Reg Plate News – Australia

If immigrants arrived from Mars, after a few years of jokes about their being aliens they would fit right in and lead the rude remarks when the Venusians turned up. But we go all tense and tribal on the roads.

People with tiny convertibles, the automotive equivalent of the little black dress, hate four-wheel-drivers, basically because they feel uncomfortable sharing the road with what look like monster trucks. And the four-wheel-drive owners hate that cars running on soy lattes fit into parking spots smaller than their in-car TVs.

Average Australians who think a bog standard number plate is the only personal identity statement anybody needs loathe bores with so many opinions they need to express them all over their car. While people who really believe stickers demanding more money for (insert name of impossible-to-achieve-cause here) are rational policy statements cannot understand why other drivers never honk in support.