Stupidity? Bad, but I forget about it minutes after it’s out of my sight. Stupidity combined with pretentiousness? It just sticks with me, pissing me off more and more.
Seen Saturday night in the parking lot of our local PathMark – a BMW with a New York license plate reading “BMW OWNR”.
No. Fucking. Shit.
What’s the matter, was IST8DAOBVUS too long?
We can’t think that he is gasp leasing it, now can we? Imagine the indignity.
Dishonorable Mentions:
'02 Mustang - “GT NOT”
'01 Thunderbird - “WOW HOT”
The dumbest to date… “PORSHA”.
On a… guess… just guess… :rolleyes:
The one that made me laugh out loud was “WTUPDG”. 
To counter that one, I must tell you that there is a Corvette in Southern California with plates that read: A VET BFD.
A clever counter example:
On a Mini Cooper: “EX SUV”
How about DUH-8…um… no wait, that’s the one the Registry office gave me. 
Guess what kind of car this one was on: “PTCRSR”
I saw a van (not a mini-van, a full-size one) with a license plate of I8 URSUV.
My award, for the category of Self-Acknowledge Pretention, goes to the Saab with the plate that said “SNAAB”. Laughed right out loud, I did.
My favorite was a few years back when I saw a car with the license plate MENSA8 …that had the gas cap open as it drove down the street.
This one graces our small town:
THE CAR
I win. (They paid extra money for THAT?)
(Dishonorable mentions: husband/wife initials, any PT Cruiser with PT or some variation of “CRUZ,” the year/model of the car)
I remember seeing 4U2NV on some fancy-schmancy German import about fifteen years ago.
Well, don’t want to change the tone of this thread, but I got one for the Sickest Personalized Plate. Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten claimed he saw a car with the following: “ZYKLONB”
He wouldn’t joke about something like that (not his sense of humor).
I don’t know if they have guidelines for controversial names in whatever state this guy got his plate from, but if they did, I could see how he got away with it. How many people do you think actually know what Zyklon B is, of the top of their head? And if they don’t know it, how many would think it would be an offensive thing. It sounds like some sci-fi planet name a nerd would put on his car.
Wasn’t that the gas used by the Nazis?
It may have been in New Jersey that a man was turned down for the ZYKLONB plate, sued on free-speech grounds, and lost.
But Virginia, I know for sure (from googling) has rejected it.
I saw this one the other day:
MTYGOD 1
I took it to mean that the car’s owner thought the car was a mighty god. Which seems awfully pretentious. 
The state issued me a plate that read C10 FRT. For 5 years my van was the “fartmobile”.
I see this one in San Francisco from time to time. It pretty much makes me want to chase him down and beat him to death. It’s a 7 series BMW: NOT LUCK
Har har
I did a project in Phoenix a few years ago and one of the IT guys had a similar plate, MENSA space something. Every once in awhile I’d point how how he spelled “Mesa”* wrong. He’d get all bent. “IT’s MENSA. MENSA. It’s an organization I belong to … blah blah blah.”
I’d have a good private laugh. He never caught on.
*Mesa is a suburb of Phoenix
There’s a book (or series of books) about how to make your business succeed called It’s Not Luck. I wonder if that’s related?
Anyhow, perhaps if I ever own a BMW, I will get a personalized plate that reads “BMW PWNR”.
(Oh, and I think “THE CAR” is a hilarious plate.)