N0t Gr8: List of Unprintable Rude License Plates Revealed

A list of banned vehicle number plates that are considered too rude for the road has been revealed.

New registrations are released in March and September in the U.K. and the vehicle licensing authority, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), has to make rulings over whether they breach guidelines of good taste.

Personalized number plates are big business, last year netting the DVLA over $209 million, The Sun reported, but they still have to stick to standards of taste.

This month, new '68 registration number plates have been released and more than 400 were banned for fear of causing offense. In the main, they contain swear words and sexual acts, as well as crude nicknames.

Automatically forbidden are any number plates with ASS, BUM or SEX or ones that combine homophobic or racist slurs. Other four letter and five letter combos are also banned, such as TO** SER, SL** UTS and BO** MBS, as well as ones that include B** UMS, FA** RTY and CR** APS.

But on the blacklist this month are BL68 JOB, OR68 ASM, SH68 ERS and FA68 NNY. Also banned are DO68 GER, MU68 GER as well as MY68 COX, MY68 MUF and MY68 NOB.

The DVLA stocks around 50 million personalized registrations, with prices starting at £280, although plates that spell out common names can sell for thousands.

Earlier this year when the March '18' plates were reintroduced plates omitted from circulation included 'BO18 CKS' and RO18 BER.

Others that got removed were AT18 TTY, AD18 OLF, **18 OOB, BB18 JOB, BO18 CKS, BR18 ERY, CC18 BNP, PU18 BES and, RO18 BER.

However some do slip through the net. In March this year, the number plate CU11NNT went on sale for £6,000 ($6,730) after it dodged the banned list from 2016 before the DVLA added it to the prohibited list, The Sun reported.

In a statement, a DVLA spokesman said: "Many people enjoy displaying a personalized registration number and there are over 50 million registrations available on our website

"The vast majority of registration numbers are made available but the agency holds back any combinations that may cause offense, embarrassment or are in poor taste," the Evening Standard reported.