Stuff About Cars

Yeh, I know. A bit pricey.

But that is apparently what a Dubai businessman paid for a personalised car registration - which he then gave to his dad! Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for splashing out on a nice prezzie for your dad every now and then, but I have to say that I reckon my dad would kick my arse if I told him I’d spent four hundred grand on him… and then handed him a set of plastic number plates!

Seriously though, it does go to show that personalised number plates are big business now. They are more popular than ever and, judging by what I see on the roads, people are getting more imaginative, and coming up with better plates. In the old days it was all fat millionaires in Rollers with initials on their private plates. Now, however, people seem to be going for the fun side of it.

I expect most of you have heard of the car which drives around with number plates that read PEN 15… Yeh, you’d have to be thick-skinned to take the stick that must attract.
But as well as the fun side, lets go back to my earlier comment about them being big business. Many people are buying these number plates as investments, and with recent prices of some plates in the UK reaching £300,000 it isn’t surprising. And it seems that this trend is international - the chap in Dubai was, in an interview I read, going on about all the plates he has bought for investment. Most of them he doesn’t even have on cars.

It certainly is a growing interest and a growing marketplace.

** Checks pockets **

Wonder what I can get for eight quid…

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