***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** - Page 2

cawimmer430 · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by NarutoRamen

Nice car...crap parking job. In india every license plate startes with the 2 letters that represent the state they are from. ex. DL for Delhi, HR for Haryana, UP for Utter Pradesh, etc... the rest of the numbers? I have no idea LOL

Too bad in the US we have nothing of the sort. In California most of the cars just have 7 alphanumeric digits while in states like Washington it's 3 alphanumeric digits then dash "-" and then another 3 alphanumeric digits...ex 747-253.

Have you been to England? I never understood their license plate system.

Two people who live in London for example have this and this license plate: XFG783 and DER230. Makes no sense to me.

cawimmer430 · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Giannis

Well, the major of Patra (my city) drives a Volvo S60, but he has it in an awful light green exterior colour. Other than that, same trim level, interior and rims with mine

Now I need to ask. Did he finance this out of his own pocket or with tax payers money?

cawimmer430 · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 04:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Mirage77

You guys won't want to know how much we pay for premium plates. Number plates with single digits (especially with the number 1) can go for US60k or more. Yes it isn't a typo.

That's why people can do business selling plates... And no, we can't choose our alphabets nor numbers.

As for us, well Chris is right, 8 is a lucky number. My dad has 9918 and 718 for his cars.

We got them cheap though, just about US450...

Our Mayor (Prime Minister, we call him that here) drives a conspicuous S350... Though I'm not quite sure if he has others for non-official events.

License plates are expensive in Singapore!

The solution? Just don't get one.

James, I believe the Chinese and Japanese view the number "4" as bad luck, is this true?

MikeJ · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cawimmer430

Have you been to England? I never understood their license plate system.

Two people who live in London for example have this and this license plate: XFG783 and DER230. Makes no sense to me.

I think the British have a system where you can tell when the car was registered instead of where - unless you have a personalized plate that is.

Here in Finland, we used to have a system where the first letter on the plate would tell which province the car was registered in, but it was deemed unnecessary and since the early 1990's the plates are just random letters and numbers (typically 3 letters - 3 numbers).

Giannis · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Christian

Now I need to ask. Did he finance this out of his own pocket or with tax payers money?

Since we live in Greece, it was payed by tax money

Actually i am sure, because it was passed to the next major a month ago.

PS. the previous car was a Lancia Kappa

Mr. M · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by cawimmer430

License plates are expensive in Singapore!

The solution? Just don't get one.

James, I believe the Chinese and Japanese view the number "4" as bad luck, is this true?

Yes, the number 4 is bad luck as it sounds like "death" in Cantonese as well as in Mandarin. Also, having X as the last alphabet of the number plate is also bad luck, as it kinda means reversing your fortunes. Our last alphabet is X but we don't really care.

MikeJ · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Mirage77

Also, having X as the last alphabet of the number plate is also bad luck, as it kinda means reversing your fortunes.

So having a plate like this would be bad luck then?

Mr. M · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeJ

So having a plate like this would be bad luck then?

No, that's okay. In that case having an X behind the 1 is bad luck.

cawimmer430 · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Giannis

Since we live in Greece, it was payed by tax money

Actually i am sure, because it was passed to the next major a month ago.

PS. the previous car was a Lancia Kappa

He's got good taste. Lancia Kappa's are gorgeous!

I don't think I'd trade that in for a Volvo, even though the Volvo will probably be more reliable!

cawimmer430 · **Re: ***The Mayor of Mühldorf drives an...*** -** 02-15-2007, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeJ

So having a plate like this would be bad luck then?