OK, so as I see more of these the more I hate them. They make EVERY car look like a beater. 80% of New Yorkers agree; they suck, BUT...there is a loophole! http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/...%94not-yellow/ So, as we were driving on Friday we saw this lime green car with a mustard color license plate. Hello 1984! we thought to ourselves. Wow, someone actually PAID to keep that thing. But wait, thats a hybrid. Thats no vintage car. Then we saw another one. And another one. And another one. Well, every 10 years or so our wonderful state decides to change the design of our license plates: 1969 gave us blue with yellow numbersbad, but not horrible. They got real creative in 1974 and reversed it, yellow with blue numbershorrible. Then came 1986, white with navy numbers and the red statue of libertytasteful and simple. 2001, white again, a blue picture of Niagara Falls on one side, Manhattan skyline on the othernice. Fast forward to 2010: The Gold Standard. While we are usually a fan of all things retro or vintage, we have to say, a gold or bright yellow license plate on a brand new red Camaronot feeling it. But, while we were getting ready to screw these new bad boys on our silveryes, silvercar, while fastening our side pony tail with an electric blue scrungee and busting out into the safety dance, it came to us. We found a loophole: custom plates. And there just happens to be quite a few in the environmental category. So, maybe this was their plan all along. Maybe this is just the governments way of making us spend triple on customized plates to close the budget gap. Well, so be it. We surrender...
Those plates are SO UGLY! What is wrong with the ones you guys have right now? I think they are THE NY plate!
Just renewed my Z3 for two more years. Registration up to $127 from $67 two years ago. You have 3 choices , stay with the old plates, get the new gold plates with a new plate # for $25 more or get the new plates with your old # for $50 more. Wonder what percentage of fools will cough up for the gold at renewal. If they wanted to raise some revenue they should charge extra and allow you to use only a rear plate. They would make a killing with the Captree crowd.
They really are ditasteful.. The only vehicle they will match is a school bus with black bumpers and a black tailpipe! Dah, all of them!
I think some PA plates are the same color. When I first saw them, I thought they were from out of state. Then it hit me...... Luckily no new cars for a while. Ace
And from a non-NY or US car person, IMHO, I don't like them. Not as nice as the 1986 or 2001 blue-on-white plates.
What's even worse is they probably paid several million dollars to a designer and then several million more on focus groups, with which they then through out the research so someone up high could just pick what he liked because it matched his wife's car.
Saw one on a yellow Gallardo today, and it still looked horrible. As the guy I was talking with said: "That's what happens when the governor is blind"
I think they look identical to plates from the early 60's. I did not like the white plates when they first came out, so I'm sure in a few years or less we will all be use to them, however, I had to renew a registration recently and I opted for keeping my old plates, but it was probably more a of reason of not paying NYS another penny to register a car.
