Holy shit, that's indeed a thing apparently. Why ? is it a brainwormed US liberal thing ? Why would they want a EU-looking plate ?
I know why they'd want a US-looking one in the EU, mind you; a fair proportion of boomers here still have the weird golden image the US managed to project in the 80s/90s. Those particular people love the US aesthetic, and if they're able to they try to visit there regularly.
Nah. It's just a thing that some people like to put on European import cars just for fun. Sometimes the plate will not be a real plate, it'll say like "eurötrash" on it or like the name of the project car. Other times it'll be the same as their actual plate number.
It's always either a European import car or somebody making fun of that trend.
As an aside and if you're curious, after searching about it a bit, the fake NY plates in the picture I posted above are also strictly speaking illegal / non-compliant in France (despite being gladly sold here by the aforementioned Paris car dealer, which is almost certainly where the car pictured came from); though they also show an actual real plate number - I checked - so it'd likely be a misdemeanor - in fact I looked it up: it's a 135€/145$ bill; given these cars apparently sell for at least 80k€ I'm guessing the shitheads sporting such plates just see it as the cost of looking like americans.
The fake New York plates on that pickup are deeply funny. Incredible that there's an inverse to the fake europlates here in North America.
Holy shit, that's indeed a thing apparently. Why ? is it a brainwormed US liberal thing ? Why would they want a EU-looking plate ?
I know why they'd want a US-looking one in the EU, mind you; a fair proportion of boomers here still have the weird golden image the US managed to project in the 80s/90s. Those particular people love the US aesthetic, and if they're able to they try to visit there regularly.
Nah. It's just a thing that some people like to put on European import cars just for fun. Sometimes the plate will not be a real plate, it'll say like "eurötrash" on it or like the name of the project car. Other times it'll be the same as their actual plate number.
It's always either a European import car or somebody making fun of that trend.
Ah, makes sense, thanks.
As an aside and if you're curious, after searching about it a bit, the fake NY plates in the picture I posted above are also strictly speaking illegal / non-compliant in France (despite being gladly sold here by the aforementioned Paris car dealer, which is almost certainly where the car pictured came from); though they also show an actual real plate number - I checked - so it'd likely be a misdemeanor - in fact I looked it up: it's a 135€/145$ bill; given these cars apparently sell for at least 80k€ I'm guessing the shitheads sporting such plates just see it as the cost of looking like americans.