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If you're planning on purchasing a brand new motor this year and hoping it will come with a creative number plate, think again.
This year, drivers will be hitting the road with '25' registrations - but the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) won't allow them to any display vulgar or offensive wordplay, which is probably for the best really, as I'm sure you can imagine the spike in road rage incidents that would cause.
Brits aren't allowed to whizz around the roads with a reg which sports a combination of letters and numbers which spell out anything indecent.
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So, the DVLA produces a list of banned registration plates twice a year - in March and September - for newly manufactured vehicles.
Each one has to have it's own combination of digits and letter, but none of them can allude to subjects such as crime, racism, politics or religion. But they can also be vetoed by the DVLA for being too rude, insulting, inappropriate, or referencing something that could cause offence or embarrassment, too.
And as the number '5' is widely used to replace the letter 'S' on number plates, I'm sure you can appreciate how the three letters which will come after '25' could end up spelling out something eyebrow-raising.
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So although you might have been looking forward to cars with variations such as AS25 HOL and PU25 SYY being stuck in front of you in traffic, it won't be happening as they've made the banned list.
Other combinations which are banned in 2025 include BA25 TRD, PE25 RVT and VA25 GNA - and I'm sure you don't need us to explain why.
Speaking of this year's banned list, Mark Trimbee, CEO of Regtransfers, said that 25' plates opened up a whole new world of possibilities for shocking combinations.
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"It’s always entertaining to see some of the plates deemed inappropriate by the DVLA, but there are also those that remind us why this is a necessary process," he said. "Personalised number plates are an excellent form of self-expression, but they shouldn’t be used to display genuinely harmful messages or views.
"As well as the usual sex and violence references, there are those subtle combinations that don't seem to convey a clear meaning at first sight.
"With a little thought, however, we see how numbers such GB25 BAD, GB25 BOM, and GB25 SHT could seem to convey anti-British sentiments that might offend some.
"To ban or not to ban is obviously a bit of a balancing act."
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So, here's the full list of all the banned reg plates for 2025, which are sure to start your New Year off with a good laugh.
The full list can be found below, with hundreds making the banned list.
In the registrations, the asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that stands for any character that may appear in that position, with the other characters in the potential reg being the offensive part: