MikeJ

No need for that, you can get a plate that fits American spec cars if you want to:

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Hypersonic

A little OT here, but as long as I'm alive, I doubt I will ever understand the perceived prestige of a super-stretched car - could somebody explain to me what is so illustrious and impressive about adding extra length to, what in most cases are, rather mediocre luxury cars?

Snake Vargas

That you have so much money that you can afford to do stupid things to crappy cars just to relieve the pressure on your bulging wallet?

Anyhow, I think that to change the license plate area, you'd just need to change the plastic area around it. I assume it's plastic because it would be cheap and easy for the car makers to make different versions as suitable.

I guess America is a big enough market to demand their own license plate size - in Australia, we get some different sized plates, including a Euro-style one for my state, New South Wales. They look great on European cars, and even on other non-European cars.

The only thing is that, often on Japanese cars, they have a strangely shaped tallish and narrower holder that protrudes out the front of the otherwise smooth bumper. The size and shape could be not unlike the American one. Good for Japan, but where our plates don't fill the whole thing, it just looks awkward.

donau

That's good news. Thanks!

MikeJ

A lot of used cars are imported to Finland from Germany, and Finnish plates are narrower than German which means that when people leave German plateholders on their cars they look awkward too.

This one is not as bad as the plastic ones which are more common, but I couldn't find a pic of one.

donau

I don't claim to know but I can only think about the way I have perceived cars myself. It used to pain me to have to spend a few thousand dollars for a secondhand car, which was basically an object performing a utility function for me. During that time of my life, when I saw long stretched limos I used to think that that's how the wealthy live. The point being that when cars did not matter all that much, that's when I perceived them as being prestigious. Of course with my changed mind-set, they now look cheap to me. But maybe the majority of people for whom cars are only utilitarian objects find the stretched limos desirable?

Carbon

Some cars look better with Euro plates than US ones.

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klier

All German cars look better with EU plates (at least in the back, I like the small ones in the front), since the are designed with the German size plates in mind, more or less. Those small plates in the back really look awkward. All imo of course.

Carbon

Well some it doesn't make much difference. I believe in the license plate space for the E46 3 series BMW, you could fit either a Euro or US plate in the space it had (I could be wrong). I guess it still looked better with the Euro plate though.

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