Why the ugly bumper stickers?

[@ivanduc72]

It's always funny to see how non swiss people reacts to our particularities 😀 ..you can find the smaller sticker, which is less ugly and invasive (visually speaking). Always great to watch your videos! 🙂

[@AmericameetsSwitzerland]

Glad you enjoyed it! There is actually a regulation that requires them to be that large white oval whit black letters. I don't think anyone cares though.🤣

[@ivanduc72]

@@AmericameetsSwitzerland that's why, if you look carefully, we swiss tend to attach those stickers where they can not "damage" the look of the car.. eheheh! 😀

[@Simone-tj4zm]

I live in the italian part of switzerland and many of my italian friends asked about the sticker, they think that it is an ugly swiss requirement to have one, while as you said it's instead required by other countries when you travel abroad. in the northern part of Italy you mostly only see swiss cars with the sticker because all EU plates have the country code since decades ago. nice video :)

[@matthiasmartin1975]

Well, it's only needed because the Italians are being difficult about it, everyone else is being reasonable. The joke about it being about "CHeese" was a good one.

[@alexandergutfeldt1144]

The license plate with the integrated county code is a EU (European Union) thing not an 'global' international agreement .. and since not every country in Europe is in the EU, there are still many countries that have the mandatory white stickers.

[@Leenapanther]

I've seen a few Ukrainian cars recently. They are not in the EU, but their number plates are designed like the one from the EU.

[@GrayMan7070]

I am Swiss in Colorado and have one on my Car :) What is the meaning of Confoederatio Helvetica? The letters CH appearing on Swiss cars and in internet addresses stand for the Latin words Confoederatio Helvetica, meaning Swiss Confederation. Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in Switzerland in 1957.

[@FrodoFreeman]

As always a very nice Video! This time i knew what was about the CH but i never spend a thought of why these ugly stickers are so common. Thanks for that quite useless but very interesting Piece of information! Greetings from ZH and keep up the good work!

[@AmericameetsSwitzerland]

Thank you for watching!

[@obelixzh]

Because the sticker is so ugly I have a magnetic one which I only put when I go to Italy

[@AmericameetsSwitzerland]

Yeah, that's the way to do it.

[@fenrirComes]

Also a UK sticker is used for UK cars going to the continental land without the new plates that were created pre-Brexit.

[@elizabethferguson5336]

My US neighborhood acronym is CH. I'm getting me a Swiss CH bumper sticker!😄

[@AmericameetsSwitzerland]

🤣 Great idea.

[@christianfausch4615]

Great video again! I would really enjoy a live read ad for Ben&Co coffee in your future videos😄

[@seanpalmer2050]

? International road racing from back in the day. I have a GB decal on the back of my classic British sportscar. There is meant to be one for each country. Is this news?

[@AmericameetsSwitzerland]

"Is this news" In many places of the world, these were never used. The meaning behind them has been forgotten, and they are viewed as just another bumper sticker. It's not news, but it is interesting for those of us who never needed them. Thank you for watching!

[@airo30]

It doesn't matter if we have the sticker on our car or not. All over europe they use the EU license plate with the blue EU sign. Only switzerland has a completely white plate... But yeah, they are ugly. BUT! There are magnetic ones. So everytime I cross the border to a foreign country, I put the magnet on my car and everytime I cross the swiss border again, I take it away.

[@swissarmyknife7670]

its still stupid and we should just put it on the licensplate. or at least lobby the EU to accept the flag as such.

[@JanMleziva]

Switzerland doesnt have that blue EU flag with countrycode because it is not in the EU. Easy as that.

[@airo30]

@@JanMleziva Ukraine isn't in the EU but their license plate has the EU design, just without the the star circle, but with their flag... So it would be possible to change the design.

[@JanMleziva]

@@airo30 sorry, so you say they have EU design which is actually different from EU design? Yes, that's true. Also their blue color is differentAnd that is why they also have stickers with international code. I see a lot of these cars now in Prague. In fact there are at least three different UA license plate styles that I saw recently in Prague

[@Motherof6pack]

I loved your description of each language group! Hilarious! Again, great video. You make the most boring topic very interesting. Ever thought about teaching school? :)

[@travelvideos]

I remember driving like 20 years ago and border guys asked me to buy that sticker from them. Whatever, hope you enjoyed your cig money, fellas.

[@AmericameetsSwitzerland]

Haha. Yep