Funny German car registrations

[PLS 914]

 

Good heavens! I remember the outcry when it was abolished

 

Well, there is no reason to prevent it anymore. Before it was an problem with administration to have more than one in a city or district so that became the letter from the name of the city or district. With the electronic records, it doesn't make a difference if it is one or more. We still have our own area code and station names are the same as before the incorporation. It would be a way to make money because a lot of people here and in the neighbouring towns would want a new licence plate. You can still have the retired ones anyway if the car had it before the letters were retired.

[katheliz 17,879]

We lived in Rosenheim and our plates began RO-TZ, so we called it the Rotzmobile.

[dairiesman 16]

I've seen a few cars from Duisburg with DU-MP; DU-SK; DU-KE: Still waiting to find a DU-DE or DU-6

[Meatman 382]

I went with the pre-printed plates that come without specialization. Landkreis Ravensburg is RV. I am not witty enough to come up with anything RV-xxxxxxxxx...etc

[El Jeffo 42,134]

 

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

 

Get WAT-NU 1 while it's hot!

 

 

I went with the pre-printed plates that come without specialization. Landkreis Ravensburg is RV. I am not witty enough to come up with anything RV-xxxxxxxxx...etc

 

The Urban Assault Vehicle from Stripes was the EM 50. Just an idea.

[Derek 1,027]

I saw the most [un]creative and [un]imaginative plate yesterday on a Lexus. The car was A LS 430 the plate was "A:LS 430". I bet he couldn't believe his luck when he found that was available.

[Lavender Rain 7,859]

I've seen this one.

 

[Guest]

German license plates explained

[Hans Maulwurf 114]

 

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".

lol I want a Wixx plate too

[Hans Maulwurf 114]

If you see a fat Audi RS6, RS8 or something similar with the combination M-DM-XX or M-RM-XX it belongs to the FC Bayern München car pool.

 

DM (Deutscher Meister) in a year when they are reigning champions

RM (Rekordmeister) when they are not

[The Magster 682]

 

Police fail:

 

BWAHAHAHAHA!!! ACAB is spray-painted all over the place here...

 

(For those not in the know: ACAB stands for All Cops Are Bastards)

[CopyWriter 1,040]

 

@ 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.

 

All cop cars in Hessen are registered in Wiesbaden, so the first two are WI, the second two are HP, and then four numbers. HP is also restricted for official use, but I'm not sure if that's just for Wiesbaden, all of Hessen, or all of Germany. I'm not sure how new the HP thing is, or if every car has it, but that is the most common pattern.

[marc138 72]

I always liked the plate on the green Ford Taunus (Cortina) in the German cult comedy (yes, comedy!) film "Bang Boom Bang". Belonged to a stoner, the plate read "DO-PE 69". That plate alone would be a good reason to move to Dortmund.

[yourkeau 7,721]

 

BWAHAHAHAHA!!! ACAB is spray-painted all over the place here...

 

(For those not in the know: ACAB stands for All Cops Are Bastards)

 

But that photo is unfortunately fake. Here is the original:

http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Half-ein-Gefaengniswaerter-beim-Ausbruch-id6934246.html

[Journeyman 18]

A former neighbor drove a rusty Opel Omega with "ANA-L 69". Every time I saw this car I wondered how this can go.

[Loewenherz 316]

My old love, with numberplate spelling my initials (here in the super rich town of Watten - home to the Swarovsky crystal factory)

Sadly that car is no longer among us

 

[DLBChem 15]

Living in Frankfurt, we chose ME 2517 to go on the tag. The ME was the only thing available with our birth dates (25 and 17). Didn't think about it until we picked up the car and read the entire license plate : F-ME 2517. Best not to drive in the red-light district....

[bobD 730]

Anyone ever played the numberplate game? Good for kids on a long journey, but it can last for days/weeks/months...

 

You simply count from 1 to however high you can go, but based on seeing a car numberplate with that number, so you start the game when you see a X-XX-1, then, 2, 3 etc. No using a 1 from X-XX-123, it must be the actual number. The game is based on trust so no cheating.

 

I used to play it in London when I lived there and it adds another dimension to walking around town or driving on the motorway.

 

enjoy :)

[toko 475]

DO-ME 69

 

K-KK 666

[jennyhoehr 106]

In Siegburg I once saw a SU-CK 1. Wish I'd taken a photo now.