Wisconsin issues over 600,000 new license plates each year. The A plates have been issued for nearly eight years. Up until April of 2017, all license plates in Wisconsin had six characters.

Wisconsin DMV license plates at a glance: Wisconsin plates had a set format of six characters since 1986 and reversed from letters to numbers (WRZ-999 to 123-ABC) in 2000.

MADISON, Wis. -- Look around at Wisconsin license plates and you'll likely notice a common theme. The standard-issue ones all start with the letter 'A.' Well, not anymore. After almost eight years ...