Revving it Up: The world’s most expensive car number plate costs…
A two-character car licence plate (P7) offered by Emirates Auction LLC sold for a staggering 55 million dirhams ($15 million or Rs 123 crore), making it the world’s most expensive licence plate ever sold.
The ‘Most Noble Numbers’ charity auction organised by Emirates Auction has set a new world record and entered the Guinness Book of Records!
It is unknown who purchased the record-breaking unique licence plate.
Any automobile registered in the Emirate, whether or not it is a supercar, may use the licence plate that was sold over the weekend.
Staggering prices for VIP licence plates aren’t limited to the Middle East; in Hong Kong, a single-letter “R” plate sold for HK$25.5 million ($3.2 million or Rs 263 million) earlier this year.
Several more unique licence plate numbers were offered at the auction, including the 10 two-digit numbers AA19, AA22, AA80, O71, X36, W78, H31, Z37, J57, and N41.
An automobile with the number 1 plate from Abu Dhabi sold for a record-breaking 52.2 million dirhams (Rs 116.3 crore) in 2008.
Plate D 5 was purchased by businessman Balvinder Singh Sahni, also known as Abu Sabah, in 2016 for 33 million dirhams (Rs 74 crore).
The most expensive number plate is “MM,” which stands for the initials of the first owner, Michael Modecki, and is worth Rs 180 crore.
The second-most expensive licence plate in the world ‘F1’, owned by UK-based automotive designer Afzal Kahn, is worth $20 million (Rs 154 crore).