Which License Plate do you prefer?

[ImJustKCClone]

Too funny...the news just showed a clip of Gov Reynolds unveiling the plates at the state fair. She's grinning away, they pull the curtain off, then you hear a kind of collective moan from the crowd. Reynolds does her best to keep the smile on her face, but it was pretty clear the crowd was completely underwhelmed.

 

[Rods79]

Plates are usually viewed from 20' away or further. Little dinky details such as the above one will look like a child's faint scribbling at 20'. Not professional.

That is true of pretty much any license plate with any graphic. All you'll clearly see from 20' away is color, proportion, and numbers, maybe the state/county text if it has a good contrast (but some states even get that wrong).

All three of the designs I-DOT released have dinky details executed poorly. Two have a terrible mis-match color scheme with generic proportion.

IMO it is not professional designing plates with dinky details when they clearly can't. If dinky details have to be on it, let someone do them well or leave them off.

 

[jdoggivjc]

My opinion? Put the bottom third of Great Wide Open and the top third of City/Country, and the middle third of Flying Our Colors, and that might be a decent plate.

 

[jdoggivjc]

For the record, City/Country reminds me of this

And Flying Our Colors looks too much like this:

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

I like the green one.

 

[everyyard]

None of above.

 

[TOFB4ISU]

They are all an improvement but agree there are too many red white and blue plates out there already. Great wide open would be better if the fields had more of a Grant Wood feel, a la the Stone City painting.

 

[CYdTracked]

C gets my vote but all 3 options are not better than the current design. You'd think that someone with some artistic skills could come up with a better option than this crap.

 

[cyclones500]

My opinion? Put the bottom third of Great Wide Open and the top third of City/Country, and the middle third of Flying Our Colors, and that might be a decent plate.

So, something like this? (Imperfect rendering, I did it quickly):

 

[bringmagicback]

Why is there an antique tractor on that guys plate sitting alone in a field? Makes no sense

 

[Farnsworth]

The Iowa State vanity plates don't have counties do they?

 

[NetflixAndClone]

I don't see the need for it either but I am sure law enforcement has some dumb reason they need it just like they think we need front license plates.

I could be wrong but isn't a reason for front plates is because it provides a good surface for cops to point their radar guns at? I hope Iowa can drop the front plate.

 

[wxman1]

I could be wrong but isn't a reason for front plates is because it provides a good surface for cops to point their radar guns at? I hope Iowa can drop the front plate.

I believe that along with identification without being behind the vehicle are the two biggest arguments for it. My opinion is many other states do just fine without you can too.

 

[jkclone]

I believe that along with identification without being behind the vehicle are the two biggest arguments for it. My opinion is many other states do just fine without you can too.

Another side effect that probably isn't important to many is gas stations will likely all go to prepay only. There aren't many left but with the skimmer concerns there are still a significant amount of people who like to pay inside.

 

[Stewo]

Looks like the city/country plate is running away as the choice right now. Might as well start getting used to it.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

All my vehicles have ISU plates so I really don't have an opinion on the generic plates.

When I buy my next vehicle in a month, definitely want to switch to custom ISU plates. I had just an ISU license plate border and got pulled over on the interstate for it covering part of the county.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

When I buy my next vehicle in a month, definitely want to switch to custom ISU plates. I had just an ISU license plate border and got pulled over on the interstate for it covering part of the county.

That is so bogus. I could understand if part of the license number or the registration tag was covered, but pulling you over for the county being partially obscured is ridiculous.

Edit: the officer must have been a Hawkeye fan...

 

[isufbcurt]

When I buy my next vehicle in a month, definitely want to switch to custom ISU plates. I had just an ISU license plate border and got pulled over on the interstate for it covering part of the county.

The other nice thing about ISU plates is there is no county name on them, unless I live in Cyclones county.

 

[amestoplease]

saw this on facebook.

 

[mdk2isu]

? Right lane probably 60-75% of the time.

80 to 235 is a left exit as a simple example. That one I have mastered.

I was curious so I counted the exits in the DM Metro using Google Maps. Used the Waukee exit, Grand Ave Exit, 36th St Exit in Ankeny and the east Altoona exit as the edges. There are 41 exits on I35/80 and I235 by my count. The only exit not in the right lane that I could see is onto 235 east from I80. So 97.5% of them are in the right lane.

The % would go up if you want to include the Highway 5 bypass in your numbers.