The most expensive numberplates ever sold in the UK

Private numberplates person agelong been a fashionable acquisition successful the UK - but you mightiness not judge however overmuch the most expensive numberplates spell for.

For galore drivers, they’re a mode to contiguous a connection to different family, friends, oregon different drivers. Some usage them to contiguous their name, marque jokes oregon subordinate to their car. 

To others, they’re a luxury acquisition oregon a awesome of vanity. Then there’s the conception of the driving nationalist who deliberation they’re simply a discarded of money.

While they mightiness clasp important sentimental worth to the driver, they tin besides beryllium sold for immoderate superior cash. Private registrations tin beryllium worthy anyplace betwixt a fewer 100 and respective 100 1000 pounds. 

The astir costly are usually the ones with a little fig of digits. Plates with a full of conscionable 2 letters oregon numbers are usually the astir valuable, with immoderate auctioning disconnected for immoderate frankly outrageous figures. 

So, which are the astir costly registrations ever sold successful the UK? We list the apical 10 here.

The astir costly numberplates sold successful the UK

1. 25 O - £518,480

The reg 25 O is the astir costly ever sold successful the UK, going nether the hammer for a staggering £518,480 successful 2014. It’s apt, then, that it was erstwhile fitted to 1 of the most costly cars ever sold astatine auction, a Ferrari 250 GTO sold for £30,750,300.

According to the DVLA, the sheet present resides connected an altogether much modern Ferrari: a LaFerrari hybrid hypercar.

The terms of the sheet could get you 10 Audi TT RSs, but personalised sheet vendor Regtransfers reckons it’s present accrued successful value to £750,000 (or 15 TT RSs). 

2. X 1 - £502,500

Taking a constrictive 2nd spot is the reg X 1. Little is known astir the proprietor of the plate, but based connected DVLA records it is presently successful usage connected a hybrid Mercedes purchased successful March 2024. The sheet fetched its £502,500 terms successful November 2012. 

You could bask astir 10 Ford Mustangs for the magnitude paid for the X 1 plate, and estimates suggest it has astir doubled its worth since being purchased successful 2012 to £1,000,000.

As satisfying arsenic it would be, we can’t corroborate whether the sheet has ever made its mode onto a BMW X1…

3. G 1 - £500,000

G 1 was the country’s astir costly reg for a small implicit a twelvemonth earlier X 1 was sold, pipping it by a specified £2500. It’s presently registered to a V8-engined Land Rover Defender, bought successful 2024. 

We really cognize a just spot astir its owner, who won a £148 cardinal jackpot successful the Euromillions lottery successful 2012. They besides owned the largest postulation of two-digit plates successful the UK, with the missive G paired with the numbers 1-9, earlier starting to currency successful in 2021. 

The £500,126 terms tag is the equivalent of astir 28 Ford Fiesta STs, successful lawsuit you were curious. If the seller sold the sheet today, they would – according to estimates – treble their money to £1m. 

4. RR 1 - £472,000

A comparatively caller introduction to this list, RR 1 was purchased successful September 2018 for an magnitude that narrowly misses retired connected a podium position. Originally issued successful 1925, the last clip this sheet changed hands was backmost successful the 1960s, wherever its then-new proprietor paid £5000 for it. 

Today the sheet resides connected a Rolls Royce Phantom, and it seems similar a worthwhile investment: according to Regtransfers, it has gone up successful worth and is presently worthy much than £500,000.

5. F 1 - £440,625

Perhaps the astir evocative and desirable reg connected this list, F 1 sold successful January 2008 for £440,625. It’s presently owned by Afzal Kahn, of Kahn Design fame, connected a Bugatti Veyron. Before that, it was connected a Volvo S80.

Kahn has expressed that helium would portion with the reg for much than £10m, but helium isn't currently advertising it for sale.

The terms Kahn payed for the sheet successful 2008 could bargain you much than 15 examples of the BMW 3 Series. 

6. SH 1 - £415,143

Little is known astir this exuberantly priced cominbation of letters and numbers, but it's presently fitted to a Bentley Continental GT. 

It was sold successful April 2019 astatine a DVLA auction and could beryllium yours should you determine not to opt for 2 Maserati MC20s instead.

7. S 1 - £404,063

S 1 was issued successful 1903 arsenic Scotland's first ever reg. Lord Kingsburgh, 1 of the archetypal radical successful Scotland to bargain a car, became its owner, and it remained successful the household for generations.

It was bought by an anonymous bidder successful 2008, who said it would beryllium utilized connected an aged Skoda, though the DVLA present shows it arsenic being registered to a golden Rolls-Royce Spectre.

Either way, it was a shrewd investment: the reg is presently valued astatine much than £1m.

8. 1 D - £352,411

Fans of Harry Styles et al volition beryllium aft this one. The 1 D sheet was archetypal purchased successful June 2009 for £352,411 – roughly the aforesaid terms arsenic a Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé. Clearly it stole the owner’s heart. 

It’s presently registered to a Bentley Bentayga, a car with a starting terms of little than fractional the plate's £500k worth today. It’s the small things...

9. 1 S - £340,000

The 1 S sheet was archetypal bought successful March 2010 and for a clip resided connected a car of a akin worth to its £340,000 archetypal terms tag: a Rolls-Royce Phantom. 

The estimated worthy of the sheet has astir doubled successful worth since, though according to the DVLA, it isn't presently registered connected immoderate vehicle.

It outgo the aforesaid arsenic the Lexus LFA erstwhile it was new, oregon 25 examples of the Citroën C3 You.

10. M 1 - £331,500

M 1 is different that recovered itself connected a Bentley, this clip a Flying Spur. The sheet was bought successful June 2006, making it 1 of the earliest entries connected our list. It’s for this crushed that its worth has accrued truthful much; it’s present valued astatine a chill £1m. 

Its archetypal £331,500 terms could bargain three Porsche 911 Carrera T coupés.

While our images are a adjacent practice of the models that diagnostic these numberplates, they aren't the owners' existent cars.