Vehicle Registrations in other countries, Who has the Best?

Question

In the UK, the vehicle number or licence plate is age and area specific.
What other options are used all around the world?
Are there any strange methods used?

Answer 1

The Alaska licence plate is pretty cool. Its shaped like a polar bear.
Most licence plates in Canada are pretty groovy too, and when you sell your car you take your plates, so you have the same one all the way through while you drive.
you just need to buy a new little sticker that goes in the corner of the plate each year. Like a tax disc here i guess.
hope that gives you an idea.

Answer 2

In Germany the license plate is bound to the county, you live in. As long as you live in this "Landkreis" you keep this license plate. The letters and the numbers are just from-to and don´t indicate the year or anything else. If you move to another county, you have to change the plate. If the car is sold, and the new owner lives in the same county, he keeps the plate. If not, he has to change to the county where he lives.
In Spain, the plates are bound to the car. It doesn´t matter where you live, the plate remains the same. It goes from "0000 AAA to 9999ZZZ". The old ones indicated the province, where the car was registered for the first time. so if you bought the car in Madrid (M) and moved to Valencia (V), you nevertheless kept the Madrid registration.

Answer 3

France. Very Logical

Number of cars 1 - 9999 Alphabetical Order eg BMG then BMH finally number of département (equivalent of county) eg 59 (Nord)

Answer 4

I always thought the US system, where you simply have a new numberplate every year, was kinda inefficient, but it meant you get a good choice of letters and numbers, and it's easy to tell whose tax isn't up to date.

Answer 5

Ace 11

K9 Ruf

Answer 6

yes for arizona they use NDN for Native American. example
NDN-86512, the reason DOT Safety, Patrol can easily spot a NDN (Indian).