RHD German Cars?

[JKay]

Saw a Seal Grey 996 C2 today on German plates (not German Style but actual German Plate) but it was RHD.

I thought they were all LHD? If not then would it be cheaper to get a RHD german 911 and bring it into the UK?

[phelix]

That must be quite a rarity; perhaps a Brit living in Germany for a while?

[Diesel130]

Probably just a UK chap who's put on some false German plates to avoid paying the road fund licence, speeding fines and congestion charge !!!!

[clinchy]

Armed forces Purchase ?

[JKay]

Diesel130 said:

Probably just a UK chap who's put on some false German plates to avoid paying the road fund licence, speeding fines and congestion charge !!!!

Thats partly what I was thinking, and thats what made it catch my eye. It certainly is a first for me.

BY the way does anyone know what the German number format means, ie which bit says where its from etc?

[melv]

First letter or two say where it is from and if you can read the top circle of the two splitting the letter(s) from the numbers will have town name and crest in full. The other small circle shows the tax due date.

What letters were they?

S = Stuttgart BTW!!

and N =Nuernberg

FU = Furth and yes, I have seen a FU -CK ***

[JKay]

melv said:

What letters were they?

I remember it was something like S GO then some numbers, does that make sense?

[clorenzen]

S GO followed by a number is actually a Stuttgart press car with "GO" standing for Global Office.

[JKay]

Well thats weird. Cant imagine that being an actual press car.

Prob on show plates, and no doubt not its real plates

[mikeo996]

We live in a few miles of the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon and there are often lhd, but UK registered Astons on the roads round here - presumably the factory does testing in Aston's case on its most common configuration.

Edited by mikeo996 on Sunday 23 September 14:22

[TheDeadPrussian]

RHD, UK sourced, Armed Forces purchased cars are all on UK registration plates

[Charlie360]

perhaps a personal import that hasn't been registered in the UK yet?!