AutoAlex's MX5 Plate

AutoAlex and the Plates Behind Phil Alex Kersten is one of the most recognisable names in UK automotive YouTube. He built his reputation at Car Throttle, where he spent years producing honest, accessible content centred on the kind of cars real enthusiasts actually buy. No supercars, no unobtainable budgets. Just someone who genuinely loved cheap motors and knew how to bring an audience along for the ride. It was his Mazda MX5, affectionately named Phil, that made him a household name in the community. The build series ran across multiple videos over several years, documenting Phil's transformation into a V6-powered, Rocketeer-bodied machine. It accumulated over 100 million views and turned a scruffy MX5 into one of the most famous project cars in British YouTube history. When Alex left Car Throttle in 2022 to launch AutoAlex, Phil came with him, and the audience followed. The Plates For anyone who watched the Phil series from the beginning, N61 FKJ will look immediately familiar. It is the plate that appeared in countless videos and became quietly synonymous with the car itself. A prefix era registration that most of Alex's audience would recognise without a second thought. But the plate with the better story is OPH11L . Spelling out Phil as clearly as a private registration can, it was bought for Alex as a gift by his friends, a gesture that says everything about what that car means to the people closest to him. It now lives on the MX5, which feels entirely right.