"Vehicle registration plates of Austria Austrian car number plates are mandatory vehicle registration plates displaying the registration mark () of motor vehicles in Austria. They are used to verify street legality, proof of a valid liability insurance and to identify and recognise the vehicle. The license plates are made of metal; the imprinted text is in black letters and digits on a white background. Since November 1, 2002 the common design comprises a blue section on the left with the EU circle of stars and the country code ('A') like other vehicle registration plates of the European Union. On the"
"that is the letters Ö and Ü. Such a thing is rarely done in other European countries, but also appears on regular Montenegrin, Croatian and Serbian (letters Đ, Č, Ć, Š and Ž), Åland registration plates (letter Å), as well as on Swedish (letters Å, Ä and Ö) and Danish (letters Æ, Ø and Å) personal registration plates. In Germany there are no two codes where the only difference is that one letter O and Q, the only pair of codes with the letters I and J is IL for and JL for . BMW, owner of Mini, registers all"
"International vehicle registration code The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark. The sign must be displayed on the rear of the vehicle. The sign may either be placed separately from the registration plate, or be incorporated into the vehicle registration plate. The allocation of codes is maintained by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe as the ""Distinguishing Signs Used on Vehicles in International Traffic"" (sometimes abbreviated to DSIT), authorised by the UN's Geneva"
"Car class across Europe, while in Australia Group A is now a historic class, though only actual cars raced from 1985–1993 (complete with log books) are allowed to compete. Under Group A in the World Rally Championship, the cars used were modified road cars, often based on turbocharged, four wheel drive versions of small cars such as the Lancia Delta Integrale, Ford Escort RS Cosworth, Toyota Celica GT-Four, Nissan Pulsar GTI-R, Subaru Impreza WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. In order to be homologated, manufacturers were required to produce 5,000 units worldwide, and then in 1993 this number was reduced"
"would only increase it tenfold to 175,760,000 licenses). In August 2008, new cars had plates starting with ""HK"". , the series has reached the mid ""I"" series. In January 2015 the series had reached already the ""O"" series. Evolution of lettering (starts January 1, 1995) According to first letter start: In October 2014 the design of the new license plate to be used by all Mercosur countries was officially presented. It consists of a plate of , with a white background, the characters and frame in black and a blue band at the top that shows the name of the"
"registrations, have been issued to embassies and high commissions for use instead of a “D” or “X” registration on its vehicles. For example: United States’ embassy is allowed to use the registration USA 1; Zimbabwe's embassy ZIM 1; Jamaica's high commission JAM 1 and South Korea's embassy ROK 1 – 'Republic of Korea'. The North Korean embassy, however, had to buy a vanity plate: PRK 1D. Diplomats are exempt from payment of vehicle tax (motor car road fund licence duty). By default, a UK registration plate will accompany a vehicle throughout the vehicle's lifetime. There is no requirement to re-register"
"any country acronym e.g. American diplomats don't have US as their first two letters. They're ordered by the sovereign states' name in the French language. Thus AA denotes South Africa (i.e. Afrique du Sud). AB denotes Albania (i.e. Albanie) and so forth up until DT. The three digits are just a serial number. The last letter shows what kind of task the diplomat has. The approval sticker was placed last on the right. Just like the personal plates these vehicles have a standard format registration as well, which means a re-registration is not needed if the vehicle changes owner. Taxi"
"varied depending on its market: Japan received the A18A, A20A, B18A, B20A and A20A3 (US imported cars); Europe received the A16A1, A20A1, A20A2, A20A3, A20A4, B20A2, and B20A8; Australia and New Zealand received A20A2 and A20A4; other regions received A20A2 and/or A16A1; while United States, Canada and Taiwan (US imported cars) received the A20A1 and A20A3. On Accord 1986 model year engine block was marked as BS and BT in the United States, BS1 and BT1 in Canada, this cars had chassis code BA. Since 1987 the engine block in Indonesia was marked as NA instead of A20A2. The engine"
"two letter format numbered 1XA 0000, where X is the letter of region and A is a letter in alphabetical order (after 1AA 9999, 1AB 0000 follows). Since 2004 with the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, a blue European strip with the letters CZ and European stars were added. As of 1 January 2015, registration numbers are not changed if the owner of a vehicle moves to another region or if the vehicle is re-registered to a new owner residing in a different region. New numbers (with the corresponding code of the region of re-registration) are"
"combination of two to seven letters and digits, with certain exceptions, mainly for offensive words or phrases and registered trademarks. Subject to those conditions, and upon payment of a NOK 9 000 fee, the applicant is granted the exclusive right to use the requested registration number on any class A or E vehicle they own for ten years. Between 1993 and 2012, self-adhesive validation stickers in primary colours were issued annually to every car that had valid road tax and insurance and had passed its latest biannual safety and emissions test. The stickers included the registration number in the form"
"known as FIRS. This registration scheme is known as the Federal Interstate Registration Scheme. The requirements of the scheme were as follows: If the vehicle was purchased to be used for interstate trade, no stamp duty was payable on the purchase price of the vehicle. The vehicle had to be subjected to an annual inspection for roadworthy standards, which had to be passed before registration could be renewed. With the registration identification; the first letter of the 6 digit identified the home state: W, Western Australia; S, South Australia; V, Victoria; N, New South Wales; Q, Queensland; T, Tasmania; A,"
"order, or some combination thereof. Other states like Indiana and Tennessee also once used the practice, with Tennessee discontinuing in the 1980s and Indiana in 2008. Only three places in the United States use letters to designate a residence where a vehicle was registered. In Hawaii, the license plates have a unique letter designation based on the island counties that residents purchased or registered the vehicles from; a vehicle with a registration number beginning with H or Z is registered in Hawai‘i County, one beginning with K is registered in Kaua‘i County, one beginning with M or L is registered"
"is a one digit number ranging from 0 to 9, it denotes the type of the vehicle. This is not used on special licence plates. Under the new system black characters on white background is the standard format for all license plates. A letter is placed before six digits. The most common is ""P"", which indicates a personally owned vehicle. ""B"" government, ""F"" is for military FAR vehicle, ""M"" is for Internal Affairs Ministry, ""T"" for rental units, ""D"" diplomatic, ""E"" embassy, and ""K"" for foreign companies. The same system is used on all classes of vehicles, from trucks through"
"letters identifying the non-individual car (for example: A 001 AA) or of a single letter identifying the area and three digits and three letters identifying the individual car (for example: A 585 CUO) Special registration plates also exist. Cars registered to non-Kazakh individuals and organizations have registration plates with black letters on a yellow background. Diplomatic vehicles use registration plates with white letters on a red background. Vehicle registration plates of Kazakhstan The current format of Vehicle registration plates of Kazakhstan uses black letters on a white background with a Kazakh Flag and the country code KZ on the left."
"design. License plates for vehicles belonging to foreign countries or international organizations adopt a different convention. They contain black letters on a white background. The plates have the letter CD followed by two or three digits denoting the country or organization, followed by up to three digits of the serial number. For example, a car with number CD 66 88 is owned by Vietnam. Generally, the number 01 is reserved for the ambassador's official vehicle. The numbers are ordered based on when they recognized Indonesia as a country. The United States was originally assigned CD 13; due to the stigma"
"assigned only in the case of damage, loss, or theft of a registration plate. From 2017 there is possibility of custom registrations plates. These have format XXX-XXXXX (one more character than ordinary plate) and must contain at least one number. Letters ""G, CH, O, Q"" and ""W"" are forbidden. This system was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1932. The first letters are represented by region. X-NN-NNN, white on black X-NNNNN, black on white This system was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1960. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic introduced a new system of car registration plates in 1997 while the"
"China, Croatia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, the Netherlands, New Zealand (restricted licence only), Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia (as of April 2014), Saudi Arabia (as of March 2012), Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. A conventional manual transmission is frequently the base equipment in a car, with the option being an automated transmission such as a conventional automatic, semi-automatic, or CVT. Unexpected gear changes can affect"
"due to legibility issues, for example the letters ""A"" and ""R"" were often hard to distinguish. From 2006 the font was changed again to improve legibility, and space was provided for a blue nationality stripe with a Norwegian flag. From 2009, plates were made of plastic, and produced in a factory at Tønsberg. From 2012, plates are again produced in aluminium. Also, electric cars have access to plates that begin with either ""EL"", ""EK"" or ""EV"". Current Russian registration plates are a mix of French FNI, traditional Arabic ""windows"", and Soviet ""small characters"", introduced in 1993. See this for Soviet"
"Cyrillic letters indicating where the vehicle was first registered. 1994 saw the introduction of the current format, which is intended to comply more closely with international norms. Major changes include the switch from Cyrillic letters to Latin, and the presence of the Turkmen flag with the two-letter country code TM on the left of the plate. Unusually, the alphanumerics are rendered in a mix of DIN 1451 and the unnamed font formerly used on French registration plates. The current format is: XX 99 99 XX while the last two letters is based on geographic location. Diplomatic plates are blue with"
"Africa 104 CD - Eritrea 105 UN - United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON) 106 CD - Czech Republic 107 CD - The Aga Khan 108 UN - UNFPA 110 CD - Botswana (Consulate) 115 CD - Ukraine 116 CD - Sahrawi 117 CD - Djibouti 118 CD - Sierra Leone 121 CD - South Sudan 123 CD - United Arab Emirates Vehicle registration plates of Kenya The current series of vehicle registration plates in Kenya are on a white plate with black lettering and look quite similar to UK suffix style registrations. The format is LLL NNNL, where ‘L’"
"the left since 1988. Vehicles with EU number plates do not need to display the white oval international vehicle registration code while within the European Economic Area (EEA), or in countries signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. Within the United Kingdom, motorists with vehicles registered in Great Britain may use number plates featuring the national flag of England, Scotland and Wales, or alternatively the Union Flag, together with the code name ""ENG"" for England, ""SCO"" for Scotland, ""Wales"" or ""CYM"" for Wales, ""GB"" for Great Britain or ""UK"" for United Kingdom respectively. Although not officially recognised outside the"
"different countries. About 52 countries have signed this treaty, which includes 31 countries from Europe. The convention has broadly classified the road signs into seven categories designated with letters A to H. This standardization has been the main drive for helping OEMs develop a traffic-sign recognition system that can be used globally. The first TSR systems which recognized speed limits were developed in cooperation by Mobileye and Continental AG. They first appeared at the end of 2008, on the redesigned BMW 7 Series, and the following year on the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. At that time, these systems only detected the round"
"letters DK. Both styles are in the XX 12 345 format. The first two letters run sequentially with no ties to any geographic region. The first two digits determine the type of vehicle. For example, 10 through 18 are reserved for motorcycle. EU registration plates were introduced in Finland in 2001. EU plates are automatically given to all vehicles unless the owner makes a separate request for old model plates. If desired, EU plates can be changed for old model ones at inspection sites. Registration plates used in Finland are made of aluminium with a reflective membrane coating. Numbers and"
"material to comply with the BS AU145a standard. In addition, Hong Kong started a new scheme in 2006 to allow personalised registration plates, with up to eight selectable letters or numbers. Macau local registration plates follow the Portuguese pre-1992 system of colour and sequence. Plates are black background with white numbers. Numbering system starts from M, and then one letter, and then 4 numbers, and separated by ""-"", e.g. MA-12-34. Earlier numbers will only have M instead of MA or MB or MC, etc. In the Republic of China vehicle registration plates are issued by the Ministry of Transportation and"
"used in the UK. Thinner-looking variants are commonly used by SBS Transit buses, taxis and goods vehicles. Rarely, the FE-Schrift font used in Germany can be seen – though the use of this font is prohibited by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). A typical vehicle registration number comes in the format ""SKV 6201 B"": Private car licence plate numbers began in the early 1900s when Singapore was one of the four Straits Settlements, with a single prefix S for denoting Singapore, then adding a suffix letter S 'B' to S 'Y' for cars, but skipping a few like S 'A'"
"Australia – The Rose State; and South Australia – The Electronics State. All slogan plates are discontinued, as at October 2008. It is also possible to obtain a wide variety of personalised registration plates that feature full-colour illustrations and customised logos or slogans. ABC-123 - AAA-QZZ (All except AMB), RAQ, RBQ up to SZQ, RQA-RQZ, SQA-SQZ, TAQ, TBQ up to XTQ (All except VPQ and WSQ), XUO-XZZ, YAQ, YBQ up to YHQ, YIM-YXZ (All except YKA-000 to YKA-799), YYQ, YZQ, ZAA-ZZZ. S-123-ABC - AAQ, ABQ up to BXQ. ARA - ARZ, BQA - BQZ, TAQ, TBQ up to TGQ. Vehicle"
"car was registered, the second being taken from the series A, B, C, E, I, K, M, H, P, O, T, X: Vehicle registration plates of Belarus Belarusian vehicle registration plates are currently composed of four digits, two letters and another digit (e.g. 1234 AB-5). The first of the letters and the final digit indicate the region of Belarus in which the car was registered. Vehicles owned by foreign companies use black-on-yellow plates, and the numbers and letters appear in a different order (e.g. M 1223). The diplomatic series uses white letters on a red background, also in a different"
"for foreign consul; ""D"" for diplomat; ""S"" for non-diplomatic staff; and ""A"" for a UN employee. The status code indicates the type of diplomatic, consular, or other immunity enjoyed by the vehicle's registrant. The country codes are unique to each particular country, but do not correlate to ISO Country Codes or other standards format. For example, in the old system used until 2007, France is ""DJ"" not ""F"" and Australia is ""XZ"" not ""AUS"". This is to prevent the general public from targeting diplomats from particular countries. Certain U.S. states issue honorary consul plates to U.S. citizens who have been"
"system is used for vehicles belonging to the diplomats of foreign countries with license plate from the host country. That system is host country-specific and varies largely from country to country. For example TR on a diplomatic car in the USA indicates Italian, not Turkish. Such markings in Norway are indicated with numbers only, again different from international standards (e.g. 90 means Slovakian. International vehicle registration code The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark."
"the issuing jurisdiction. The term ""license plate"" is frequently used in statutes, although in some areas ""tag"" is informally used. The official three letter ISO international code attributed to the United States is USA. Plate designs often contain symbols, colors, or slogans associated with the issuing jurisdiction. Registration number formats, typically alphanumeric, are designed to provide enough unique numbers for all motor vehicles a jurisdiction expects to register. For example, the small states of Delaware and Rhode Island are able to use formats of 123456, while California uses the seven-character format 1ABC234, and several other populous states use seven-character ABC-1234"
"United Kingdom aircraft registration United Kingdom aircraft registration is a register and means of identification for British owned and operated commercial and private aircraft, they are identified by registration letters starting with the prefix G-. An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies a civil aircraft, in similar fashion to a number plate on a vehicle. The letter Q has not been used since the issue of G-EBTQ in 1927 (although a few historic aircraft still maintain registrations with this letter), and the CAA also disallows combinations that may be offensive. In accordance with the Convention on International"
"this font is prohibited by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). A typical vehicle registration number comes in the format ""SBA 1234 A"": Vehicle registration plates of Sri Lanka (known in Sri Lanka as ""number plates"") started soon after introduction of motorcars in 1903. Initially the numbers started with Q, and the oldest existing plate is ""Q 53"" of a 1903 Wolsley. Later the island was divided into sections from ""A "" to ""Z"" (Ex A 123 ), then after World War II it changed to the two Roman letter plates combining pairs of letters in the word CEYLON . These"
"to have their front windows tinted and have to comply with all EU safety regulations. The US vehicles do not have to comply with EU lighting and emission regulations since the US standards are different. At the end of 2008 the US Forces started to introduce a new plate for temporary registration of vehicles (transfer plates). The small-size version with the blue strip ""USA"" and NATO insignia is in use. The red letters are in FE-style and the code follows the format ""T xx yyyyy"". The ""T"" happens to be short for either ""temporary"" or ""transfer"", but was primarily chosen"