Aaron Robinson: Across Europe on a Hot Date with a Citroën ID19

The oddest thing about registering a car in Germany is that they stamp your license plates right there in the Kraftfahrzeug-Zulassungsstelle, which is the Deutschland DMV.

After you’ve paid the tax and collected your green-tinted Kraftfahrzeugschein and Kraftfahrzeugbrief (title and registration), a clerk picks a pair of blanks off a shelf containing all of Germany’s various shapes and colors of plates. He or she arranges blocks of numbers and letters in a small hydraulic press, steps on a foot pedal to activate the machine, and then feeds the stamped plates through an automated hot-roller that prints black ink on the raised letters. You give the clerk 30 euros and you get back a pair of plates that are as warm as a couple of freshly baked baguettes. READ MORE››

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