Meanwhile, others prefer heavier stuff, in a nice way to bypass the seven-caracter rule.Montreal Vanity Plate Spotting / Facebook Let’s remind ourselves of what happened Friday, June 27, 2018 — the day SAAQ (Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec) launched its new vanity plates and online ordering service: In less time you needed to shout Finally!, the website crashed. That’s how eagerly Quebec drivers were waiting for personalized plates. Once the website was back online the following Monday, no less than 12,000 vanity plates were ordered in just 48 hours for $250 each, plus an annual renewal fee of $35. You think that’s cheap, versus the $310 personalized plates cost in Ontario? Remember that in Quebec, there’s only one plate showing off on our vehicles. After nine months, the rhythm is a lot slower. From August 2018 to this past April, a total of 26,661 personalized plates have been granted by the SAAQ. Our arithmetic shows after the initial boom, more or less 1,500 vanity plates are ordered every monthin Quebec — 82 per cent by men, confirms the SAAQ. Still, since the beginning, it means $7.5 million of revenue for Quebec. And this income would have hit $8 million, if five per ceont of the requests haven’t been refused. Indeed, some 1,381 demands were rejected since the seven characters allowed on Quebec’s plates: Can’t be obscene, scandalous, abusive or offensive, so you won’t see any variant of the F-word, or in French, SALAUD Can’t express sexual ideas, disregards for road safety, or promoting a criminal offence. Forget about ISPEED, 2FAST, FASTER and SNIPER Nor they can’t be a trademark or a “distinctive” name Or can they? Let’s see what we found on the Montreal Vanity Plates Spotting group on Facebook.
Origin: These are the best vanity plates we’ve seen in Quebec