What about them?
Well, I just thought this is one of the things I like about Ireland. A small detail, however the car registration plates here give you a very good idea about the age of the car. Their format is [YY]-[CountyCode]-[SequenceNumber], so that for example the one-hundredth-second car registered in Dublin in 1998 would have the following registration number: “98-D-102″ (the number was chosen in a purely random fashion 
). [YY] are the last two digits of the manufacture year of the car - for example even if a 1998 car was imported to Ireland only in 2005, it will still have a “98″ stamp on the plates.
This can be of tremendous value when buying a second-hand car, you can spot the age of the car immediately, so you’ll have a start point for estimating the price. I also like it as it’s a very neat, organized and transparent way of registering cars.
In my case, it has also helped to get familiar with all the car’s models lifecycles. I know for example now that Audi have facelifted their A3 model starting 2003 without even reading a magazine on the subject 
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