Personalised numberplates are hugely popular in the UK, but they're also very divisive things.
We look at one and are either prompted with feelings of admiration at the name or message on the plate, or we dismiss them as being a vanity project and waste of money.
Whatever the protruding thoughts may be, the price that some of these things go for are undeniably impressive. Without further ado then, join us as we boggle at the top most expensive numberplates ever sold in the UK.
For reference, we’ve even calculated what else you could buy with the money, in car terms.
The most expensive numberplates sold in the UK:
1 - 25 O - £518,480
The registration plate 25 O relates to the most expensive car ever sold at auction: the Ferrari 250 GTO. The plate’s £518,480 price tag may be dwarfed by the car’s £30,750,300 final bid, but it’s the most expensive plate sold in the UK yet. According to the DVLA, the plate now resides on an altogether more modern Ferrari - the LaFerrari hybrid hypercar.
The price of the plate could get you ten Audi TT RSs, but personalised plate vendor Regtransfers reckons it’s now increased in value, to £750,000 (fifteen TT RSs).
2 – X 1 - £502,500
Taking a close second place is the registration plate X 1. Little is known about the owner of the plate, but based on DVLA records it is currently in use on a Mercedes CLA purchased within the last three years. The plate fetched its half-million pound price in November 2012.
You could enjoy ten Mercedes-AMG CLA 45s for the amount originally paid for the X 1 numberplate, and estimates suggest it has almost doubled its value since being purchased in 2012 to £1,000,000. It's unknown if the plate ever made its way onto a BMW X1 at any point.
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Nice blog autocar.co.uk. Nice attempt at presenting very clean data of the top 10 most expensive plates in the UK. Anyone know what the current value of plate "SH1" is. Anyway, I read that plate "SH 1" sold for £415,143 in April 2019, as mentioned in a DVLA site like newreg.co.uk, this plate is not much popular than others. I want to know its present value is there any one who would like to answer this???
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