New NYS License Plate Design

[WNYroadgeek]

The State of NY needs some money. Their solution, make every car registered in NYS pay a $25 fee on top of registration for new license plates. When you get your car registered you will be required to pay the fee. It will start with registration of April 2010.

http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/new_york/State_unveils_new_license_plate_design_20091110

[mightyace]

They go from a beautiful current plate to a simpler (read cheaper) new plate reminiscent of New York and Pennsylvania plates of the 1960s and 70s.

The "new" design looked good forty years ago.  Yet another reason not to live in NY state.

[Ian]

Aww, thats a real shame! I love those license plates! They new ones look terrible

[Snappyjack]

Dumb

[cu2010]

The State of NY needs some money. Their solution, make every car registered in NYS pay a $25 fee on top of registration for new license plates.

Yep, their solution...find ways to take taxpayer dollars, as opposed to cutting spending. Sounds like New York for you! 

[agentsteel53]

that is awful!  So much barrel distortion!

[Roadgeek Adam]

Color and design changes - I don't like some of the current one or this one

[Alex]

Looks like the 1970s design reborn...



Ugly! 

[vdeane]

Glad the registration on my car is good until 2011.  Though when I do need to re-register I'll have to pay $20 extra just to keep the same number (as my car is registered to park at my college until 2013).

[D-Dey65]

I think it sucks long enough that I didn't live long enough in New York to get the current edition of New York State plates(which I still think should've had some red mixed in with the white and blue). I once suggested some variations of the Sports or regional plates that contained different colors and backgrounds. I even had some for taxicabs and the Taxi & Limousine Commission that had a Checker cab in the background and black & white checkered stripes on the bottom.

[burgess87]

Glad the registration on my car is good until 2011.  Though when I do need to re-register I'll have to pay $20 extra just to keep the same number (as my car is registered to park at my college until 2013).

Same here . . . my registration is good until August 2011.  The only good thing about this plate is that after 2011, every car will be rocking Sabres colors.   

[Snappyjack]

Mine is good until April of 2011. I don't think I'll be out of this dump by then, but here's to hoping!

And burgess87, I like the icon you have there. Epic Fail indeed.

[TXtoNJ]

I actually kind of like it for the shout-out to the past design.

[Dougtone]

Glad the registration on my car is good until 2011.  Though when I do need to re-register I'll have to pay $20 extra just to keep the same number (as my car is registered to park at my college until 2013).

Same here . . . my registration is good until August 2011.  The only good thing about this plate is that after 2011, every car will be rocking Sabres colors.  

Or if you look at it as orange and blue, cars will be rocking New York Mets, Syracuse Orange, New York Knicks or New York Islanders colors. 

I may just get a New York Islanders speciality license plate when I renew my registration next fall, since I'm not much of a fan of the new design.

[Dougtone]

Here's some follow up to the whole new NYS license plate issue.  Now, it appears that new license plates may not be required as Governor Paterson says he is open to not going ahead with new license plates if other cost cutting measures can be implemented.

For further reading, check out the article at... http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=866106

[D-Dey65]

Looks like the 1970s design reborn...



Ugly!  

I don't know if I'd call them ugly, but they're certainly way too dated. I liked them when they first came out, and the only thing that disappointed me about them was the move of the registration sticker to the windshield. They may've been okay for the 1970's but not now.

[shoptb1]

The State of NY needs some money. Their solution, make every car registered in NYS pay a $25 fee on top of registration for new license plates. When you get your car registered you will be required to pay the fee. It will start with registration of April 2010.

Although I don't like the mandatory $25 registration fee requirement, for some reason...I kind of like the new throw-back plate.  I don't think it's hideous or anything....and at least it's not a autistic rendition like the 'Beautiful Ohio' plates.  Ugghh.

[papaT10932]

I actually like the retro look of these plates. No URL, so that's a plus! I just hope they are embossed and not flat-print.

[cu2010]

I actually like the retro look of these plates. No URL, so that's a plus! I just hope they are embossed and not flat-print.

They're neither, as they're non-existent.

[papaT10932]

They're neither, as they're non-existent.

Perhaps you can clear this up. I've heard conflicting reports. I understand that they will be issued, but as an optional plate. (Which probably means, in a short time, they will become the standard issue).

Fixed quote. Slashes end.  -DTP

[cu2010]

Perhaps you can clear this up. I've heard conflicting reports. I understand that they will be issued, but as an optional plate. (Which probably means, in a short time, they will become the standard issue).

I was under the impression that Gov. Paterson killed it, but I looked more into it.  Apparently they will be issued for new registrations only- vehicles with the current plates on them will keep their current plates.

...which makes even less sense than making them a mandatory issue...

[Snappyjack]

Perhaps you can clear this up. I've heard conflicting reports. I understand that they will be issued, but as an optional plate. (Which probably means, in a short time, they will become the standard issue).

I was under the impression that Gov. Paterson killed it, but I looked more into it.  Apparently they will be issued for new registrations only- vehicles with the current plates on them will keep their current plates.

...which makes even less sense than making them a mandatory issue...

If I remember correctly, on CBS 6 News out of Albany(which I don't have the link to unfortunately), they said that one of the prisons who make the license plates didn't get the memo about them canceling out on the whole new plate deal, and they made them anyway. So the current plan is to, as said, have only new registrants receive and pay for new design license plates.

So it seems that New York will have two different designs of license plates now, for awhile at least.

[SignBridge]

Saw my first one on the road today. I'd forgotten all about them and it caught me by surprise. First of the 3 letters was an F. My registration expires this June, so I'm wondering what the current plan is. Seems to me they should replace them all at once or not at all. It doesn't make sense to have 2 different color plates for the same state for many years to come.

[Hellfighter]

Don't like the new look. 

[papaT10932]

I saw my first one on the road today too. The color scheme is too dark. Instead of navy and gold, they look black and orange. The figures are also too thin and do not contrast well. Although the samples online looked cool, the actual plates are ugly and very hard to read. Law enforcement is going to go nuts, I think, over these.