{"id":212,"date":"2010-02-14T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-02-14T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:56:58","slug":"reg-plate-news-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/reg-plate-news-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Reg Plate News &#8211; Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>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.<\/p>\n<p>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. 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