License plates

[cakehead 0]

Normal license plates on cars seem to be black text on yellow. But I saw a yellow text on black plate this morning? Is there a special reason for that, anyone know?

[Fattwins 0]

yellow and black means kei type or small car

 

white and green are normal cars.

 

the other ones Ive no idea

[Ocean11 0]

I think the yellow on black means 'gyoumu-you kei' or something, that is, a special kind of license for business use of a kei vehicle. Not too sure about that though...

[NoFakie 45]

Black on yellow is a private kei car (up to 660cc).

 

Yellow on black is a commercial kei vehicle (again up to 660cc). People working for the franchise delivery service Akabou (Red hat?) use kei trucks, for example.

 

Green on white is private car.

 

White on green is a commercial vehicle. Taxis and trucks, etc.

[Ocean11 0]

So there you go!

 

I don't understand the theory of advertising for kei cars. We're sort of in the market for one, but the advertisers aren't giving us much help.

 

For example, there's a TV ad for a certain kei that involves people dancing and jumping around a car with coloured umbrellas. Nowhere in the ad do they say "This car is good because it is a kei, and you would do well to buy it because it drives nicely." Surely most people either want a kei, or not. Advertisers could drop a subtle hint by having at least a license plate on the car in kei colours.

 

But they don't, which leads me to think that advertisers are overpaid and need a good smack in the head.

[mikazooki 0]

perhaps the selling point is, that u can buy a car to match the colour of your umbrella

[zwelgen 0]

or that only ****s buy this car hence all the umbrella fondling, kei-car owning pillocks dancing around.

 

or maybe not