Was it not done for New York, given that it is the New York Times? Their plates look fairly decent...
Just checked Brazil and Chile since I didn't remember them being small, and they don't look bad either!
I often wonder what is is about you that you seek to turn every interaction with me on this forum into some sort of petty, picayune pissing match over trifling or non-existent matters.
The New York Times is one of the premiere newspapers in the nation and perhaps the world, founded in 1851. It has won 140 Pulitzer Prizes during its history including three very recent ones, more than any other news publication. It currently has a circulation of 10,360,000 (nice for
@viofo with their recommendation) and has a wide national audience and is read and published around the world, plus online. It is hardly directed towards New Yorkers alone. Similarity, the equally well respected Washington Post is also read nationwide and around the world and is also not directed solely towards Washingtonians.
I know you live inside your insular British Bubble based on so many of your remarks on this forum but it is hard to believe that you really could be this ignorant of these publications and their reach, so I have to assume that this is a another one of your gratuitous challenges over nothing serious. It simply doesn't seem credible that you would really believe a Wirecutter recommendation (which are followed by people around the world) would be done just for New Yorkers because the license plates in the tests they performed happen to be in New York.
As for the issue of Brazil and Chile (and a few other) South American countries plate sizes, again this is a petty gratuitous challenge to my remarks. Either you are again playing games here or your reading comprehension is very poor, as you appear to be ignoring exactly what I said in my post above, which was "
most of Central and South America"
the fact is that smaller plates are the norm in virtually all of the Western Hemisphere including Canada, Mexico, MOST of Central and South America.
Obviously, I was acknowledging that there are some exceptions.
Since you've previously provoked essentially this i
dentical argument two and a half years ago I have to wonder what your motive is in revisiting it again here? Indeed, what I posted below was actually inspired by your numerous "swipes" at the USA for having smaller license plates and implying it is the only nation that does.
I guess you wanted to derail yet another enjoyable thread with more of your paltry nonsense, virtually identical to what you did two and a half years ago. You need to finally stop this sort of behavior.
Dashmellow - December 17, 2022:
I don't know why but for some reason everyone keeps referring to smaller license plates as "US license plates". There are even a couple of members (the usual suspects) here on the forum who look down their noses at "USA" license plates as if they are some sort of unfortunate anomaly unique to the United States. That is far from the truth and so I'd like to set the record straight.
Basically, smaller plates are primarily a Western Hemisphere phenomenon. "USA" size and style plates are the standard in Canada, the US, Mexico, Central America and most of South America. There are some variations in shape and size for some nations, especialy in South America but for the most part they are far smaller than European plates. These style plates are also in use in some locations in the Eastern Hemisphere such as Australia which are slightly larger than US plates but nowhere near the size of European plates. Australia is not the only country in that part of the world to use smaller plates.
The fact of the matter is that more of the world population of automobiles use smaller plates than larger plates.
A few examples:
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Australia
Columbia
December 18, 2022
NZ plates have characters even bigger than UK plates, so it is probably best to just say that American plates are much smaller...
Well, there is a small part of Russia in the Western Hemisphere, but I don't think there are many car licence plates there!
Why just American plates? Didn't you read my post or comprehend it? Maybe it's just your bias showing again?
What I said was that license plates in the
Western Hemisphere are smaller than European plates. This is still correct regardless of the size of NZ plates.
Once again we are treated to another example of your usual nitpicking which so often comes across as some odd sort of micro-trolling. I'll never understand your motives for posts like this.
I have some unpleasant news for you though, Nigel. Far more than some barren territory in eastern Russia, significant parts of the UK are
also within the Western Hemisphere. In fact, I hate to be the one to break it to you but as a resident of Wales, YOU live in the Western Hemisphere!
The zero meridian used on most maps is defined by a line running North to South, passing through one particular point in Greenwich, just to the East of the City of London. If you visit the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, there is a sign and a line marked on the ground where you or a friend can take a picture showing you standing with a foot in each hemisphere.