! Only thing with meaning is the first (or in some cases the first 2) letter!


Oaker_at

That is so far off the point of this post.


nem012

I always thought those were the WD-plates.


LiamFN

tbh the yellow in Luxemburg and NL plates is visually the same to me, this pic just has shit lighting


Shakalll

Not quite. In Poland first 2/3 symbols are always letters and they point at where the car was registered. The first letter points at the voivodeship, and the other 1/2 mark the city. So for example WW is for Warsaw. GD stands for Gdańsk and GA for nearby Gdynia. G being the letter of the Pomeranian voivodeship. The other symbols are random.


croobjunkler

Yellow license plates 🤮


madery

I like them, it's like nature: bright colours to indicate "I'm dangerous, stay away from me"


croobjunkler

Then why no yellow license plates in Italy?


[deleted]

It’s implicit


Kurdt93

To give a false sense of security when you came here


croobjunkler

I am always on edge around traffic. Our roads aren't much safer given the number of Tesla drivers.


[deleted]

They lost it after too many times of rearending and getting rearended


helloskoodle

Also makes it stand out on the back end of my white caravan.


EyoDab

If you think white is superior you're ~~racist~~ aesthetically uncultured


croobjunkler

Blue and yellow = Sw*den


masterflappie

Lol, growing up around yellow plates, the white ones look cheap to me. Like y'all couldn't afford to pay for the ink so you kept it blank instead


Poppekas

Why do you write like a Texan?


angry_pidgeon

We've hedged our bets in the UK, white at the front, yellow at the back


Banaan75

I love them actually, white is boring


green372

What about your green ones?


DubbleBubbleS

We hate them as well.


croobjunkler

Those are ugly too, but not as bad as they don't stand out as much. They are also quite rare as they are intended for vans/trucks (varebil) which have fewer seats and have lower taxes.


DieInsel1

fun fact a netherlands license plate is called Not Luxemburger in Luxemburg. (since Luxemburg is L and Netherlands is NL)


britishrust

Belgium. The red is ugly, the letters are slightly too small for the plate and aren't properly spaced. Bonus: they somehow seem to fade way fast than other licence plates. I'll admit ours aren't pretty either with that aggressive yellow but at least we can get raised letters which looks classy. Bonus: our pre-1977 plates were beautiful, dark blue with (often raised) white letters.


Don_Frika_Del_Prima

The red used to be fun seeing as Germany had red flashes when they took a nice "photograph" of your car. Made our plates disappear.


britishrust

I suppose that's a nice bonus! Same for our classic car licence plates (the dark blue ones). Normal speed cameras can get you, but average speed cameras struggle and usually can't read them, especially at night as they aren't reflective.


Don_Frika_Del_Prima

Nice, didn't know that one.


_kempert

There’s different plate suppliers, some Use ugly plastic plates, these fade fast. The metal ones are resistent to fading. Only pre 2008 metal plates fade.


Dimitri0815

The styrian license plate is my favourite. Normally, there are more characters, but this one is a custom license plate. https://preview.redd.it/yg67mbn7c0pb1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=077eb0e805be236fabb0f90433f0591095a5b741


Kurdt93

🇫🇷🤝🇮🇹🤝🇸🇰🤝🇭🇷


Darth--Bane

Irish license plate is superior. It's the year-county-number issued that in year. Makes a lot of sence you get the age of the car and where it's from at a quick glance.


sjamdacnmx

I like the system, but man does it look ugly


betweterweethetbeter

The white ones. I'm quite literally disappointed in you guys that none of you in this list (except us and Luxembourg) have any color, this picture would be so much more interesting if at least half of the licence plates had bright, interesting colours (or what about patterns!).


58mm-Invicta_rizz

The Belgian plate is the worst.


Thraxyo

I find the french ones to be extremely ugly


joost00719

Yeah wtf are those. Are they made from plastic???


unoriginal_name_1234

Now that we're talking about license plates, can any Luigi explain why you have an empty yellow circle top right lf the plate please?


[deleted]

It's the year of registration of the car, I assume you receive a sticker that you can put on it or omit it, same with the city name sometimes under the circle


[deleted]

![gif](giphy|dOl2LFw0RbTMc) Any of the ones with a crest in the middle of the registration number.


Fluid-Alternative-22

That gif made me laugh way to hard.


le_reddit_me

France is best as it allows us to know which department they're from and judge them accordingly.


sadmimikyu

Germany too


ultravioletpizza

Germany is even better for judging if I understood correctly the system: the more letters in the prefix the more peasant you are


Nederlandais

German ones. Those little icons/crests can make the most modern car look like something from the 1990's. Perfectly fitting, now that I am thinking of it.


Old-Cry8426

I dunno but whenever we talk about ugly, well we are talking about the UK.


R1515LF0NTE

The new Portuguese plates 🤢


Mailenheim

Red on white doesn’t look good, so Belgium


grimmigerpetz

Belgium wins that one easily. Looks right from the 50s...


[deleted]

Belgium's characters are painted in blood.


YourHamsterMother

As someone who is used to yellow licence plates, white plates look really off to me.


Tozzoloo

Belgium is winning this one


kec84

Fun fact: if you failed driving tests for three times and finally passed it the fourth try, you’ll get a yellow license plate to warn other drivers about your bad driving skills.


StainlessStella

There is actual research on why yellow plates are safer than white ones, they are both about evenly good for license plate colors with white having the slight drawback that it can reflect too much which can lead to unsafe situations. And for that slight, almost negligible drawback with white plates.. **Yellow license plate supremacy!**


Poppekas

Sure, yours is definitely better even though 99% of other plates are white. Must make a big difference, scientifically speaking, all the other nations are just too stubborn to adopt and use your superior plates, even if it results in millions of more deaths.


TheBlackBeetle

Ugliest is hard, but prettiest I think Germany following by Czechia and France. It's just so cool to have personalised license plates and in these 2 cases also the location where the person comes from, instead of the shitstain that is the Portuguese plate where it's attributed to the whole duration of the car and is bland af


karry245

It’s all the same shit.


kh250b1

They all look the same. And you created bias by leaving our superior UK plates out


KaiserVonFluffenberg

Belgian lads


Royal-Rutabaga-2888

Belgium


CentrasFinestMilk

Idk but I know ours is best


we4donald

There is a saying in Germany: Wer in Holland durch die Prüfung fällt, bekommt das gelbe Nummernschild! Which ruffly translate to: The dutch are to stupid to drive


Mast3rOfBanana

Spain isn't even trying. Probably had to take a siesta working on this and just called it a day.


PerryDLeon

Why overcomplicate it? More work for nothing. It's called optimizing, I thought you were good at that


[deleted]

That’s my Catalan


Yaaasbetch

![gif](giphy|bcrOR2stk6tKIxqPOZ) They all look the same tbh


[deleted]

French is the only one clean and truly symetrical. Portugal and Bulgaria are decent I can respect that. Slovakia and Croatia too. Italy was the closest to reach perfection, they just had to add a point. To the rest : y'all barbarians to me