Soapbox time...........a week or so ago, DVLA were crowing about the £500 million they had made from sales of desirable number plates. Did they happen to mention where the money went? Not on the roads I suppose!
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It's a downpayment for Cherie's facelift because the BBC are complaining about so many broken camera lenses.
OUCH
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And another thing about these sales...the DVLA are quite happy to sell you numbers like S4RAH or CLA55Y for thousands of pounds, but the small print says it's an offence to misrepresent them.
And sure enough, if you display these plates as SARAH or CLASSY by using non-standard spacing, fancy typefaces etc, then your car will fail its MOT, the police can stop you, and ultimately the number can actually be taken off you.
Seems to me like a severe case of government hypocrisy. Doesn't the Sale of Goods Act say that anything you purchase must be fit for its intended purpose? Or are the DVLA trying to claim they don't know what will happen if they sell S4RAH to someone called Sarah?!? It'd make an interesting test case...
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I wonder whether it is by this and other such devious measures that our wonderful government finds itself in such a strong economic position, so strong that it could not give the incumbent Son of the Manse more pleasure in preventing its redistribution to where it could and should do good. Instead, you can expect the apparatus of government to grow, consuming more and more of the nation's wealth. Stealth ain't the word; confidence trick is. I wonder . . .
Oops! Slipping off topic here.
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I used to understand the annual change of registration letter but then it became twice a year and now they have changed it again. Very confusing.
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I had a cherished number which I was on a motorcycle I scrapped more years ago than i care to remember. However I retained the log book and have had it updated to the current V5 which is still in my name. However the number is worthless unless it is fitted to a machine which has all the required documentation to present at the local VLO. Seems somewhat hypocritical then that DVLA can auction numbers that are not related to any vehicles. Talk about dual standards.
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The introduction of the bi-annual registration change may be partly responsible for the collapse in the used car market as suddenly cars began to look older than they really were. A 1998 R doesn't seem to be 3 years old but twice that because there have been S, T, V, W, X, and Y registrations in between.
The collapse in the car market happened before the manufacturers dropped retail prices. If consumers were not buying new cars then there should have been a drought of trade-ins and people preferring to either buy used or nearly-new. Supply and demand suggests that used values should have been bolstered by consumer reluctance to buy new.
Hopefully, the date-specific registration will be clearer than the current letter-based dating. However, should the introduction of such plates not be January and July?
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