'12' Plates.

[JayTee94]

uuf361 said:

Just one so far, Hyundai i10.....

What a spot!

[wiliferus]

520d in corporate grey

[Garett]

Volkswagen Up! On the M60 this morning, also the first Up! I've seen in the flesh they're nothing special. Please can it not use the exclamation mark, it really doesn't warrant one.

[DB89]

A Fiesta, a truck and a Golf GTD. VW12 GTD which i think was rather good.

[versus]

Saw a VW Passat Bluemotion in Sainsburys car park with 12 on it. Didn't really catch my attention at all.

[Zwolf]

Deva Link said:

How strange. Does the date marker mean that little to the industry that leasing companies don't care about the having the later one?

Pretty much. Different leasing companies vary of course, but most stipulate that the car must be registered on the later plate if it's within 3 days of new registration, otherwise do as you please.

Plates can be allocated back and forth - prior to first registration and licencing only. Once it's registered, that's it - barring some very rare and exceptional conditions where a new vehicle can be "de-registered", used to be a limit of 14 days for that.

[daydotz]

Fiesta metal

[Trefy5]

VW Transporter - dark grey

E-class Coupe - black

[FunBusMk2]

versus said:

Saw a VW Passat Bluemotion in Sainsburys car park with 12 on it. Didn't really catch my attention at all.

Well it did, you've posted it here.

[versus]

FunBusMk2 said:

Well it did, you've posted it here.

No it only did because of this thread so I kept it in mind. Otherwise it didn't look like a new car at all with that plate on.

[kamilb1998]

Saw my first '12' plate today - a white Audi Q5.

[steedy27]

Saw brand new '12' Black 1M in Melksham, Wiltshire Yesterday. It pulled away very quickly

[Mouse1903]

I saw a Red Audi A1 yesterday, nothing else yet

[NHK244V]

spotted a brolen down insignia today on a 12 plate
to be fair i think the stop/start was giving him greif ??

[Allblackdup]

Spotted a black Nurburgring 12 plate Corsa parked up near City Hall in Cardiff today. Nice looking car but after it appeared on Top Gear recently the first thing i thought of was how much it must have cost!!

[JayTee94]

Just spotted a nice 12 plate Kia Sportage in Chesterfield.

It was in a lovely orange. Am I lucky, or are most 12 plates now in decent spec with nice colours?

IIRC most 11 platers were basic Ford Fiesta (or similar)...

[StottyZr]

I saw a 12 plate BMW, I presumed it was a 5 series until I got behind it at a give way. The new 3series are really big

[uuf361]

This morning, a mahoosive Mercedes R Class, doing 30 in an NSL down some country lanes where you can still easily do 50

[Deva Link]

uuf361 said:

This morning, a mahoosive Mercedes R Class, doing 30 in an NSL down some country lanes where you can still easily do 50

Are they clear, wide and straight? People do 50 (and more) in the narrow Cheshire back-lanes, but it causes issues when they meet like minded people coming the other way!


I still haven't seen a 12 plate yet. Around our way there's usually a smattering of new cars from people who still change every 3 years regardless, but nothing this year.

[vixen1700]

Last night outside my house was a funny angular white Honda, not sure of the model.

Edited to add, it was a CR-Z

Edited by vixen1700 on Saturday 3rd March 12:13