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Front license plate revealed

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might be old news, sorry if I did miss it prior to today.
At the event to day, the red performance Model S have a front licens plate holder - though there is not any licens plate mounted.

go check the live stream from the 22/6 event
 
Smacked in the middle like that would look odd. I would have expected a frame holder off to the side somewhere, kind of like this:

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I belive it is difficult to judge the front plate holder yet.
One will have to see it with a plate mounted and also with som better (high res) photos -

it looked ok to me, here in denmark we can choise between "thin" plates og "high" plates so the form was alright to me :)
 
Smacked in the middle like that would look odd. I would have expected a frame holder off to the side somewhere, kind of like this:

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Wow, that's really ugly. Looks like a dog with it's tongue hanging out, and the off-centre grabs more attention, I think. Up here centre is not noticeable because it is the same on pretty much every vehicle. Although I noticed on my brother's truck the front plate is low and at an angle so you almost can't see it, I wouldn't mind that.
 
Thanks, Doug! That's not so bad...well, once it's got a white plate on it, sure ;-), but I'm not sure it'd look any better if it were lower. That black area looks a bit odd on a lighter colour car anyway. With a light car, I'd want the plate lower, but on a darker car, my state's white plates will look bad anywhere.
 
Is the plastic nose cone swappable then? If you moved to a state that didn't require a front plate, would you just buy the other nose?

My impression was always that it was designed for states without front plates, and the front plate was an afterthought--a "solution" (to a problem they should've designed for initially, IMHO). So I'm not sure there're two noses, and I wonder how much it'd cost to replace it anyway (would the whole front need to be disassembled?).

Now you have me wondering, though...if I could get a different colour nose cone, to make the license plate not look so jarring (again, it's white or barely-off-white in my state), I'd love that. I'd even pay a bit extra. I hope they improve this at some point. Not a big deal, but t'would be nice.