Why do people get them ?
Do you remember any outstanding one ?
I saw one this morning which said CUTEMAMA , but the driver was a bald headed old guy . I burst out laughing. 
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Well i had one and I love it 
And its not a name.I have seen very creative ones too.Once there were two black lincolns onw was mr.Smith and another one was Mrs.Smith.
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I've seen official Mary Kays pink lincoln SUV with plate saying MaryKay1 or something .. a fat bald guy was driving it :D
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We have custom plates for all of our cars. Bought them.
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Best one so far!..Wife’s Revenge!
Says it all…WAS HIS…
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love the WAS part!
wwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
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I would like to know why ?
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saw one a while back which was b1g d4wg - it was on a massive range rover.
and lol at the 'was his' fabulous.
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I would like to know why ?
I like to customize things and its fun to have your choice of plate.Although its not safe.
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UZ there are 2 safety issues, names etc can have a little issue, i mean if someone is stalking you type of thing, second is that statistically cars with vanity plates get broken into more often from what I heard.
Mirch as far as why- its personal expression, why do you have a nick versus some random number assigned by GS and a specific avatar versus some generic one assigned by GS, etc.
as far as outstanding plates, here is one
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I think they’re tacky… having said that, when i ordered my car, and it arrived, the last 3 letters of the plate were the initials of my first name, surname, and hubbys surname… total coincidence 
I’ve seen some like:
‘no name’
‘G4NSR’ - meaning gangster i presume… desi rude boy driving a BMW X5
‘S11AG’ this could be two things… either way…
‘P11MMP’ - Another desi guy, in a Merc…
‘V14GRA’ - on a family car…
‘PAK 1’ - no explanation needed
‘B4D B0Y’ - another Ilford ‘desi rude boy’
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^^ I get when you see them on range rovers, mercs etc as theyre a class think, like you'll have something along the lines of m4lik or kh4n, but its when they have b4d b0y on a 8 year old vauxhall corsa with tinted windows that annoys me.
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Mmmmm last time I was in the Uk - the classic one that Id seen in a tanked up dark blue " rudeboy" Mitshubishi was.. wait..."P4KI"- great for race relations in the North of England!!!! methinks!!!!
I would like to know why ?
Here in UAE there are no alphabets or alphabets+numericals mixtures on the licence plates. Only numericals.
So if you buy a licence plate, you are essentially buying a nice number.
ours are like 4 digits, 3 digits and on one car there is 5 digits but the number is really cool. it is something like 6*0*6 .. the asterisk sign has same numbers..
as for why we got them, people give respect to the car if they see a bought good number.. buying licence plate numbers and that also good one's means u got monies.
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Hmmm.....I like creative license plates. But I've always wondered about people who display their names on their license plates. As **X2 **said, there's a greater safety risk with such license plates. But I wonder if name-bearing license plates could be a sign of possible arrogance......like announcing to the world that YOU are on the road. What do you guys think?
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JATT5ABI, saw this one in Brampton.
I don’t like name plates which had people names in it but creative ones are cool.The one I liked was “yzyzyz” 
as for why we got them, people give respect to the car if they see a bought good number.. buying licence plate numbers and that also good one's means u got monies.
You could start earning people's respect by constructing grammatically correct sentences.
haw haai uncle! ye kaya kiya?
broke the gals heart.
p.s. 
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i dont see vanity plates as status symbol, i mean in chicago a vanity plate is like what $50 or so..whoop di doo..big spender :)
its more of self expression or personalization than status ..gone are those days.
yeah there still are some status plates..but thats a whole diff issue and its dumb regardless