davidjay wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 9:17 pm
Abernathy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:54 pm
Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:37 am
This is too infantile even for a peak career Clarkson.
So, in essence, it’s a device that permits you to conceal your vehicle’s registration plates. Driving without registration plates is a criminal offence is it not ?
How often do you see cars without plates in your hood? Because round here it's getting increasingly common.
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I see a lot of it, usually by the "clean front" brigade who will also have had their cars "coded" so that the front indicators are lit permanently - then they can pretend they're Yanks

In fact, I saw a tricked-up VW van doing just this on my way home. The number plate has conveniently fallen off (honest, guv) and is usually on the front parcel shelf in the windscreen.
Further reading:
The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001
One of my colleagues is a former Met Response Officer and she can give you chapter and verse on your VRM - I didn't realise it was a legal requirement for a plate to bear the name of the people who produced it, for example.