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6th March 2022, 09:27 | #1 |
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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.
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6th March 2022, 16:24 | #2 |
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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?
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6th March 2022, 16:54 | #3 |
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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.
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6th March 2022, 19:43 | #4 |
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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.
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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!
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7th March 2022, 08:25 | #6 |
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Before I put my Private Plate on my 75 had the Registration Code of RL and originally came from SMC of Uxbridge.
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7th March 2022, 11:37 | #7 |
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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.
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Ah, here you go
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