Paging the froggies

French-registered car parked in our street - nothing unusual about that
but this one has RED plates with silver characters: two letters - three
numbers -two letters. What's that about then?

 

or, as DT is in the Channel Isles, a car bought in France "duty free for
export" and has yet to be registered in CI.

http://plaque.free.fr/f_e.html - bought prior to 10-04-2009 according to
that website

 

Nope, 2L/3N/2L is the new scheme. See
<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaque_d'immatriculation_française>

 

that does not appear to be silver letters on a red base

 

"
Les véhicules hors taxe — jusqu'au 14 avril 2009 :
Concerne les touristes étrangers venant en France ou les Français
habitant dans les zones franches de Haute-Savoie et du Pays de Gex
(Ain). Leurs véhicules achetés ou loués sur le territoire français
n'ont pas acquitté la TVA. Ils ont des plaques rouges TT « transit
temporaire » et caractères argentés ou blancs.
"

 

which is the *old* scheme I referenced, nonextant since April 2009

ofnut's use of the words "nope" and "new" gave me the impression he was
saying I was wrong.

 

Oh I wasn't commenting on your little private disagreement, just
picking the bits out from his link that explained the OP's question.

 

At the risk of sounding pedantic...

Not everyone here speaks french...

I got 90% of that, however...

 

OI! ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?

This /is/ a *uk* newsgroup, old boy - and translations of the native
pidgeon are expected, you know.

 

Blimey, you're in a bad mood, aintcha?

 

Babelfish, ****, can you use it?

The fl askin questions in this thread would have at least enough to
get the jist of that, given the context. It's not rocket science.

 

<sigh>

Pidgin.

My pedantic hero has feet of clay ;-)

 

Scroll down a bit, below the police cars on the right.

Thank you all, it is the new temporary plate for vehicles in transit.
Left-hand drive though so may or may not be going to be registered here
in Jersey. Supplied by an outfit called Peugeot Open-Europe. Has French
insurance 'disc' on windscreen so may just be a visiting French family
(we're getting a helluva lot of them lately due to exchange-rate, I
guess).

 

PSA (and probably others) do a scheme whereby 'merkins/Aussies/etc can
fly in, lease a brand spankin' car to their chosen spec for a couple of
months, then hand it back at the end. During that time, because it's in
the name of non-EU residents, it's on tax-free plates.

Manufacturer gets a near-new car for the approved-used sales stock.
Tourist gets transport much cheaper than a rental, with much less
restriction on where they can go.
Everybody's happy.

 

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