I read an interesting
article about vanity plates this morning at usatoday.com. Within the article was a list of all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) ranked in order by which has the highest percentage of personalized license plates for registered motor vehicles. I was expecting to see California at the top of the list, but it was halfway down. I thought Texas would be near the top, but surprisingly, Texas was in last place! I figured Texans to be kind of vain, but apparently, we are the least vain of any state when it comes to making up wacky sayings for our license plates. Maybe we're too busy wrangling steers and choosing ten gallon hats to be bothered with it.
So want to know which state has the most crazy personalized license plates? Here are the top 6:
| 1 | Virginia | 16.2% |
| 2 | New Hampshire | 14.0% |
| 3 | Illinois | 13.4% |
| 4 | Nevada | 12.7% |
| 5 | Montana | 9.8% |
| 6 | Maine* | 9.8% |
I find it shocking that in Virginia, of all places, 1 of 6 cars has a personal message on the plate. It makes me want to go there just to scan all the cars around me. Sometimes those personalized plates are clever. Other times, I just don't get them. I would
never get one for myself. But that's probably just because I live in Texas.
2 comments:
In Illinois I think it is relatively cheap to keep your vanity plates once you have them ($94 1st time, $13 each year after). I don't know how this compares to Texas or other states. After just living in IL for a year and a half, I can testify that there are a lot of them out there!
Maybe it's easier to get a vanity plate in Virginia? Not sure. But how many combinations of letters and numbers are out there anyway? I guess a lot.
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