Funny German car registrations

[Derek 1,027]

Saw this today. I wonder if it's a random assignment or if he's representin' his/her favourite retro computer

[rubinho 15]

I knew somebody from Baden-Baden who had BAD-GT 500 on his black Shelby Mustang GT500; v.v.cool!

 

EDIT: I need to get a car registered in Rosenheim. Then I can get RO-B XXXX

 

How do you go about getting a customised plate in DE?

[Guest]

wanted M AN 8008 (manboob) when we lived in Munich but it was already gone.

now got a DAH number plate not much you can do with that.

[MrNosey 5,328]

 

How do you go about getting a customised plate in DE?

 

At the Zulassungsstelle when you register the car (or reserve one first on their website).

 

The M prefix (your area) is fixed but you can choose 1 or 2 letters after and the numbers (as long as the combo is not already used, of course).

 

So you could have M-AN 8008, M-AD 1, M-Y 911, M-R 69,....

[MrNosey 5,328]

 

wanted M AN 8008 (manboob) when we lived in Munich but it was already gone.

now got a DAH number plate not much you can do with that.

 

DAH-L 14 ?

[Thelonious Monk 1,582]

all the cars/trucks of the Augustiner brewery start with

 

MAU XXXX

 

funny one for our dutch friends:

 

MOF XXXX

 

(mof is a slightly insulting name used for Germans since world war 2 in Holland)

[Derek 1,027]

 

all the cars/trucks of the Augustiner brewery start with

 

MAU XXXX

 

Is Mau another word for bier?

[Allershausen 6,414]

 

I need to get a car registered in Rosenheim. Then I can get RO-B XXXX

 

There was a Porsche 911 where I used to work that had the number: RO-DS 911. I can only assume his name was Roderick or Rodney or something similar.

[Allershausen 6,414]

 

Is Mau another word for bier?

 

M-AUGUSTINER.

[Bigfoot 743]

 

funny one for our dutch friends:

 

MOF XXXX

 

(mof is a slightly insulting name used for Germans since world war 2 in Holland)

 

Haha, yeah, you wouldn't want to drive a vehicle with MOF 4045 in Holland I guess ....

[Allershausen 6,414]

It's not amusing or anything but if you see a BMW with the numberplate M-xx46xx or M-xx47xx it means that the car doesn't actually belong to the driver, it's either a BMW company car or company lease car.

[Mapleleafdude 4,292]

Can't get enough of that wonderful...

 

 

Seen in Duisburg Tuesday. :)

[Irish Lassie 3,007]

My husband's uncle is a doctor of some sorts (acedemic) and as he got in title in 1988, so he chose to put DR 88 after the town prefix (X - DR 88)

 

On day he was parking his car and there was an NPD demonstration nearby, as he got out of the car a group of Neo-nazis came over to him and told him not to worry about his car, they'd look after it because "family" stick together, they thought "DR 88" stood for "Deutsches Reich 88" he thought it would be wiser not to argue ;)

[Harders 22]

Allershausen- just to confuse you the 46 ones are getting a bit old and now don't always belong to who you think they do in the Munich area! One of my neighbours has got one and he's not got any BMW connection. And the boyfriend has got a company car but the numbers start with a 2. How about that? It's Germany- there must be some kind of system behind that but I haven't worked it out yet...

[Hans Maulwurf 114]

Police fail:

[CopyWriter 1,040]

I had to turn around and chase down a cop car the other day because I just caught the plate out of the corner of my eye and thought it was WI MP xxxx. I just had to have a picture of that!

 

Turns out it was WI HP xxxx and the HP stands for Hessische Polizei.

[luvlein 113]

 

On day he was parking his car and there was an NPD demonstration nearby, as he got out of the car a group of Neo-nazis came over to him and told him not to worry about his car, they'd look after it because "family" stick together, they thought "DR 88" stood for "Deutsches Reich 88" he thought it would be wiser not to argue

 

It is worse, as "88" is frequently used as nazi code for "Heil Hitler", with H being the 8th letter in the alphabet and such nonsense.

[PLS 914]

There will be more than likely several retired letters coming back in this region soon. Not sure what we will get when it is possible, but we will switch to WAT if possible. WAT wird wahrscheinlich

[camlough 1,859]

Good heavens! I remember the outcry when it was abolished :blink:

[onemark 787]

@ copywriter:

 

Are you sure that that car was a police car? I live in Hessen (County of Darmstadt-Dieburg, or "DA", & the cop cars round here have "WI-XXXXX".

 

I suspect that the owner of the car you saw may have been from the Bergstrasse County, whose county seat is Heppenheim (HP).

 

PS: Round here I have seen at least one car with DA-MN-XXX. And then there's DA-CH-XXX, DA-X-xxx (works at the Frankfurt stock exchange). You get the idea.