RX prefixed cars
 

There seem to be a lot of RX prefix cars around, is there a reason for so many registered in Reading?

You see a lot of ex-management and press JLR cars around with O for Oxford (Engineering cars tend to be V plates though), BMW and Minis press and TV loan cars with Y for Yorkshire as their fleets are registered there, is the a similar reason for MGR?

ETA: Oops, wrong forum, I didn’t really mean V8s specifically- Mods move the thread if you can, I can’t see how to.

My ZT is an RX prefix. It was built in Feb 2005 but not registered until Jan 2006 so maybe some of the last cars were bought by a Reading based dealer at a knock down price because they weren't selling?

Mine is RE and that was registered in Reading. In fact I think all cars where the first letter of the two-letter prefix is R were registered in Reading.

The R suffix generally indicates a car sold new by SMC of Slough, although they did have other sites. They were a big MGR retailer back in the day.

Indeed, mine was from there, it still has the key fobs. Back in 06 or 07 they had a brand new unsold ZT V8 up for about £12k, nobody wanted them back then!

Before I put my Private Plate on my 75 had the Registration Code of RL and originally came from SMC of Uxbridge.

The reg no prefixes can cover quite a large area - in the case of R, way beyond Reading. And Writing.


As far as I can remember, there used to be regional DVLA offices or something like that, and each letter covered one of them. Although some of the letters are easy to decode (B - Brum, L - London etc), others were more imaginative - eg G for Kent (Garden of England), V for Gloucester-ish (Severn Vale) and so on.


There are also a lot of BX-registered Rovers and MGs, including my own TF.

Ah, here you go :D

Wouldn't have been this one would it?
https://i.ibb.co/YLT6jV4/Millie-and-Meg.jpg

Do you know, I saw it at the time but cannot recall the colour although I think it was a bright colour. Did they do the V8 in Trophy Blue?