Another reason why I left California, $450 a year for a civic, WTF? At least in Texas with all the out of state fee's I had to pay $200, next year only $54. As for the smog thing, California has the right to pull anybody over because they don't pass smog. For all they know you can live in California, and still haven't gotten the plates. Any state you enter, you have to obey the law. But California is just plain stupid, Arnold is not a dumb ass, he is Austrian. I felt bad though when he got egged, what makes it worse is if he wasn't running for governor, he probably would have kicked that guys ass.