£1 million numberplate goes on sale
Let's hope they get it centred up a bit better
The X1 plate is being advertised for sale by Regtransfers, and McLaren may have the ideal customer for it - the owner of the one-off X-1. Given the car’s rumoured price tag of ‘well into seven figures’, they could probably afford it, too.
That £1 million price tag will stand for the next few weeks: if it doesn’t sell by then, it’ll go up for auction and most likely confirm its status as the UK’s most expensive private plate. The current record is £440,000 for F1, paid by Bradford businessman (and well-known vehicle tuner) Afzal Kahn in 2008. With transfer and auction fees, he ended up paying £500k all told. He was apparently offered £5m for it in 2010, but turned it down.
Northumberland City Council first issued the X1 registration in 1903 to, it seems, one of the UK’s first PHers, a doughty chap who was given the plate in recognition of his efforts in overturning the ‘red flag’ Locomotive Act legislation and removing the UK’s paltry 4mph speed limit. He was part of a committee based in Tynemouth, other members of which were given the successive plates X2-X5. Was it foresightedness that saw them leave out X6?
Whether the X-1’s owner will take up the plate remains to be seen. Rumour has it he/she is based in the Middle East, and as such might not be interested. In which case, any well-heeled BMW X1 owner who fancies inflating the price of their car by 40 times knows where to apply.
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st businessman if he turned down an offer that allowed him a £4.5million profit on something he had bought.
Wouldnt A1 be worth more? Nope I dont see it....
or K1 NG5 (sultan of brueni)
As for £1 million for X1, dream on. Typical of asking prices on Regtransfers, which are beyond optimistic most of the time. The story about turning down £5m for F1 is fantasy too.
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