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I don't know why but in Loznica, UK plates can be pretty common.

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Are any of them being driven by British people or just cheap cars that have never been registered back in Serbia?! It was (until Brexit) very popular to buy cars in the UK because they are usually cheaper than the rest of Europe and we have no sales tax on used vehicles (not a problem for export)

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Likely the latter. Registering RHDs was possible in Serbia until mid-2012, so it might be the reason why UK plates are driven around. Most of the plates I see are the 2001 standard, yet there's a 1983 plate I see on almost a daily basis (Y492 NVX).

When I went on to spot an (Reading) RA04-something plate in Loznica, I noticed some text saying MILE ENGLEZ (Mile the Englishman). Likely some Serb went to the UK to buy a vehicle from that guy back in 2004 (because it's cheap right?) and then drove back home. Or, some import could have been organized for the driver.

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I remember that British registered cars had to purchase temporary insurance when they entered Serbia as a tourist because Seebia did not recognise British insurance companies. That was updated only a couple of years ago but maybe some of these cars just renew their temporary insurance permit to avoid registering their cars in Serbia (if they even bither with insurance!).

I would be very surprised if the 04 car was purchased and driven back as a brand new car, new cars here are no cheaper than elsewhere, but our used market is generally very cheap with working legal cars even available for under €100 if you look around. I would say that the car was purchased a few years later either by the owner in the UK (maybe just for a car or maybe was in the UK for some time and brought it home), or the car was bought from somewhere in Europe and no one ever re-registered it along the way - it was common until Brexit for Eastern Eurooeans to buy cars here and drive them home, selling them on to different countries (a Polish friend of mine sold a lot to Ukraine and to Serbia) and he never bothered to register the cars before selling them on

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Option three is related to the first one you said, and that it's likely that there are some of our people working in the UK and then driving home in cars they purchase/rent abroad. This tends to be common among those working in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well, although it's likely that in this case, they just rent expensive and newer cars to look richer.

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I remember seeing a fair amount of Austrian and Swiss registered cars on my 3 days in Serbia back in 2015, enough of them to make me question it to my friends from Obrenovac. Sorry for my late reply, I haven't been very active

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That's common in Loznica as well, obviously. Just add German ones to the "soup".

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