mikdys

I definitely prefer the silver letters painted on the front grill, but I'm not so sure about the rear plate.

Any opinions?

J_D

Black and silver plates are only for cars registered before 1970 or something like that, so wouldn't be legal, but black and silver does look good.

Adam K

people with black and silver plates annoy me. i'm not sure why.

it just seems a bit "look at me, i think i'm special."

the same goes for people who have fonts on their numberplate that are unreadable with squashed letters and numbers to make them look like something they aren't.

m1bjr

Makes it look like a roadster though.

Like an early Spitfire or something.

NineBolts

I don't know why perhaps it the chrome on old cars that make the black and silver plates look correct. but it's a modern car so needs modern plates.

Designers design the cars with plates, they just look wrong when they have funny plates on them.

E4RTH WORM JIM

You will get stopped every time a copper see you with this.
IMO standard plates look far better. Maybe a 3/4 for the front only so you don't draw to much attention.

jonner

Stick to the modern plates...

ian_6301

Rear plate looks like you're trying too hard.

Personally, I love the front grille, but it's illegal too, so as above, a plate would need to go on to keep you the right side of the law. Round this way, there is no way I'd get away with it, as the plod use an ANPR car on my route to work about once a month... That said, the font is pretty damned close to the real thing and at a glance, it'd be hard to tell the difference between this and a plate on the grille.

I do love the clean look of the nose without the plate on there, but I'm afraid that the new badges aren't doing it for me. Did you have any pics of it in the transition stage (ie: no badges at all)?

mikdys

Thanks for the replies - maybe I'll stick with the more modern type plates (but with the front one painted onto the grill as in the second photo - that much is staying as is).

I like the S badges though - I had already decided that. I've no idea what the car would look like without the badges as these are stuck over the mounting holes for the OEM ones and getting rid of these holes would have cost a lot more paintwise (I had to get the front bumper resprayed to lose 6 of the 8 OEM plate mounting holes - Honda don't take any risk of a number plate falling off do they ).

martin j

I hadn't even noticed the badges.