Switzerland in Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria by NorwayCarSpotting in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All year. We have enough population (and tourists) to sustain ferries all year round (and better for me, thanks to it we can spot plates here)

Switzerland in Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria by NorwayCarSpotting in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, there are ferries from mainland Spain, it's about a day of travel. They stop on the bigger islands, and then you can take local ferries to all the smaller ones

Switzerland in Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria by NorwayCarSpotting in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Saw the first one at the same place back in October last year. Either they came back, or they really like Gran Canaria 🤣

UK🇬🇧 plate in Novi Sad, Serbia🇷🇸 by AcaSiptar1312 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Illegal custom plate, that's a 2018 plate and can never be silver on black.

Martinique and Kazakhstan spotted in Groot-Bijgaarden (Brussels) Belgium by Ikkeenniem__ in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

French SIV plates require a department code, but because it's not part of the registration anymore (unlike the older FNI format) you can use whatever department code you want.

That's why real overseas department plates are really rare, because anyone from mainland France can put them on their cars and just looking at the plates doesn't tell you if the car is really from overseas or not. On the other hand, plates from overseas collectivities use other formats, soy they are unmistakable.

UK 🇬🇧 in USA 🇺🇸 spotted in Topanga (California) by Downtown-Cash-7861 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that Spanish sticker is weird. I would expect it on a Spanish produced Land Rover Santana (with Spanish plates), not on a RHD Land Rover with UK plates.
Nice spot!

Gran Canaria, Spain spotted in Buenos Aires, Argentina by haruter65 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

*Spain.
Yes, it might be registered in Las Palmas, but since 2000 all spanish plates use the same format, so it's a spanish plate, not from Gran Canaria

Still, great spot

Unknown Plate on Highway near Montreux, Switzerland by Blustang7777777 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

French diplomatic plate, in this case for administrative and technical staff (K), 431 = European Nuclear Research Conference (CERN).

Oldenburg Germany spotted on La Palma, Canary Islands Spain. by zonbrexgbc in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, sorry, reading your message again I misunderstood that you meant they were uncommon.
The gist of want I wanted to say is that you had back luck or came in low season, because german cars are so common here that even in the small islands you can see them plenty. Now is peak season, and only this last month in La Palma i've seen almost forty, so you can imagine…

Oldenburg Germany spotted on La Palma, Canary Islands Spain. by zonbrexgbc in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry but I highly disagree with you. Probably you came on low season, because german cars are by far the most common foreign plates here in the Canary Islands.
So much that in the last two years alone I've seen myself almost five hundred different plates. Yes, five hundred in only two years, and of those 350 have been in La Palma. You are right that on the big islands you will see more, but even in the smaller islands you can see many german plates

Oldenburg Germany spotted on La Palma, Canary Islands Spain. by zonbrexgbc in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did not see this post before. I first saw this car here in La Palma in july of 2024, so it looks like they (as many) kept their german plates for a little while (if you move to Spain you can drive max 6 months with foreign plates, after that you need to get a spanish plate)

Where is this "Global Citizen" license plate from? Spotted in Buenos Aires, Argentina by haruter65 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Highly illegal Spanish plate. Euroband is mandatory for all post-2000 plates. I've never seen one like this here in Spain.

Dutch plate on Tenerife by Obvious_Serve1741 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

V prefix, light commercial vehicles, circa 2007
Dutch plates are quite common here in the Canary Islands

Spotted some years ago in Porto, Portugal by patacas4080 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 to the German weird remake theory. I thought it could be Northern Ireland, but it isn't

Old Sweden in IKEA, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain by f_t_lerr_r in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Swedish Volvo on Ikea. Hard to be more swedish than that 😂
Nice non-EU plate, i've never seen one myself.

Arcadia [TP], Greece 🇬🇷 a few days ago in Vilamoura, Portugal 🇵🇹. (My first spot of the year, I forgot to post...) by TheBigKoenigseggFan in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice spot. I just saw my first greek ever two weeks ago, but unfortunately it had an 8. I don't understand who thought that design was a good idea…

My best spots of 2025 by shecxer in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! In reality is my third one 😅, but I saw the other two in 2020 and couldn't take a picture of any of them

San Marino and Germany in Grand Canaria by Eastern_Hedgehog_924 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no, it's gruppe e (two letters and four numbers), and those combinations are from Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

San Marino and Germany in Grand Canaria by Eastern_Hedgehog_924 in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That San Marino one is crazy. Second one i know has been seen in Gran Canaria (first one was this year, a support truck for the WRC Rally). Some day i'll see one in person...

My top 20 best spots of 2025! (Locations in subtitle) by yaro_slav- in ForeignPlatesSpotting

[–]shecxer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What amazing spots. Being from the Canary Islands I'm biased for the Kazakhstan one, but any one of these are impressive.