Celica Forums General Discussion General Just bought a new number plate!

My car still ain't back from being repaired (some shit about having trouble sewing the airbag back into the seat), so I decided to cheer myself up and buy a personalised number plate.

You into Satan or something?

Nope. It will set the car off though. Make it stand out a bit.

that'll definitely set it off...

SATAN!!

uhhhhhhh

yea...

was thinking the exact same thing

it started to speak in a demonic tone of voice, flailing around like it's satan!

your weird

You should change those number's, to 777 !!!

or 667, the NEIGHBOR of the beast. hahah

666 red is satan mannnnn

hmmm, chill, its just a plate. I thought it was great... thats why I bought it. Problem is the cars known as a T Sport over here, but those in the know will understand that its also a GTS. A beast of a GTS!

Wow! I can't believe how much everyone's shaking their head at your plate chief!
Maybe it's just that many people don't take all that too seriously here in the UK, the country's going to hell at the moment anyway!!
Check this out. One of the most expensive personalised plates I have found for sale in the UK is..

SAT4N 100,000 and that's before VAT and DoT Tax!!

must be feckin mad to pay that much for a damn plate anyway!!

I am just toying with the idea of buying a plate..

K9 RYO for about 400

I have a Japanese Akita dog called Ryo so I thought it was quite fitting

Heh, if 666 offends you, how about these numbers

JE51 USX 3995

G10 DLY 3995

P5 ALM 11740

AP02 TLE 1695


I have to say, my favourite so far is:

DRA 60N 37000

There are a whole load of VVT registrations going cheap too,
eg R9 VVT 244

Burn bady burn, each to his own is what I always say.

x 420 GTS!!!!
take that!!!

or x 969 GTS is also cool

how about RUNVS, or imagine looking in your mirror and seeing this one reversed.. 3M TA3

3M TAE...
haha...to the filipino people...that's one long shiet...

uh... cool!

kinda creepy

E-CELICA

I think the most expensive plate was K1 NGS! I'm sure it went for almost 200,000.

K9 RYO is pretty good for 400 though. Looks like its worth a lot more, especially if you close the gap.

I had the 666 GTS plate for 499 including VAT and transfer. I wasn't even looking for a plate, it was just spur of the moment. God knows what it would be worth without the 'X' You could probably add another 10 grand.

lemme get this straight, the price is determined by what it says?

Yeah, or if it has a reference to something.

Example F355 GTS = 11,400
F271 GTS = 225

Its a big business over here

damn i would never pay that much

Isnt this the same guy that said he he was Turboed or something?

ditto. and i think we all know in which way

What the hell does that mean?

it just means it sets it off in a 'bad' way

so who determines how much a plate is worth, and why would KINGS be so much? I don't get it...

Its determined by how much somebody is willing to pay for them. The plates are auctioned off by the DVLA (government basically who issue all number plates). If a plate says something, like K1 NGS or S4 TAN, then for somebody to bid over a 100,000 is not uncommon. They're only worth what people are willing to pay. But if you're loaded and you've got a very expensive car, you're going to want an expensive looking number plate to finish it off. Its sort of like a status symbol too. Everyone in the UK will know what a number plates like S4 TAN will be worth, and if you own it, then people are going to know that you're wealthy and successful.

so what does K1 NGS stand for?

What if I wanted my plate to read:

D1KK H3DD?

Would that be given away free of charge because of no demand?

Numberplates in the UK generally have to conform to a certain layout. The old style plates are as follows

X123 ABC
^The X letter refers to the year in which the car was registered, followed by a random 3 numbers, a space, then a random 3 letters. This has now just been changed to a new system, as follows

AB01 ABC
^^ The 01 refers to the year in which the car was registered (2001 in this case) the prefix letters are supposed to refer to where the car was registered, followed by a random 3 letters.

So you can now see why it is quite rare to get a plate in the UK that actually looks like it says anything at all, and why some people will pay large amounts of cash for them!!
You can't just pick any old plate, you have to find one that looks similar to what you would like, which is why the more popular ones end up costing a hell of a lot. On the other hand, these "Prestige Plates" costing hundreds of thousands tend to remain up for sale for years, having been priced out of the realms of reality..

Closest I can find is:
D1 CKS 60000
or you can have:
60 CK 9745

but my favourite is
BA51 ARD 17495

"KINGS"

as in "The King"

maybe someone who's a royalist, or maybe just an Elvis fan

Did you not see the connection between K1 NGS and 'KINGS'? HA HA HA!

Well of course I saw the connection, I didn't ride the short bus to school, I just don't understand why anyone would want it? I manage a Restaurant, KINGS Family Restaurant, so it made me wonder being that I hear "Kings" all the time. But I don't understand why that would be a desirable plate in the UK. I wouldn't want it if you paid me to have it.

Oh come on you weiners.. 666 is fucking awsome! \m/

Good plate man, that's the thing I love about the Celica and this community specifically is the number of people that are alternative in various degrees. The dark side owns.

^^^mwahahahaha yes, the dark does own indeed

oh, btw, where have you been? you've been gone from ecelica for a while, Vampyre.

If you owned a restaurant in the UK called 'KINGS' then you'd probably sell your left arm to get hold of that number plate.

I saw a Mercedes Smart car covered in opticians advertisements the other day and the number plate was 1 EYE.

Its just a talking point I suppose.

I want a font like this, but a friend of mine had his plate in this font and he got pulled by the cops and fined 200. They say that one in every 10 plates is illegal though, so I could get away with it.