[Atheist]

I don't live in Trinidad anymore but one thing I thought was particularly weird about the country was that nobody knows what model year there car was produced. I know this sounds strange... but it's true. Let me explain. The license plate on all cars start with the letter P (trucks start with a T) and then is follow by 2 letters and 4 numbers. So for instance, the first car registered would be PAA0001 followed by PAA0002 until PAA9999 is reached and then the third letter is incremented and the numbers start over again: PAB0001. When I left Trinidad, the letters were up to PCD I believe. People equate a particular point in time with the letters on the license plate. So if someone has a car for sale, they will say it's a "PAO" or a "PBZ". Hence a "PA..." would be older than a "PB...". What makes this even more strange is the majority of cars in Trinidad are brought to the island used so when the car is registered (and thus given a license plate number) doesn't necessarily equate to when the car was built.

Check out this list of cars for sale. As you can see, not a single mention of the model year of the cars.

It makes absolutely no sense to me in the least. How on earth can people buy a car without even knowing how old it is?

Strange but true. Does your country or region do anything weird like that?

[Laminar]

Nope.

[Dakarʒ]

In Soviet Russia, car lists you!

[turtle777]

Maybe the cars ar so old, it can not even be expressed in numbers

-t

[osiris]

I dunno. Algebra was never my best subject.

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

In Soviet Russia, car lists you!

ugg

[Dakarʒ]

Someting wrong, Comrade?

[Rumor]

Never thought those were funny to begin with.

That phrase has been beaten to death.

Where the hell did it originate anyways?

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by Rumor 

Never thought those were funny to begin with.

I realize that, I was just using it as an excuse to use more Russian terminology.

Originally Posted by Rumor 

That phrase has been beaten to death.

Where the hell did it originate anyways?

It was part of Yakov Smirnoff's act. To illustrate how bad/backward Russia was.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Rumor 

That phrase has been beaten to death.

In Soviet Russia, phrase beats you to death.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by osiris 

In Soviet Russia, phrase beats you to death.

hahahaha
Nice.

[OldManMac]

In the States, the title document lists the year of the car, and license plates are used primarily as a road tax and for police identification. Some states also have a number of different plates, so if you want to pay $25 extra to support a University or some other cause, you can get about a half dozen different styles, as well as personalized plates, on which you can put a short message or name, etc. (usually up to 7 letters). My plate is OPAKARL (Opa being a German word for grandpa). In most states the plate also transfers when you buy a different vehicle, so the plate is not registered permanently to one car. If I buy a new car next year, I'll keep the plate and whoever buys my old car will have to get his/her own plate from the Secretary of State. The plates here have nothing to do with denoting what year car it's attached to either. They're usually in some alphanumeric order.

[ort888]

In my country, a car's value is determined by the length of time it takes a cabbage to roll down the hood.

[mitchell_pgh]

In my "country," the value of your vehicle is determined by the number of rifles you can transport in your back window multiplied by the number of times the vehicle has been "mudding" in the past six months.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ort888 

In my country, a car's value is determined by the length of time it takes a cabbage to roll down the hood.

I my country, the value of your car is determined by how fast it's stolen in the hood

-t

[Kerrigan]

In my country, the value of a car company is determined by private equity firms.