Odd car registration

[L00b 441]

Saw a silver Skoda Yeti (I think it was) this morning, with a reg YT60 X**, getting off at J34 M'hall.

 

It struck me as quite odd, since I understand car regs are 0 or 5 then the year (06, 56, 07, 57, etc.) so is this the new style for 2010 cars registered in the 'second half' of the year (10, 60, 11, 61, etc.)

[Number Six 10]

60 is Sept 2010 registered.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom#Current_system

[Uptowngirl 10]

I followed a mini into the supermarket car park a couple of days ago. Registration 3C. The number plate must be worth 5 times the car that is wearing it.

[L00b 441]

So it is, thx posters for the clarifications

[HeadingNorth 11]

I've asked quite a few people if they have seen a 60 plate car yet. Almost nobody has realised that the logical progression means new cars will now have a 60 registration. 08,58,09,59,10,60,11,61...

[Cynic 10]

The new scheme for car registrations started in 2001 so if they stuck to using 5 for the September releases they would have clashed as from next year. That is why it is 6.

[TTM13 10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom#Age_identifiers

[Frazer1974 16]

The 11 plates will have lots of potential for rude words...

[Dogs Of War 10]

There was a lorry in Deepcar filling station this morning with a YT60 reg number . its the first one ive seen .

[truman 10]

I remember when some people used to pick their new cars up at one minute past midnight on the changeover day...does that still happen~?

[Plain Talker 11]

I remember when some people used to pick their new cars up at one minute past midnight on the changeover day...does that still happen~?

 

It certainly happened a lot when there was only the one registration change per year.

 

My sister and I used to have a competition, every year, on changeover morning, who would be the first to spot a vehicle with the new plates.

 

It's not quite as "prestigious" I think, and such a "biggie", now that there's the two changeovers a year.

[esme 10]

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