Like what others speculated, I have a hunch that the change was because of the sun reflecting off of the bare brushed aluminum and hitting the windshield. James Epsey posted some of the original blueprints on DMCHelp, one of which is for the vin plate exactly like mine in the photos section with the DMC logo, etc. Another blueprint was for a black VIN plate with silver text on it without a DMC logo, and the third was for the VIN plates like most of us have on our dashboards. I wonder if any plates were made with the black paint and silver text. Perhaps one of those is floating around out there somewhere. -Patrick C. Vin 1880 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, delorean@xxxx wrote: Now the question is this - why did > the factory change the smart dash VIN plate to the grey or black "boring" one? > These later plates really looks like a fake when compared to the one in the > door. In my opinion, the original with the logo and N. Ireland should have been > used on all cars. > > Best wishes > Stian Birkeland > Norway To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/