Daily Mail - VP12 in the UK

doug · May 15, 2008

The green sports car powered by mobile phone batteries that's faster than a Lotus | the Daily Mail

Nothing particularly new here. Some reporter test drives the Roadster in the UK. (Surprise!!) She enjoys it.
Includes some nice shots of VP12 with Euro plates.

Cobos · May 15, 2008

Those plates seriously break the design. They need a new method or special smaller plates to make this less of an eyesore...

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doug · May 15, 2008

Yeah, front plates always look bad on a sports car. Almost any car, really.

Hey these other images weren't there when I first skimmed the article:

malcolm · May 16, 2008

I agree but I don't think that there's much that can be done about the dimensions of these plates as they are covered by legislation:-

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/media/pdf/leaflets/v796.pdf

Alfa have always had these problems:-

http://www.alfa-romeo-for-sale.co.uk/images/Alfa%20Romeo%2001.jpg

Cobos · May 16, 2008

Yeah I've seen that Alfa-Romeo in Norway as well and that position does actually look better than the Roadster one which looks horrible. I still can't understand why the designers don't automatically create rooms for the license plates in their street legal designs? The rear license plate in the picture f. inst. looks pretty cool actually. It's just the front plate which is really bad...

Cobos

malcolm · May 16, 2008

Someone needs to model the airflow through the front of the vehicle with the licence plate fitted lower. But then we're into the "teeth" discussion again

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/tesla-roadster/317-painted-lower-lip-part-one.html

(the photos in this thread were lost in the famous site crash of '07)

These are the people who manufacture most of the British and Irish plates

Vehicle Number Plates : Vehicle Number Plates : Rennicks

Kardax · May 16, 2008

The steering wheel's on the wrong side! (At least by U.K. standards...)

-Ryan

malcolm · May 17, 2008

How low can you go?

Front Number Plate Mount - £19.95 : Lotus Elise Parts, eliseparts.com

And if stick-on plates are still legal....

Number Plate

stopcrazypp · May 18, 2008

malcolm said:
How low can you go?

I agree...down with the plates!

doug · May 18, 2008

OOPS!!

Testing times for car maker as Boycott goes for a spin

In theory it's a PR man's wet dream – on Friday the 'Daily Mail' ran a full right-hand-page op-ed article singing the praises of eco sports car manufacturer Tesla. But the puff will have come at a price. Tesla executives must have had their hearts in their mouths as they handed over the keys of the £78k car to Rosie Boycott, whom the 'Mail' had sent out for the "exclusive test drive". Rosie has a chequered motoring history, having been banned from driving for three years in 2003 after crashing on the A303, injuring another driver. The previous day she had been stopped for drink-driving. Luckily her battle with the bottle is over, but insuring the old gal can't have been cheap.

Actually, now that I think about it... This is probably just sour grapes from The Independent.

dpeilow · May 29, 2008

I think the roadster would look good with a square-type plate on the front (i.e. white version of the rear one). I've seen several Honda S2000s with this and it suits them.

On another note, I find it strange that the Daily Mail put this in their "femail" section. Are they saying this is a girls' car?

malcolm · May 29, 2008

dpeilow said:
Are they saying this is a girls' car?

Ah what a merry can of worms you've opened here!

Rosie Boycott is a Mail staff writer with quite a wide brief within the Femail section.

ROSIE BOYCOTT | Search Results | Mail Online

But now you mention it, British ladies do seem to have different tastes in cars:-

It's The Ladies Car - The Hyundai That's Sexier Than A Porsche!

Something which tends to cause angst amongst the fellas :smile:

Standard SLK - Ratio of female to male owners? [Archive] - MBClub Forums

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