Ecosse car stickers

[skyeman]

Why do Scottish motorists display a flag of St Andrew with Scotland written in FRENCH (Ecosse)?! Why not Gaelic?

[ugly_bob]

Probably because when they stick them on, they are going to France

[Toureman]

Ecosse is the name of a company that specialises in tuning Peugeot cars, but is based in Scotland, I think, They probably give their stickers out free, was the one you saw on a Peugeot?

[Playbill]

Ecurie Ecosse was a motor racing team formed in Scotland in the 1950's. They raced Jaguars with wins at Le Mans and many other races. I have seen the Ecurie Ecosse stickers on other cars since then. Perhaps they are motor racing fans.

[ianess]

It's all to do with the "Auld Alliance" when the Scots and the French waged war on the English. Nowadays it's just done to wind the Sassenachs up!

[SurreyGuy]

I've just been in my local Halfords and they've got TONS of them! And Wales stickers, and England ones!

[kepla]

Dunno who Halfords are hoping to sell Scottish and Welsh ones to - just how many cars are made in Scotland or Wales these days ?

[jcr1977]

Either way maybe it helps us Sassenachs to identify a potential death trap (in the words of your fellow kinswoman Ms Foulds Wood)!

Just in the same way that the MOT recently issued a new scheme to identify poor drivers in England by issuing flags, white with a red cross, signifying an inability to drive, which must be prominently displayed whilst driving around. Preferably a souped up Nova.

[kramer81]

Its when you take your car to france. A frenchman is probably less likely to ram a scot off the road than an englishman.

People probably never get round to taking them off.