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Most Expensive Registration Plates
As popularity grows, the prices reached for the most expensive plates are always increasing with many motorists attracted by the investment potential as well as vanity. In the UK Sales of private plates via the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency broke through the £100million mark for the first time in 2016. Since 1989 the DVLA have made a total of £2billion from selling private plates. While many of the super rich spend more money on their private plate than their personal vehicle, It's not all car owners that are attracted to private plates. This has not effected number plates from appreciating thousands in value each year.

Registration  sold for £7.25million and is the highest price paid for a plate – in the United Arab Emirates. It was purchased by Abu Dhabi businessman Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri in 2008. As of 2014, the registration  broke a new record of being the highest priced plate sold at a DVLA auction. Registration  was purchased for £518,000 by Ferrari dealer John Collins in 2014, the plate now sits pride of place on a Ferrari 250 SWB once owned by rock star Eric Clapton. From 2012 some number plates beginning with 0 and 00 was released to generate revenue for the island. Registration  is a highly desirable plate especially for fans of a successful movie starring a fictional character called James Bond or "007" originally created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953, the plate surprisingly only achieved £240,000 at an auction in September 2015. Registration  and   have been considered as the most desirable plates amongst supercar and formula one fanatics. The registration  is a suffix style plate that was issued in the same year British racing driver James Hunt won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. The plate covers an endless list of all the different forms of racing making the plate extremely desirable to billions of individuals across the globe. Since there has been a big fuss of race related plates the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency has made a racer game for motorist to celebrate the huge profits made from the sales of private plates, the celebration took place at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2010. Unlike Horse racing, Formula One racing has become more popular in the last few years hence why the  plate was always going to sell well. On 25 January 2008 the registration  Sold for £440,000 to Bradford Car design entrepreneur Afzal Kahn. The plate was previously owned and sold by Essex County Council and was sold to raise money for training young drivers. Today the  plate has a valuation beyond six figures with the price tag only increasing each year. Originally the plate was affixed in 1904 to the Panhard et Levassor of the then County Surveyor. Previously a few months before the  plate was purchased, the   plate sold for £397,500 at a auction in September 2007 by an anonymous buyer making it the second most expensive number plate ever sold in the UK. The  plate was originally owned by Sir John H A MacDonald, the Lord Kingsburgh and was Edinburgh's first ever number plate. Within the space of two years the  plate sold for £65,500 more than the   plate that sold at auction in Goodwood on 7 July 2006. Registration's           are also marked as considerably expensive plates that have sold publicly in excess of six figures.