sevfiv Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Want to give the Texas license plate an extreme makeover?Starting today at noon, when the Texas Department of Transportation will ask residents to vote on the next license plate.Residents will be able to select from five choices for the state's next general issue license plate. Four will be new designs. If you like the current plate, you may vote for it.To vote, go to www.txdot.gov .''We're trying to listen to what our customers are saying,'' said Rebecca Davio, TxDOT's director of Vehicles, Title and Registration. "In case Texans really like the existing plate, they can choose that."Why change the plate at all, you may ask? Well, it's a matter of math.The current cowboy-space shuttle-moon design was introduced in 2000. Since then, TxDOT has manufactured about 31.5 million sets of those plates.The plate is fine. But as the state grows in population, so does the demand for license plates and TxDOT is about to run out of possible number and letter combinations using the six-digit sequencing system, Davio said.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/5511338.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 We will get used to it. Change is good. I had to crack up at the funny comments others made on that chron article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 (edited) Yeah, those guys generally remind me of hicks considering their simplistic view of some things.Edit: I voted for the "Lone Star Texas" plate. I think its nicer looking, but I'm not overly fond of the designs offered. Edited February 4, 2008 by ricco67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Here's the link to the poll:http://apps.dot.state.tx.us/services/vehic.../vote_plate.htmI like the traditional plate the best, but none are amazing - looks like Lone Star Texas is winning so far with 1528 votes.Edit - all the sites are off and on it seems - must be an overload of traffic for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwilson Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I like the fact that they are moving to seven digits. More choices for vanity plates now. Though I'm not sure I'd get one unless I could have it day "GUN RUNR". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Looks like TxDOT runs their website just like their highways....can't handle the traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I voted for "My Texas". The Space Shuttle ties Houston in nicely. My #2 is "Traditional Texas". All after that are terrible, especially "New Texas" and "Lone Star Texas". Those look like they were designed by the Midwest meth-addict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I voted for "Traditional Texas". Compared to that the other choices seemed a bit overwrought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VelvetJ Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 My Texas!I can't seem to make out any Houston buildings on the 'New Texas' plate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 ^Yeah, odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 It's pretty clearly San Antonio (Tower of Americas), then Dallas (4 distinct Dallas towers), randome shapes, and then Austin's skyline before the Frost was built.You'd think at least ONE of Bank of America, Transco, Pennzoil, Heritage Plaza, Astrodome, Esperson, old Gulf, etc... would have made the cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 That {New Texas} is pretty damn weak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 You can vote twice per computer.I voted for My Texas and Lone Star Texas though i'm not too thrilled about any.New Texas is a disappointment.. a fake skyline conglomeration is pointless... I had read about it yesterday, had hopes for it.. but ugh.. really hope it doesn't win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 New Texas looks like a silhouette of the Baghdad skyline with all those minerettes. I went all Natural, because the rest suck and I am tired of depictions of West Texas (Lone Star). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 IMO, doesn't go far enough. The current size of licence plate may have been adequate back in the early 20th century, when cars seldom exceeded 30 miles per hour. One might have had a fighting chance of actually reading the plate on a passing car, especially one with fewer characters. Maybe my eyes aren't the best in the world, but I'm hard pressed to get more than the first three or four characters on a passing car, even one travelling at the speed limit. Licence plates should be several times their current size, and designed not for vanity, but legibility (as is the case in many European countries.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesuishouston Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Why can't they just keep the old one? I hope they don't actually issue those "Lone Star State" plates. They're winning, but it's horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I don't really like any of them, but I like new Texas the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelguy_73 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 (edited) Natural Texas is my choice, though I'm not really thrilled with it. I think that New Texas is meant to be a variation on the popular State of the Arts plate. But I think it is a bit too 'new' and, much like NM's yellow plates, only looks good with select color cars. Edited February 4, 2008 by travelguy_73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webdude Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Kind of like the new texas, modernish. The worst was that cut and paste of icons all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I'm a gardener, with roots in Central and South Texas.It's easy, Natural Texas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F. Barnes Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) Just my take of what I see, right or wrong makes no difference, would have liked to see the dome out there where that hill is. And make the Williams (Transco) Tower the true beacon of hope it is. What I would like to see is these changes, makes more of a signature for these great landmarks Updated Plate now on DOT site Edited February 5, 2008 by Mark F. Barnes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Just my take of what I see, right or wrong makes no difference, would have liked to see the dome out there where that hill is. And make the Williams (Transco) Tower the true beacon of hope it is.i like how you have the laser turret pointing at the dallas bldgs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 I looked at the designs again - they are all hokey and i hate the fonts.Except for the traditional plate. And it is in third place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I looked at the designs again - they are all hokey and i hate the fonts. All true. Less is better in most cases. All are over the top. Maybe we all need to go to Europe and observe for a week or two to get the real feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonmacbro Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I voted, but to be honest, I wasn't bowled over by any of the designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futureman Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Looks like they updated the plate with the skyline... You can now clearly make out Houston buildings in the plate...From the voting website it says:"* - This image was updated at 5:30 p.m., February 4. Though the composite skyline is similar, we inadvertently posted the wrong image." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F. Barnes Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Definately updated some, must have got some flack for the last one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Are they reading the forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Not a big fan of any of the new choices. I voted for My Texas. I like it better than any of the new designs. The others are way too gimmicky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) The winner w/ 456,685 votes http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5531488.html Edited February 11, 2008 by lockmat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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