RE: Personalised plates: Tell Me I'm Wrong
Discussion
Jaguar steve said:
Maybe - but I'm not rich and I drive an comfy quiet old barge because I honestly can't be arsed with being clever / motivated / hard working / dedicated or succesfull enough in life to be able to even contemplate driving a comfy quiet new one. Prefer to leave that - and numberplates that cost more than my annual income - to people who feel they have something to prove to everybody else 
And your comfy quiet old barge is still a better car than a large amount of people can afford, are you driving it because you feel you have something to prove to them?In the eight years I've been around PH you are undoubtedly the weirdest poster on here.
Jaguar steve said:
Maybe - but I'm not rich and I drive an comfy quiet old barge because I honestly can't be arsed with being clever / motivated / hard working / dedicated or succesfull enough in life to be able to even contemplate driving a comfy quiet new one. Prefer to leave that - and numberplates that cost more than my annual income - to people who feel they have something to prove to everybody else
So are you going to be a stowaway on the charter of Croatia?Grandfondo said:
dandare said:
Grandfondo said:
A bit like people driving old barges trying to give the impression of wealth because in the old days only the rich could afford big cars! 
Not really. It's more like someone driving old barges with private plates so that nobody knows the car is cheap(er).In answer to your question though, they can do what they like, and aren't pretending to be something they are not, I suppose.
It doesn't make me hate or love them, but it's good for the economy, so I'm happy they're spending their (hopefully) hard-earned cash.
br d said:
Jaguar steve said:
Maybe - but I'm not rich and I drive an comfy quiet old barge because I honestly can't be arsed with being clever / motivated / hard working / dedicated or succesfull enough in life to be able to even contemplate driving a comfy quiet new one. Prefer to leave that - and numberplates that cost more than my annual income - to people who feel they have something to prove to everybody else
And your comfy quiet old barge is still a better car than a large amount of people can afford, are you driving it because you feel you have something to prove to them?In the eight years I've been around PH you are undoubtedly the weirdest poster on here.
My barge is 13 years old - it's an old Jag worth maybe 2 grand. Spending that much on a car is hardly a massive demonstration of wealth so I doubt many people would be impressed with that.
Plenty of people are prepared to spend significantly more than two grand on both cars and numberplates for hundreds of different reasons 'tho, including impressing the neighbours. I don't because I have nothing to prove to anybody and don't worry about what other people think about what I own or choose to do. Once you give that mindset up you have the freedom to own and do whatever you really want rather than half killing yourself competing in the frantic, I've got bigger status symbol and more money than you, game along with everbody else.
Anyway... lets get back on topic.
J4CKO said:
We have a neighbour who, when we splurges on a new car, it wears its current, brand new, normal plate for almost a year, then the private one appears.
I'm going to put my plate on my car when the new reg comes out in September, at the moment I want everybody to know I've got a brand new BMW.Jaguar steve said:
The sheer number of posts on this thread, and the others here on PH regarding good/bad numberplates indicates just how important having the right registration number is to an awfull - you'll take that the way I mean of course - lot of people.
I checked this morning going in the office. A PP in Belgium has a fixed price of some 550€.
I assume I have seen about a 1.000 cars today and did not encounter one with a vanity plate.
So the vanity tax in Be is a fail. Damned more tax for me...
LuS1fer said:
Dogtown said:
Nothing illustrates better the limits of a person's aspirations than a personalised plate. Whether you like it or not its shouts " look at me, I've made it ".
Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Crude, maybe, but amusing in what way?Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
LuS1fer said:
Dogtown said:
Nothing illustrates better the limits of a person's aspirations than a personalised plate. Whether you like it or not its shouts " look at me, I've made it ".
Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Crude, maybe, but amusing in what way?Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Then the jokes gone. You are left with the word penis on your car and the joke is on you!
mollytherocker said:
LuS1fer said:
Dogtown said:
Nothing illustrates better the limits of a person's aspirations than a personalised plate. Whether you like it or not its shouts " look at me, I've made it ".
Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Crude, maybe, but amusing in what way?Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Then the jokes gone. You are left with the word penis on your car and the joke is on you!
Dogtown said:
mollytherocker said:
LuS1fer said:
Dogtown said:
Nothing illustrates better the limits of a person's aspirations than a personalised plate. Whether you like it or not its shouts " look at me, I've made it ".
Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Crude, maybe, but amusing in what way?Except, perhaps, PEN 1S which is genuinely amusing.
Then the jokes gone. You are left with the word penis on your car and the joke is on you!
Why not just buy a s
t car and drive around in that and give the money saved to charity?
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