A NEW list of banned number plates has been revealed, following the launch of the "23" plate for vehicles.
SH23GER, OR23ASM and BO23OCK are all on the banned list, alongside number plates celebrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
DVLA bosses rushed to draw up the plates after the "23" plate was launched for vehicles registered from the beginning of this month.
New cars are allocated plates containing the last two digits of the year they are registered in, meaning vehicles first hitting the road this year will have "23 plates".
Although new registration plates often boost sales, they also give naughty motorists an opportunity to distract other drivers with lewd combinations.
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Censors meeting at the DVLA's base in Swansea agreed that PE23VRT, SC23TUM and FA23NNY are all likely to take drivers' eyes off the road.
Plates believed to signal gang affiliations or terrorist sympathies, like JH23HAD, have also been on put on the list.
With an eye to the times, the DVLA has banned CO23ONA and YE23WAR, alongside plates spelling out racial slurs.
The list became public after Carwow experts handed DVLA bureaucrats a Freedom of Information request.
A Carwow spokesperson told This is Money: "Few drivers are likely to want to be told to GO23 HEL or EA23 POO by the car in front, for example, while nobody wants to share the road with a BA23 TRD, a PS23 CHO, a TO23 ERR or an AA23 OLE.
"BO23 OKS and MU23 DER are also likely to cause perennial offence.
"More recent events have led to plates such as RU23 UKR, NO23 RUS and YE23 WAR being suppressed, however, alongside CO23 ONA and EU23 BAD."
The DVLA reserves the right to ban plates at a later date, should a rude one slip through the bi-annual list.
Carwow's Hugo Young said: "While few would argue against the suppression of offensive number plates, the biannual meetings where DVLA staff sit down and deliberately come up with rude combinations must be one of the highlights of the organisation’s calendar."
Brits have spent around £2billion on personalised plates since the DVLA started selling them in 1989, with 400,000 bought each year.
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It comes after the Sun revealed the jaw-dropping prices Britain's rudest private plates are fetching online.
ORG45M sold for £150,000 on the Regtransfers website, while F15TME went for £11,246.
Last year we were the first to lay hands on the DVLA's "22" blacklist, with BE22END, VA22GNA and BU22SHT banned from the road.