The world's most expensive number plates

2008 has been a year for new records in the marketplace or personalised number plates.
In the U.K. the numbers F1 and S1 sold for £440,000 and £397,500 respectively.
However these amounts are dwarfed by the sale of the registration number "1" in Abu Dhabi which brought an amazing bid of $14.3 million.
This beats the previous record, also held by Abu Dhabi which was $6.8 million for the number "5".
These tremendous amounts were achieved before the current economic downturn really took hold, it is unlikely these records will be broken in 2009.

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Tony Lancaster


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Personalised Number Plates Information

Due to the unique nature of private number plates, for example "car registrations are not items of property in their own right. They are assigned, and may be withdrawn by the Secretary of State. They are assigned to the vehicle rather than its keeper" and many of the car registrations we have available to us involve a third party, therefore unless the registration you are interested in is one of our own stock cherished number plates it is subject to current availability. Similarly we rely on these third parties to inform us that it has been sold. If you see "your" cherished number plate on our website and it should not be there, we would welcome your feedback so that we can rectify the mistake. With regard to the Distance Selling Regulations, we must notify you that as the contract will begin as soon as payment is made, the cooling off period and right to cancel will no longer apply. This website contains cherished number plates from our own stock,car registrations where we are acting as an agent and unissued government stock.We reserve the right to withdraw from sale or change the price of any private number plate without notice. All personalised number plates on this website are subject to availability, D.O.T. transfer fee and some are also subject to V.A.T. at the rate currently set by the government. Additional costs are sometimes applicable for the transfer of personalised number plates to N.Ireland... E.&.O.E.

Proprietor : Datana Ltd Registered in England No 3100825, Vat No 675212635

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