The world’s most expensive registration plate comes to London
The world’s most expensive registration plate is currently gracing the streets of London on a dark red Rolls-Royce Phantom.
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The owner of the plate, which features no letters and just the numeral “1”, is a man named Saeed Khouri from Abu Dhabi. Of why he paid an astounding £7,100,000 for it in 2008, Khouri commented:
“I bought it because it’s the best number… I bought it because I want to be the best in the world”.
Khouri’s family are said to have made their wealth in property and his cousin, Talal, has a similar passion for number plates. He paid £3,470,000 for the registration “5” in 2007.
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14 comments
Some people have money to burn..I would have spent the money feeding the starving or doing surgery to reverse female mutilations on thousands of women and girls
Not sure why the registration would even cost that much, but obviously this guy has tons of money if he’s kicking out that kind of dough for a license plate. So to answer the question, if I had his amount of money and wouldn’t miss it, I’d THINK about it! LOL
Oil money can get you anything…
What’s the saying, “If you’ve got it, flaunt it”.
It’s certainly a cool number, not convinced it’s worth £7 million but as long as the buyer is happy, good luck to him 🙂
… a beautiful world…
Vanity is so often such a waste of money — This is such an empty action as we receive honors based on what we give not what we take.
Good for him!
Vulgar car: Vulgar colour….Vulgar man….what a world we live in now…the barbarians are not at the gate….they are inside.
and this says all we need to know about his value scale….” I bought it because I want to be the best in the world”.
And why not?
Well, I suppose why not….. if you think a number plate can elevate you to being best in the world!
Think about it, dear chap….
No you wouldn’t. People always say that and it’s crap. You would have bought a big house a nice car and pissed the rest away. Besides people who moan about others in that way never make shit.
Saw this car today on M1 followed by a white range rover registration 99
Wrong number font, in correct background colour on front and rear and an owner who is definetly “one”.
DVLA should withdraw the plate from him as it breaches the t&c’s which apply. Rules for some and rules for others!