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That is the most infuriating license plate I have ever seen.

• 1MachineElf 5y ago
  I'm more irked by the asymmetric "FUELLED BY Glenfiddich" text at the top.
• smcl 5y ago
  Wait what am I missing, why is it infuriating? "WG51GAS" - I guess: - WG = "William Grant" - 51 = no idea - GAS = ... gas :)
  • tialaramex 5y ago
    When a vehicle is registered for use in the UK it is assigned a plate number, you can buy a different ("vanity") plate and do paperwork to change it, within limits, but most vehicles will keep this plate for their lifespan. The two digits (51 here) signify the six month period in which registration took place. So 51 means between the start of September 2001 and the end of February 2002. The two digits are the last two digits of the year (so 01 = 2001, 02 = 2002, etc) and then 50 is added to indicate the second half of the year, thus a brand new car bought next month here would have a "71" plate, the second half of 2021. I presume the rationale is that nobody will be confused by a 2055 car and think it's from 2005, since both technology and aesthetic preferences change enormously in such a period of time. Vanity plates aren't supposed to be fitted to vehicles that logically could not have been registered with that plate, making it appear newer than it is, but it would be permitted to fit these 2001 plates to a vehicle built in say 2019.
    • smcl 5y ago
      I know about how UK car registration numbers work, i just couldn’t figure why GP was infuriated by this vanity one. So I guess it’s just the confusion that they chose a vanity plate that happens to have two digits in the year position that would normally imply the vehicle is ~20 years old. Hmm
  • ThePadawan 5y ago
    It definitely looks like they intended to get the plate that at first glance would read "WSGI GAS" ("whiskey gas"), but failed to do so, so had to settle for "WGSI GAS".