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Plate days

  • Data DfT and DVLA, VEH0160
  • Covers New cars, Great Britain
  • Updated the latest quarter

Every March and every September, a new plate. And every March and September, Britain buys its new cars.

The sawtooth

Each column is a quarter. Darker columns hold a plate month: January to March, and July to September. The pink one is the quietest.

New cars each quarter

    Show the data as a table

    Plate decoder

    The two numbers after the first two letters say when a car was first registered: the year in March, the year plus 50 in September. The current style began in September 2001.

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