You can’t. By CA law, you must display the dealer’s paper plate, and have a temporary reg. stuck on the inside of your front windshield, until your actual plates and registration arrive. Stupid, I know. I hate the fact that I’ll be driving my new car for about a month, doing free advertising for the car dealership.…

Accidents happen. I was more annoyed at the suprememodellista instagram picture. Anyone who uses that many hash tags is a way bigger douche than someone who has the vanity plate PRESTIGE.

The genius among dumbasses is the guy who you can hear saying “hey is it in gear”? when they flipped the car.

Easy on the “car still running” thing. It was a teenager driving the thing, not a racecar driver. Teenager thoughts: “Oh, SHIT! Get out of the car. SHIT! If I can get it rolled over and drive home, maybe dad won’t notice....FUCK! What? The engine is on? Great. HEY! Why is it rolling? GRAB IT! Oh, SHIT!”

Not this bad.

Prestige is the dealership. It does not match the font of any license plate.

That’s a dealer plate, quick google search shows a couple of places in the SoCal area called Prestige. The rest I completely agree on.

I’m surprised none of these cars have what a 32 year old Thunderbird had... an inertia-activated switch on the fuel pump power.

Agree with you On all counts, but that car was sold at “Prestige Lexus,” the dealership. Cars are sold new here with no plates on them. It’s not a custom tag.

No, two caucasian kids with relatively banal local names.

It's the name of the broker/leasing company.

He put it out of it’s misery.

You know what’s a good fix for #2? Getting a BMW M4 instead of the RC-F. Seriously, in a major accident if airbags deploy or something serious happens the positive terminal connector on a BMW explodes to cut power. I love how Mercedes locks up the breaks, unlock doors, etc, Audi warns you of imminent crashes....and…

I can maybe see it still Running. In the video it’s tagged RC300H (tough I don’t think you can actually get this in the US), so maybe the the gas engine had shut down. Also, if you rolled and climbed out the bottom window, it might not be possible to reach up and hit the engine stop button.

Had a couple kids in a ‘borrowed’ buick do some Evel Kneivel style action into a field next to my house a long time ago... heard the ‘thump’ indoors. Waded out there through a dense pad of briars to find a Skylark sitting on it’s frame under a tree, driver disabled, passenger alert but confused, and car purring along…

Only car I ever totalled suffered the indignity of chugging along in fifth gear for another five feet at a near stop before I went “Oh...”, declutched, and shut it off. If it wasn’t chugging it might have taken longer, I kind of got shaken back out of “Crash! Evasive maneuvers!” mode.

Thanks for clarifying, simply because I’m on the other coast.

Ah, yes. “Prestige” in Glendale. It’s not a franchised new car dealership, but a some-kind-of-broker-or-leasing-or-who-knows-what type of establishment. (Others in the area have similar douchey/sleazy names such as “Platinum,” “Unique,” and so on.)

The font on the license plate seems to match Prestige Auto Mart an Auto Broker in Glendale, you tell them what you want and they find it and negotiate