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Who Owns The World’s Most Expensive Number Plates?

Who Owns World’s Most Expensive Number Plates

When it comes to getting your hands on an attractive, easy to remember and a great future investment… these men have gone an extra mile to purchase the world’s most expensive and attractive number plates. All these rich men have their own personal car collection and come from a business-related background. All these plates were sold in auctions and some of them carry a great history such as the ‘VIP-1’ plate.

Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri

Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri Number Plate 1

Saeed is a businessman from United Arab Emirates and is currently the person who paid highest amount of money to buy a number plate for his personal use. He purchased the plate number ‘1’ in an Abu Dhabi auction for $14.5 million which is the world’s most expensive number plate anyone has ever purchased in the history for a registration plate anywhere in the world. Khouri is the CEO of Abdul Khaleq Al Khouri & Bros Co and CEO of Milipol International Est.

Talal Ali Mohammed Khoury

Talal Ali Mohammed Khoury Number Plate 5 Number Plate 7

Talal is a businessman from United Arab Emirates and is the chairman of Al Awael Holding of Abu Dhabi. He paid £3.4 million for the number plate 5. He also later purchased the number plate ‘55’ for £800,000. When asked he mentioned that he holds no significance for these numbers.

Afzal Khan

Afzal Khan Number Plate F1

Afzal Khan is a British entrepreneur from UK. He is the CEO of Kahn Design. He purchased the registration plate F1 sold at an auction for £440,000. The plate was previously owned by the Essex county council chairman. The plate is now back up for sales and is currently being listed for sale at £14million pounds.

Mike McCommb

Mike McCommb Number Plate M1

Mike is a British business who sold his mobile phone store to BT cellnet for £40million. He purchased the registration plate M1 in 2006 for £330,000 three times more than the price. The plate was previously owned by Tatton Park to raise money for the grounds.

Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich Number Plate VIP 1

Roman is an Israeli-Russian businessman and politician; he is also the owner of the Chelsea football club. He purchased the registration plate VIP-1 for £285,000 in 2006. The registration plate VIP-1 was first created by the Irish government when Pop John Paul 2 visited in 1979. It is now estimated to be over £500,000.

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Written by Liviu Marcus

Liviu is the founder and chief editor of Automotivesblog. He is passionate about cars, computers, and technology, and these things are part of his everyday life. He likes to do research on everything that exists in the automotive industry in order to share with you the most important information in this field. Many nights were lost for this, but Liviu has no regrets as long as everything he does is a passion—the passion for cars and everything related to them.

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