Have a fancy vehicle registration number is not a new trend which is not only restricted till India but across the globe and people are actually willing to pay more than the car for a fancy number.
Something like that is happening in Britain, where a man is selling his ‘F1’ license plate for a whopping Rs 110 crore.
Britain-based Afzal Khan has posted an online advertisement, wherein he selling his ‘F1’ license plate for a whopping Rs 110 crore.
It is a regular car license, in the sense that it is not finished in gold or diamond. The Euro-styled number plate features two characters finished on a yellow body.
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While the number plate itself costs Rs 110 crore, but after adding 20 percent of Value Added Tax (VAT) and transfer fees, the total price comes up to Rs 132 crore. The number plate has reportedly been listed on UK’s Regtransfers website, which is the country’s leading supplier of official number plates with customers like David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Sir Ian Botham and boxing star Amir Khan.
Prior to this, an Arab businessman Saeed Abdul Ghafour Khouri paid roughly $14.3 million for a local license plate that had number 1 on it back in 2008.