Yep time really does go by VERY quickly. Ya hear that all your life and think only old ppl say it, and then all of a sudden ya look back at the past 25 years and wonder where did go??!!!
LOL, don't tell the SNP or they'll be fighting in the streets to get that one. Maybe that's how they got away with it, it was Nicola Sturgeon's car. Couple along my step dad's road are FN--SXY and FN--HSY which usually makes me smile, especially since they live so close and nope, they're not personalised plates though maybe should be, to stick on that pink horse box Clarkson reckons Jordan owns. Used to be another not far from the same spot which I always thought was a shame being 1 number out or Tolkien nerds would have paid a fortune for it. It read EA14 ERU but if it'd been 15 then it would have made perfect Tolkien relevant sense, and yeah, aforementioned nerd here though not one who'd buy a personalised number plate. Ever. Glancing at number plates as you pass them to see if they're funny though, passes the time on boring journeys.
Something I thought was ridiculous is they banned the entire SN07 run, replacing it with TN07, because SNOT is apparently offensive. But they allowed xx69 plates for the second half of 2019. I'm sure you've all seen the BJ69KFC Fiat 500 on social media for example.
They didn't exactly 'replace' SN07 with TN07, but had to 'invent' these 'T' series marks (including TF TJ TN) as Edinburgh was experiencing a shortage of marks due to increased vehicle registrations that period and witholding SN didn't exactly help. These T marks have not been issued again since 07. Newcastle have witheld NA21 and NA71.
This is funny and interesting because a few years ago the Nova Scotia (Canada) government took a man's personalized license plate away because it was GRABHER. Which was his family name, Lorne Grabher. It was all over the news in the Maritimes and he took it to court and lost. He then appealed and lost that, and then tried to take it to the Supreme Court of Canada and they refused to hear it and so he couldn't go any further. The province was roughly divided in half with the support or opposition to his case. It was a huge thing here.
The most ironic vanity plate I've ever seen is VAN17Y. It belongs to a very modest lady I know from my orchestra, who drives a 10 year old Nissan Note. But the best part is how she acquired it: she imported a car into the UK from Ireland back in the 80s, and the DVLA just assigned that plate to her car! I bet it would go for a bomb at auction.
@@am_pm.17 You can reassign a personalised registration, called a "private plate" in the UK, to another car so if you buy a car with a private plate, you can transfer the registration to another vehicle. Doing this, the previous bearer will receive its original registration back or the next available one. You can also retain a private plate in case you don't have a vehicle to transfer it to or are saving it for a later purchase. Doing that, you get a certificate proving your ownership for when you want to use it again. In the situation of the 80s -> '10 Nissan Note, the woman in question could have either been transferring the registration between every car she's owned over the years or she retained it over those years. As to why the DVLA assigned a private plate imported to the UK from Ireland without some outside influence, I have no idea.
So....wallker? Cause thats what a 1 is used for I know i know...wanker...but it goes back to what they are saying here. It just doesnt spell wanker. In the US we are given far more freedom when it comes to those personalised license plates
@@ConnorNotyerbidness yeah in Germany we have even less freedom, it's City of registration (HH for hamburg for example) two letters Wich we can choose, and 1-4 numbers Wich we can choose... Sometimes, in some cities you have to have 4 numbers.
I'd put an n instead of the 11 would be amusing not for Peter or saying he is one but get a plate saying that it would I imagine make the people in the car behind laugh aswell maybe
@@Hewitt_himself AR in reference to AR 15 does NOT stand for Assault Rifle, it stands for Armalite Rifle, the name of the compaby that made it. Anyone who says otherwise doesnt know what they are talking about
@@youraveragereloader649 it literally means armalite rifle. They just also started calling it the armalite ar 15. They continued to use AR as it was the "brand". Especially since armalite sold the rights to colt anyway and ceased to exist in the 80s AR does still stand for Armalite Rifle, even for the shotgun
Generally speaking, comedy does not age well. Most jokes are for a particular time and culture. I read a review about a Japanese man doing stand up comedy. The Japanese people in the audience laughed uproariously, but his jokes were not the least bit funny to English speakers. He made a joke about a man who dropped a piece of tofu. He picked it up, "And he ate the tofu!" All the Japanese people laughed at this, but it's not funny at all to English speakers.
@@untaggedguru5602 technically no ones losing money in the series. Clarkson making up loses with amazon money and amzon already in profit from the viewers
Here in Colombia we can't really personalize our plates. Three letters, three numbers, your town name, go. However, it's got some amusing moments, like a Mercedes C-Class with the Bogotá plate BMW-666. Or the most amusing of all, some Police SUVs with the following plate sequence from a little town called Timaná: GAY-001 GAY-002 GAY-003 And so forth. They might be armoured, but they always get a chuckle when their drivers appear in the cities.
Hungarian plates are the same, although you can bay ABCD-12 or ABCDE-1 format for extra money. The best one to this day is NOT-911 on a brand new ambulance. The emergency phone number is indeed not 911, but rather 112.
In Germany the first one, two or three letters are the town or municipality your car is registered to, then there's two letters and three or four numbers. Everyone gets to choose the letters and numbers on their numberplate, but of course you're somewhat limited by the first two letters. Doesn't mean that people won't get creative, I think the best one I saw was AU TO 9001, so basically car over 9000.
@@mikeblatzheim2797 best one I remember was *NEW BH¹ ###* Also a popular one in my Neighboring town is *FÜ CK ###,* unfortunately I haven't yet spotted the one legend that got the license plate saying *FÜ CK 455* yet. Must be somewhere out there! ¹(BH is the german acronym for bra. The full word is "Busenhalter" , which literally translates to "titty holder" XD)
In Poland it works similar to Germany. But even if there are no personalized number plates we still get creative for example plates starting with EPA - Elvis Presley Alive or EBR - Ewidentny BRak mózgu (eng. Evident Lack of Brain).
The standard numberplate in UK follows this format: AB12 CDE - the first two letters (AB) is the regional indicator, the number (12) represents the model year, for example 12 is a 2012 car. The last 3 letters are randomised
My friend Verity has V33 VER. It caught my eye because that’s Max Verstappen’s racing number and his shortened name in the position graphics. It’s obviously not a rude one but I’m staggered she could afford it if the prices are the same now as they were when this was made.
There’s an old Canadian TV show called Bumper Stumpers where contestants have to guess the personalized (vanity) plates. It’s hard to watch from a production perspective but fun for people who like this kind of stuff. It’s on YT.
I wish top gear died with clarkson and the trio the chemistry between themselves is just iconic they love and hate each other kinda like brothers to each other and they both will lookout for each other in realy bad situations
Most hilarious I've seen was one that was KNK. But when it drove by I thought it was KKK. For miles until I caught back up with the car I was just incredulous that someone was even allowed to have that.
Steve Parrish was at The Goodwood Festival of Speed on Sunday and he had printed on his bike's windshield 'MORE THAN 2 STROKES AND YOU'RE A W@NKER!' (I replaced the @ myself just in case lol)
@@mutilator97 It may seem stupid, but remember... The Government basically sells you those Plates with the ability to rearrange the numbers, and then fine you for having rearranged the plate. If they're willing to do that to something so minor, what else have they done, and to something more major?
you missed the bit in one of the specials where jeremy points out how everyone else has anagrams on their plates, and it cuts to a shot of his car with a plate like "O55 CNUT" or something like that
Do you mean on British Sport Cars challenge??? I remember where Hammond in Elan had LIAR on his plate while James May in TVR had GOSH/GHOST in his plate and Jeremy had CTUN in his Jensen Healey (sorry if I am wrong on last car Brand)
Funny enough the way these plates work in my state is they are more expensive by year to register than just the first like a rational person would think. But I know someone that literally orders new plates every year instead of just renewing the plates because "it cost me the same so they can make me new ones"
There was also one from the Lorry challenge: "I think he's going to be quite cross with us." "No(!)" "Have you seen what he's done to the number plate?" "Oh for God's sake!" "Personal plates, he is such a pikey," They were wheeling Hammond's Opel Kadett which had the registration number "OLI V3R"
They're absolutely right about the personalised plates. They're ridiculously stupid. I had to warn my parents years back when I got a car to not even think about it. The next year my Dad bought my mother one. I dodged a bullet there.
🇭🇺 Here in Hungary, custom license plates are fully legal, the format is "XXXXX-5", which is five letters plus a number, excluding zero ‒ custom plates cost more than regular ones, of course. The first issued plate will be number 1, the second is 2, ect. ‒ this means maximum 9 can be issued with the same letters ‒, for example: MAZDA-1. 😊
If I'm not wrong you can basically do whatever you want on a Belgian plate, only restriction is numbers and letters must be separated by a - At least 1 letter and maximum 8. Also, it only costs €1.000 So uuhm, you see a lot of personalised license plates and for this price, it's guaranteed 90% are cringe. some examples: NOPETROL (on a Tesla) HIHIHI & HAHAHA (these 2 owners know each other) OPA-AUTO (translated GRANDPA-CAR) ZWAN (which is a brand for sausages) COVID-19 PLAY-BOY (on a white BMW) NR-PLAAT (translated LICENSE-PLATE) 0-MYGOD CLOCHARD (translated a hobo)
@@vlekarmy5424 Oh, I didn't wrote one thing: customised license plates are fully legal (here in Hungary), but they rarely can be seen on cars ‒ I think because of the much higher price for them.
Maybe it’s reverse psychology He has a friend in a normal transit transporting the doobie, but he is a distraction to waste police time pulling him over so his friend doesn’t get caught 🤣
That might be one of the best Top Gear thumbnails. Just him holding that license plate with that sort of "who did this, I'm sick of this flak" expression while the audience is laughing behind his back
The best personalised plate would be R37 ARD, which is either a description of the kind of person who'd have a personalised plate, or a mechanic that specialises in tuning old cars.
In my state, we have a license plate that says "Virginia, Kids First" on it, and someone put "Eat The" for their license. So it said "Virginia eat the kids first"
In China, there used to be a numberplate style consisting of a white background with a blue tint on the lower portion of plate available from 2002 to 2003. They have since between discontinued with the biggest reason being that these types of numberplates could be customised as NNN-NNN, NNN-LLL and LLL-NNN. Controversial examples include: USA-911, PRC-001, IBM-001, WTO, SEX, the number 250, and the big one USA-911. You were also not allowed to include CHN on your plate either however, you could somehow put PRC on your plate. As of now, any plates that were in this style were changed to the standard blue 1992 plates.
In Germany you can’t really personalise your number plate but you can choose what letter/number combinations you want so you can have your initials & date of birth for example. However some combinations are banned, mainly due to associations with the Nazis, e.g. NS (National Socialist) , KZ (concentration camp), SA (Sturmabteilung), SS (Schutzstaffel) etc. Also some communist acronyms like STA-SI (in Starnberg near to Munich) or KG-B (in Bad Kissingen) are also forbidden. The district of Schwedt had the code SED up to 1994 when it was abolished when it was merged with a neighbouring district They reinstated their own code in 2014 but this time they had to change it to SDT…
I made a mistake of purchasing one of those DVLA number plates when I was 18. It had a number 3 for "E", and a 5 instead of an "S". It was only around 8 years later that I realised how cringy that plate was.
The only vanity plates I've seen in my country are: 'VET 1' (on a vet van), 'BUS 1' (on a minibus), 'AUR (insert numer)' (possibly by members of the Aur party), as well as any variation of 'CCC 333' (probably the earliest example of a vanity plate that i can think of in my country, back when vanity plates weren't even a thing here).
Agree with them about personal plates BUT back in Edinburgh in the 80's/90's there was a well known lawyer who (the story goes, allegedly) got done for drink driving. A year or so later you'd often see his XJS going around with the reg "50 BER". I liked that.
That's funny, 4:38 I actually worked with a subcontractor with BA11BHG as his Reg Plate. Bascially conveyed the same message. I will email him and tell him to get his Pickup's MOT done, unless he sold it.
I can't think of anything I'd want to put on my plate. Someone once thought it would be a good idea to get "NO PLATE" but he regretted it when he started getting tickets for every illegally parked car without a plate.
For Yanks like me, I think it ought to be explained that an "ASBO" is an "anti-social behavior order", which is some sort of nanny state Britbong legal action designed to punish "anti-social behavior", which covers a hilariously wide range of "offenses".
you're saying this like court orders don't exist in America? All an asbo was is a court order telling you not to do something for a period of time or they'd prosecute for breaching it. They don't exist anymore and were replaced in 2014 by a CBO (Criminal Behaviour Order) which again is essentially a court order telling you what you can/can't/must do/go for a specific period of time or you face 4 years of prison time
The V14 GRA numberplate is registered to a yellow Fiat 500 Abarth. Absolute don driving around in that hahah
And it's got a custom wrap on it 😹
It used to be on a Renault Megane Coupe in the year 2001 lol
Hahahaha that’s hilarious, that plate is worth a lor
It's on an Abarth 595 now!
Probably some rich bitch who’s ex’s needed the stuff to live by 😂
They're all so young here. Time goes by quick. But I still love this trio. Absolute conversationalists!
Yep time really does go by VERY quickly. Ya hear that all your life and think only old ppl say it, and then all of a sudden ya look back at the past 25 years and wonder where did go??!!!
Top Gear had very few episodes per season. One can see their aging process more quickly.
@@danielt.8573 Except for James May for some reason.
He aged 5 years in 17 years in Top Gear, then in the 5 years since Top Gear, he's aged 17 years.
Silly Millionaires ... 😉
to me they still look the same
“Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off and what are you?”
“Genius, billionaire, P147 boy, philanthropist”
Haha! Nice!
''I understood that reference!'' - some old fart
I’m lost
For years I could never work out what P147 was supposed to be and this is how I find out
Oh shit, its playboy! Was always confused what a Piat boy was
Best number plate I ever saw was about 15 years back, when a BMW 5 series drove past with H17 LER.
To this day I have no idea how he got away with it.
LOL, don't tell the SNP or they'll be fighting in the streets to get that one. Maybe that's how they got away with it, it was Nicola Sturgeon's car.
Couple along my step dad's road are FN--SXY and FN--HSY which usually makes me smile, especially since they live so close and nope, they're not personalised plates though maybe should be, to stick on that pink horse box Clarkson reckons Jordan owns.
Used to be another not far from the same spot which I always thought was a shame being 1 number out or Tolkien nerds would have paid a fortune for it. It read EA14 ERU but if it'd been 15 then it would have made perfect Tolkien relevant sense, and yeah, aforementioned nerd here though not one who'd buy a personalised number plate. Ever. Glancing at number plates as you pass them to see if they're funny though, passes the time on boring journeys.
@@purpuradraco3747 I think HO66ITS would be a good LOTR plate.
The Jeep Cherokee that said FEET in my home town lives rent free in my head forever.
Me who does not know what it says;(
@@haloharry97 moustached painter from austria named adolf
Starting at 0:30 is one of the best examples of why I loved their news segments so much.
James' handicap joke there was sadly missed
"...however, some people out there do have a handicap"
The best part of the joke seemed to go over the audiences' head.
Went over mine too 🧐
Jeremy knows quite well that number plates that even look personalized can be very dangerous.
😂
But that plate wasn’t a personalized license plate
@@fedsinnorth-dakota9810 i said look, not were meant to be personalized
H982 FKL
@@IndoClaudioGT that's what I was referencing.
Something I thought was ridiculous is they banned the entire SN07 run, replacing it with TN07, because SNOT is apparently offensive. But they allowed xx69 plates for the second half of 2019. I'm sure you've all seen the BJ69KFC Fiat 500 on social media for example.
Many years ago I was told that there was BED690K out there somewhere.
They didn't exactly 'replace' SN07 with TN07, but had to 'invent' these 'T' series marks (including TF TJ TN)
as Edinburgh was experiencing a shortage of marks due to increased vehicle registrations that period and witholding SN didn't exactly help. These T marks have not been issued again since 07.
Newcastle have witheld NA21 and NA71.
So they opted for a workaround for THOT over SNOT 😂
I always thought the BJ69KFC plate was fake. You're telling me it's an actual thing?!
@@computernaut Yes it's real. Fiat 500 "Rockstar" model, first registered 30th September 2019.
The hamas joke aged like fine wine fr 😂😂
😂😂
Frfrfrfrfrfrfrfr
Whatever that means. I see all the Kool Kidz using it, so my old ass is getting in on it too!
Fr.
@@vincedibona4687 It means "for real"
@@robotb0ythegam3r frfrfrfrfrfr
Or whatever.
I thought that it stood for "How's My Ass"
This is funny and interesting because a few years ago the Nova Scotia (Canada) government took a man's personalized license plate away because it was GRABHER. Which was his family name, Lorne Grabher. It was all over the news in the Maritimes and he took it to court and lost. He then appealed and lost that, and then tried to take it to the Supreme Court of Canada and they refused to hear it and so he couldn't go any further. The province was roughly divided in half with the support or opposition to his case. It was a huge thing here.
OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THAT HAHAHA. I think that’s when I decided to never get one too lol
The east will get into a shit fit over anything eh
The most ironic vanity plate I've ever seen is VAN17Y. It belongs to a very modest lady I know from my orchestra, who drives a 10 year old Nissan Note. But the best part is how she acquired it: she imported a car into the UK from Ireland back in the 80s, and the DVLA just assigned that plate to her car! I bet it would go for a bomb at auction.
These days all replacement marks start at 101 and even miss out vaguely interesting numbers such as 111, 222, etc
In Melbourne there was a Lamborghini (or something similar) with the number plate 4MYEGO
How did that plate from the 80s car get transferred to a newer Nissan Note?
@@am_pm.17 You can reassign a personalised registration, called a "private plate" in the UK, to another car so if you buy a car with a private plate, you can transfer the registration to another vehicle. Doing this, the previous bearer will receive its original registration back or the next available one. You can also retain a private plate in case you don't have a vehicle to transfer it to or are saving it for a later purchase. Doing that, you get a certificate proving your ownership for when you want to use it again.
In the situation of the 80s -> '10 Nissan Note, the woman in question could have either been transferring the registration between every car she's owned over the years or she retained it over those years.
As to why the DVLA assigned a private plate imported to the UK from Ireland without some outside influence, I have no idea.
You forgot when they had the Dragons Peter and Theo on, and Theo revealed he’d bought Peter a personal number plate: W411 KER
So....wallker? Cause thats what a 1 is used for
I know i know...wanker...but it goes back to what they are saying here. It just doesnt spell wanker. In the US we are given far more freedom when it comes to those personalised license plates
@@ConnorNotyerbidness yeah in Germany we have even less freedom, it's City of registration (HH for hamburg for example) two letters Wich we can choose, and 1-4 numbers Wich we can choose... Sometimes, in some cities you have to have 4 numbers.
Actually it was W4N KER
@@ConnorNotyerbidness No it was W4N KER which spelt Wanker
I'd put an n instead of the 11 would be amusing not for Peter or saying he is one but get a plate saying that it would I imagine make the people in the car behind laugh aswell maybe
There's a bloke somewhere with a Peugeot 1007, with A1 NUS, if I ever meet him he's getting a beer
It’s a Red BMW
Source- DVLA
Recently seen. N11PSY NIPSY
I think he’s hinting at more than a beer!
Some guy with a WRX STI has ST0L3N
3:23 Now that i didn't expect to pop up on top gear
you didnt?
all of what is going on was planned before
Best number plate issued by Victoria Australia was 1BJ 4ME!
That wasn't even a personalised plate! lol
My number plate is 9BJ 4ME
I'm greedy.
One Blackjack for me? (That's what I think it means)
@@dangerdean9066 1 blow job
what does that spell
*AR53 HOL* would make more sense.
(¬ ͜ʖ¬)
would be curious if AR is availible for personal reg due to it being short hand for assault rifle
@@Hewitt_himself AR in reference to AR 15 does NOT stand for Assault Rifle, it stands for Armalite Rifle, the name of the compaby that made it.
Anyone who says otherwise doesnt know what they are talking about
@@ConnorNotyerbidness it's not Armalite Rifle, just Armalite
Because the AR-17, the Shotgun, is not a Rifle
@@youraveragereloader649 it literally means armalite rifle. They just also started calling it the armalite ar 15. They continued to use AR as it was the "brand". Especially since armalite sold the rights to colt anyway and ceased to exist in the 80s
AR does still stand for Armalite Rifle, even for the shotgun
I wonder if anybody in Britain has the number plate "CPT 510W"? If someone does, they should try selling it to James May
What does this number plate mean ?
@@maxpoweroverdrive captain slow
That plate does exist! On a BSA motorbike last taxed in 1992. Sad fact of the day.
It's a good prank to do, I can imagine the response you'd get from May on that 😅.
@@johngreen6375 James?
That James May golf joke hasn't aged well given Hamster now plays golf.
I mean he and Jeremy still hate golf
Lol the joke still stands even if Hammond plays golf ..
And doesn't Oliver have a personalized plate?
Yes, he does
So at the end everything still holds up
Generally speaking, comedy does not age well.
Most jokes are for a particular time and culture. I read a review about a Japanese man doing stand up comedy. The Japanese people in the audience laughed uproariously, but his jokes were not the least bit funny to English speakers.
He made a joke about a man who dropped a piece of tofu. He picked it up, "And he ate the tofu!" All the Japanese people laughed at this, but it's not funny at all to English speakers.
3:25 this hits different in October 2023
You can say that again
hell yea
Off topic but i want to share that clarkson has confirmed they are doing another season for Clarkson's farm.😄😄
No kidding sherlock...
That mans just throwing money away at this point
@@untaggedguru5602 technically no ones losing money in the series. Clarkson making up loses with amazon money and amzon already in profit from the viewers
Yay
We can read the news ourselves thanks.
Here in Colombia we can't really personalize our plates. Three letters, three numbers, your town name, go. However, it's got some amusing moments, like a Mercedes C-Class with the Bogotá plate BMW-666. Or the most amusing of all, some Police SUVs with the following plate sequence from a little town called Timaná:
GAY-001
GAY-002
GAY-003
And so forth. They might be armoured, but they always get a chuckle when their drivers appear in the cities.
Hungarian plates are the same, although you can bay ABCD-12 or ABCDE-1 format for extra money.
The best one to this day is NOT-911 on a brand new ambulance. The emergency phone number is indeed not 911, but rather 112.
In Germany the first one, two or three letters are the town or municipality your car is registered to, then there's two letters and three or four numbers. Everyone gets to choose the letters and numbers on their numberplate, but of course you're somewhat limited by the first two letters. Doesn't mean that people won't get creative, I think the best one I saw was AU TO 9001, so basically car over 9000.
@@mikeblatzheim2797 best one I remember was *NEW BH¹ ###*
Also a popular one in my Neighboring town is *FÜ CK ###,* unfortunately I haven't yet spotted the one legend that got the license plate saying *FÜ CK 455* yet. Must be somewhere out there!
¹(BH is the german acronym for bra. The full word is "Busenhalter" , which literally translates to "titty holder" XD)
In Poland it works similar to Germany. But even if there are no personalized number plates we still get creative for example plates starting with EPA - Elvis Presley Alive or EBR - Ewidentny BRak mózgu (eng. Evident Lack of Brain).
The standard numberplate in UK follows this format: AB12 CDE - the first two letters (AB) is the regional indicator, the number (12) represents the model year, for example 12 is a 2012 car. The last 3 letters are randomised
My friend Verity has V33 VER. It caught my eye because that’s Max Verstappen’s racing number and his shortened name in the position graphics. It’s obviously not a rude one but I’m staggered she could afford it if the prices are the same now as they were when this was made.
Sell it to Max himself
prices can be ridiculous and they can also increase. a guy i know has been buying reg plates as an investment.
Won't be of any use now 🤣🤣 Max will be racing with no. 1
@@ManishKumar-gb8rq I left a PS in her Christmas card that she’d have to change the number to 1 next year.
OOOFF ITS NOW 1 LMAO
There’s an old Canadian TV show called Bumper Stumpers where contestants have to guess the personalized (vanity) plates. It’s hard to watch from a production perspective but fun for people who like this kind of stuff. It’s on YT.
Man I miss these, three so much now, I watched top gear like mad back then. No one will come lose to these three. Fantastic video.
They still do things together
1:54 The iconic James May laugh has arrived ladies and gentlemen
I wish top gear died with clarkson and the trio the chemistry between themselves is just iconic they love and hate each other kinda like brothers to each other and they both will lookout for each other in realy bad situations
My grandfather had a license plate like these. He did his and my Grandmother's initials....it ended up spelling JAIL
That is where they pricesly belong....
@@somegirl558 no, they're some of the nicest people I know
@@ReiseLukas amusing story, thanks for sharing
@@somegirl558 why do you put 4 ellipses at the end of every sentence?
@@FruityAlexis dramatic effect.....
2:39
The British Intelligence wants to know your location
The don't catch no-one so they won't catch me
That Hamas letter plate really coming back around in late 2023 💀😬
Would you care for P155 OFF?
Many years ago I saw P155 POO on a knackered old van.
@@Doug791 man if i had a car and was british, that'd be my plate
P155 OLE is also a classic
PU 55Y
P155 B01
Best one i've seen is PEN 1S on Roller owned by Steve Parrish,motorcycle racer!
Most hilarious I've seen was one that was KNK. But when it drove by I thought it was KKK. For miles until I caught back up with the car I was just incredulous that someone was even allowed to have that.
Steve Parrish was at The Goodwood Festival of Speed on Sunday and he had printed on his bike's windshield 'MORE THAN 2 STROKES AND YOU'RE A W@NKER!' (I replaced the @ myself just in case lol)
I didn’t know that drum kits had to be registered 😂
I know, perhaps that's why so many musicians turn to drink driving...
That one does because it's beat les(s )
2:40 - A rare moment of self-awareness.
And it's over the stupidest thing.
@@mutilator97 It may seem stupid, but remember...
The Government basically sells you those Plates with the ability to rearrange the numbers, and then fine you for having rearranged the plate.
If they're willing to do that to something so minor, what else have they done, and to something more major?
you missed the bit in one of the specials where jeremy points out how everyone else has anagrams on their plates, and it cuts to a shot of his car with a plate like "O55 CNUT" or something like that
Do you mean on British Sport Cars challenge???
I remember where Hammond in Elan had LIAR on his plate while James May in TVR had GOSH/GHOST in his plate and Jeremy had CTUN in his Jensen Healey (sorry if I am wrong on last car Brand)
CTU 131N.
I don't get it. What was O55 CNUT mean???
@@LuciferLizardo you'll know when you're older
@@thepotatoincident3593 I'm already old. Your comment does not help. Explain. Now.
In 1996, the P reg was coming out and the most sought after number was
P155 OFF
but the DVLA wouldn't allow it.
Funny enough the way these plates work in my state is they are more expensive by year to register than just the first like a rational person would think. But I know someone that literally orders new plates every year instead of just renewing the plates because "it cost me the same so they can make me new ones"
Friend of mine had a Rolls Royce and would fit new plates each year to make the neighbors think he had a new car.
There was also one from the Lorry challenge:
"I think he's going to be quite cross with us."
"No(!)"
"Have you seen what he's done to the number plate?"
"Oh for God's sake!"
"Personal plates, he is such a pikey,"
They were wheeling Hammond's Opel Kadett which had the registration number "OLI V3R"
2:10 Hammond saying 'Elbow' is one of his BEST lines.
The depressing moment when you realise 11 plates are now 10 years old 😭😭😭😭
Almost 12.....😐
@jacquesvanstaden 2011 plates
Sheiiittt...
...and that my car is even twice that age.....
Oh damn
The "H982 FKL" moment almost made them lose teeth.
Or worse.
Yeah having to apologies to an Argentinian
@@tommo6090 I wouldn't. They lost, deal with it.
@@tommo6090 Argentinian butthurt
You took that the complete wrong way. I'm saying it's bad enough they had to apologies.... I'm English
They're absolutely right about the personalised plates. They're ridiculously stupid.
I had to warn my parents years back when I got a car to not even think about it.
The next year my Dad bought my mother one. I dodged a bullet there.
All personalised plate are stupid and should've been banned.
They're free when you register your car in Virginia :^)
@@dinkledord7026 Glad to hear that's some tugboat Chris Chan didn't waste then.
In germany its 10€ and basically everyone does it to have their initials on it or sth
@@automation7295 shut up
🇭🇺 Here in Hungary, custom license plates are fully legal, the format is "XXXXX-5", which is five letters plus a number, excluding zero ‒ custom plates cost more than regular ones, of course. The first issued plate will be number 1, the second is 2, ect. ‒ this means maximum 9 can be issued with the same letters ‒, for example: MAZDA-1. 😊
If I'm not wrong you can basically do whatever you want on a Belgian plate, only restriction is numbers and letters must be separated by a -
At least 1 letter and maximum 8. Also, it only costs €1.000
So uuhm, you see a lot of personalised license plates and for this price, it's guaranteed 90% are cringe.
some examples:
NOPETROL (on a Tesla)
HIHIHI & HAHAHA (these 2 owners know each other)
OPA-AUTO (translated GRANDPA-CAR)
ZWAN (which is a brand for sausages)
COVID-19
PLAY-BOY (on a white BMW)
NR-PLAAT (translated LICENSE-PLATE)
0-MYGOD
CLOCHARD (translated a hobo)
@@vlekarmy5424 Oh, I didn't wrote one thing: customised license plates are fully legal (here in Hungary), but they rarely can be seen on cars ‒ I think because of the much higher price for them.
@@vlekarmy5424 There's a license plate out there that translates to "license plate"? Absolutely incredible
@@JetFalcon710 yep, it was a huge hype in Belgium to get a custom plate since the prices were being halved (from 2.000€ to 1.000€).
@@vlekarmy5424 Awesome
3:04. I have actually seen A55 OLE on a car in east London.
Unregistered on the DVLA.
@@lordofreality Must have got the number wrong then, it was a few years ago. It was definitely something like that though. On a Peugeot RCZ I think.
I was leaving work one day and seen a whole transit van with THC 420 as the private reg. Might as well have a neon sign saying "pull me over"
Maybe it’s reverse psychology
He has a friend in a normal transit transporting the doobie, but he is a distraction to waste police time pulling him over so his friend doesn’t get caught 🤣
He’s based.
Sounds like the ideal reg for the Dutch ambassador's car...
fyi about the number plates as of 2024:
B347LES is on a black Peugeot Boxer
V14GRA is on a yellow Abarth 595
ME11ONS is on a black Ford Focus
Hammond's face in the thumbnail is priceless!
That might be one of the best Top Gear thumbnails. Just him holding that license plate with that sort of "who did this, I'm sick of this flak" expression while the audience is laughing behind his back
These are great episodes. Thank you.
"Jordan's pink horsebox" is definitely a euphemism.
It could also be interpreted as "whore's box"
@@universalrandomizer405 Did you hear him? He said it out fr*cken out loud. No wonder he was sacked. *facepalm*
@@ValeriePallaoro that's not why he was sacked.
No shit Watson
@@A2ZviaBLT No shit WATSON?
It's like when people get excited that calculators can add a couple of letters and MAKE REAL WORDS.
5318008
When I was at highschool I had a casio calculator that allowed even write short sentences...
"There's no "I" in team, and there's no "I" in Toast!"
Jeremy subtly saying "Whore's Box" and Hammond picking up on it is the funniest part of this entire video I stg
The P147 BOY Number Plate has recently been registered to a BMW 1 Series. Legend! 😂
0:21 that's a really good point right there
'Oh yeah, P174 Boy, I've met him!
The best personalised plate would be R37 ARD, which is either a description of the kind of person who'd have a personalised plate, or a mechanic that specialises in tuning old cars.
Wrong. Best one :
TIS 51BRO
@@UltraCasualPenguin I am having trouble with this one, and so is Google. Could you explain it for my benefit?
@@UltraCasualPenguin a tissibro? Huh?
I kinda see the 7 as a T but the 3 as a backward E always looks pathetic. Still, I suppose that’s what vanity plate owners are.
@@metube9541 You're too young to remember leetspeak.
This vid is legendary for so many reasons 🤣🤣
That "is anyone into golf" joke was absolutely hilarious hahahahahahaha
I contacted DVLA in 1996 to try to buy P155 OFF but they weren’t going to issue it :-(
They just tell you to piss off when you try and get your life's ID back off them after 6 months instead.....😂
I miss this show. Trio Legends for sure.
I'm from Nuremberg, Germany.
I once saw someone driving around in a car with the plate N-CC-1701E, which is glorious.
Very enterprising of them.
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HA06 MAS on the back of a pick up aged well
In my state, we have a license plate that says "Virginia, Kids First" on it, and someone put "Eat The" for their license. So it said "Virginia eat the kids first"
I love how they used to handpick beautiful lady's and put them behind the presenters in camera shot. 😀
3:20 "That one didn't age quite so well..."
Aged like fine wine if you ask me
In China, there used to be a numberplate style consisting of a white background with a blue tint on the lower portion of plate available from 2002 to 2003. They have since between discontinued with the biggest reason being that these types of numberplates could be customised as NNN-NNN, NNN-LLL and LLL-NNN. Controversial examples include: USA-911, PRC-001, IBM-001, WTO, SEX, the number 250, and the big one USA-911. You were also not allowed to include CHN on your plate either however, you could somehow put PRC on your plate.
As of now, any plates that were in this style were changed to the standard blue 1992 plates.
TIA-989 (for tienamen square 1989) would be funny to see
I miss Top Gear hope one day it's back .I have all Clarkson's VHS that he did Yearly
well "The Grand Tour" is a thing...
The version that took over tried to imitate the atmosphere of JC and Co, and failed miserably.
@@RadovanslavSad that the tent is gone, but we got a buncha specials
In Germany you can’t really personalise your number plate but you can choose what letter/number combinations you want so you can have your initials & date of birth for example. However some combinations are banned, mainly due to associations with the Nazis, e.g. NS (National Socialist) , KZ (concentration camp), SA (Sturmabteilung), SS (Schutzstaffel) etc. Also some communist acronyms like STA-SI (in Starnberg near to Munich) or KG-B (in Bad Kissingen) are also forbidden. The district of Schwedt had the code SED up to 1994 when it was abolished when it was merged with a neighbouring district They reinstated their own code in 2014 but this time they had to change it to SDT…
STA-SI isn't forbidden. There is/was a Citroën in my area who had this number
@@TheJetJONES it should be though. Especially as there were so many in the GDR whose lives were ruined by this organisation.
I made a mistake of purchasing one of those DVLA number plates when I was 18. It had a number 3 for "E", and a 5 instead of an "S".
It was only around 8 years later that I realised how cringy that plate was.
You're too late realising how cringy the plate was. Why are people too late at everything?
That's okay, there's literally nothing you could do at age 18 that you won't regret at age 26. It's just the way of things.
3:22: oh fuck. I forgot about this.
1:44
"THERE'SNOIIT‘STOAST"
*-Richard Hammond.*
There’s no better plate than ’ASSMAN’
"The DVLA is a big building somewhere in Wales"
Best one I ever saw was 'SPL 1 F' in Suffolk a long time ago
Best number plate was: AWH YEA. My bf and I drove past the car which had said number plate and it took 10 minutes for us to stop laughing.
AA55 HOL is the perfect plate for Mayor Khan. Either his personal Range Rover or one of the two that follows him around.
I love the second or two where Hammond is figuring out Clarkson's Toyota comment.
Flash-forward, ball bag is Clarkson's racing suit in the new grand tour special carnage a trois
The only vanity plates I've seen in my country are: 'VET 1' (on a vet van), 'BUS 1' (on a minibus), 'AUR (insert numer)' (possibly by members of the Aur party), as well as any variation of 'CCC 333' (probably the earliest example of a vanity plate that i can think of in my country, back when vanity plates weren't even a thing here).
I believe that VET 1 was horse veterinarian. I had seen it driving around a few years ago.
In the UK, BUS 1 is on a white Fiat Motorhome manufactured in 2008, and CCC 333 is on a black Mercedes-Benz S-Class manufactured in 2015
@@terryhayward7905the Vet one must be Sebastian Vettel
@@seb99342 haha I dont think so, since it was on a horsebox,
I saw a plate the other day with K1 NKY.
the news was always consistently good to watch even on the lacluster episodes and GT too.
3:30 aged like fine wine
One of the 55 reg plates they banned/didn't release is PI55 OFF!😂
A55 HOL TRULY REALLY REALLY TRULY WILL BE PERFECTLY PERFECT FOR ON A BMW & AUDI & MERCEDES .
Cheers Dave, just say you drive a Citroen Picasso mate 😂 just named some of the best car brands in the world.
Agree with them about personal plates BUT back in Edinburgh in the 80's/90's there was a well known lawyer who (the story goes, allegedly) got done for drink driving. A year or so later you'd often see his XJS going around with the reg "50 BER". I liked that.
That's funny, 4:38 I actually worked with a subcontractor with BA11BHG as his Reg Plate. Bascially conveyed the same message. I will email him and tell him to get his Pickup's MOT done, unless he sold it.
Best UK plate I ever saw was GA55 SUX on a Tesla.
Jeremy was right when he said Hammond was the wittiest of trio.
I still love seeing a white Peugeot with the last three letters JYZ. Nothing makes us smile more than remembering that JYZzy Peugeot.
Best one I’ve seen (in New Zealand) is STOLEN. Perfect cop magnet :)
My license plate says “RESCUED.” It gets more ironic every time I break down and have to call AAA.
Just wanted to add, in Germany you can have plate that says NAZ1, NAC1 or AH 39
What does AH 39 mean?
Couldn't you guess? AH for the Austrian rejected painter, 39 for the year he wishes he still had a save file for
@@o00nemesis00o oh, i see.
@@o00nemesis00o He'd be happy with a save file for '41 to be fair.
I still remember a Cenberra Plate back in 1998, standard issue.
YRU 007.
🇦🇺
I can't think of anything I'd want to put on my plate. Someone once thought it would be a good idea to get "NO PLATE" but he regretted it when he started getting tickets for every illegally parked car without a plate.
Hahaha that’s actually good
i like how in the end of every clip, clarkson always says "now"
I once saw a 911 with the reg B16 NOB.
I love how the majority of these are grand tour, yet youtube is linking top gear :P
For Yanks like me, I think it ought to be explained that an "ASBO" is an "anti-social behavior order", which is some sort of nanny state Britbong legal action designed to punish "anti-social behavior", which covers a hilariously wide range of "offenses".
Thanks, I was reading it maybe as '(A)I (5)have BO lol
My fingers hurt from scrolling. Your comment has eased my troubles.
Yanks a lot
Nanny state? Like Scotland?
you're saying this like court orders don't exist in America? All an asbo was is a court order telling you not to do something for a period of time or they'd prosecute for breaching it. They don't exist anymore and were replaced in 2014 by a CBO (Criminal Behaviour Order) which again is essentially a court order telling you what you can/can't/must do/go for a specific period of time or you face 4 years of prison time
I saw a Merc in a Sydney suburb with the numberplate ANA11y a few years back 😂😂
The best plate I saw in Perth was TIHZ HO.
The best one is PEN 15
Steve Parrish bike racer has it I think !
I've seen a white BMW 5 series around where I live with the plate H8 TUH
I've never wanted to key a car before, but now I do
1:16 that would be mine.
there's a yellow car in a city nearby that has the number plate ''gul bil'', which translates to ''yellow car''