You guessed not how much this man paid for registration number “1”

Posted on 06-06-2016 at 19:56 by CasperH – 52 Comments”

Hint: the license plate is more expensive than the car on which it is mounted.

Arif Ahmad Al Zarouni has a motto: “always be number 1”. And it fits, of course, but one license plate. Last weekend was in the United Arab Emirates, an auction will be held where the number plate “1” was auctioned. Al Zarouni wanted the vehicle had any price paid, which had required to get it. There are often crazy amounts deposited for license plates, especially in deserts with black gold in the soil.

Personalized license plates are just good trade as our neighbours also know. Al Zarouni knew the plate to get the tidy sum of, wait for it, 18 million Dirhams. Translated, this comes down to approximately €4.3 million euro, more than 18 times the reserve for this registration was made.

There were at the auction a few badges distributed, including 50, 100, 333, 777, 1000, 2016, 2020 and 99999. In total, the auction of more than $50 million AED, which equates to almost €12 million. In total, there were 1340 bidders at the auction. In fact, this is not the most expensive number plate ever, that honor probably goes to this Rolls Royce from Abu Dhabi. (source: Gulf News)