DVLA Online Auction of 1000 previously unissued registrations.

The DVLA Online Auction of 1000 previously unissued registrations, commenced at 10.00am on Wednesday the 10th February, the sale will close at 2.00pm on Wednesday the 3rd March. Reserves start from £130.

Bidders submit Maximum Bids which are invisible to other bidders and bidding starts at the Reserve Price for each registration. The current bid price for each registration is on view at all times. If there is competitive bidding activity on particular number plates, the auction system will increase bids on behalf of a registered bidder up to their Maximum Bid.

Bids cannot be removed once they are placed. For lots on which there is a great deal of bidding activity, the End Time will slide to allow competitive bidding to reach its natural conclusion.

To bid you must first register for the sale. Once you have registered you can submit your bids online securely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until the close of the sale. At the end of the sale, you will be contacted if you are successful.

If you wish to discuss the online auction procedure in further detail please contact SMA, DVLA Auction Team on 0300 123 3500 or email online@dvlaauction.co.uk.



Next Auction Announced

Old Trafford Football Ground is the venue for the next three-day auction commencing on the 24th March. Go to dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/auctions and view the entire 1500 collection.

DVLA Personalised Registrations has secured a limited number of tickets enabling registered bidders a tour of the Manchester United museum, trophy room and stadium.

Numbers in the sale include the latest in the single ‘O’ series 9 O (£10,000) DAV 333S (£400), G44 RRY (£1000), WO07 TON (£1000) and G111 GGS (£900).

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ABU DHABI '7' Plate Sells For $4.6m

The third most expensive registration plate in the world sold in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, confirming the UAE as a vanity-plate record holder.

A plate bearing the single digit '7' was sold for 17 million dirhams, or $4.6 million, in a government auction on Saturday.


According to the Guinness Book of Records, the most expensive number plate ever sold, barring the single digit, 1 , was bought by Emirati businessman Said Khouri in 2008 for an eye watering 52.2 million dirhams, the equivalent of $14.2 million.

The second most expensive number plate, 5, was also sold in Abu Dhabi for 25.2 million dirhams, or $6.86 million, during a number plate auction organized by the Emirates Auction Company in 2007. A total of 72 vanity plates were sold on Saturday for a total of 50 million dirhams.

"I think its a matter of recognition." said Muhammad Kashif, owner of the UAE Number Plates Company. "Just having a Ferrari isnt much these days. People want a nice number plate to go with the car. It makes them just that much more popular than the other Ferrari drivers."

Kashif said that the trend for private number plates is now so popular in the Emirates that people far less wealthy are starting to get in on the act.

As number plates in the UAE come by default with five digits, the fewer digits on the plate, the higher the value. A number plate with four digits can cost around 5,000 dirhams, ($1,300) but prices are pushed up for numbers that are memorable, in sequence like 1234 or all identical such ads 7777.

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Car Number Plates Are Educational

Car Number Plates Are Educational – its official!


Hard to believe I know but number plates have actually saved scholarships.
Earnings from University of Montana specialty car number plates helped save hundreds of scholarships threatened by the economic downturn this academic year.

"We had a significant deficit last year", said Keith Kuhn, vice president of finance and operations for the UM Foundation.

An emergency fundraising campaign by the Foundation raised almost $275,000, Kuhn said. It raised additional funds by asking donors to directly fund their scholarships for a year since the endowments they had created had been crippled.

But that was not enough to save the scholarships available to students, so President George Dennison helped find extra funds.

Car number plates to the rescue again!


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Will Abu Dhabi '7' Break World Record

If you're an Abu Dhabi resident, how do you fancy hitting the road with number 7 on your car number plate? Or maybe you'd prefer two or three digit numbers like a triple three or a triple seven?

Whatever your preference, some of these fancy number plates go under the hammer at an auction to be held at 4pm at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

In 2008, Number 1 got picked up for a whopping $14 million, making it the worlds most expensive registration. Number 5 went to an Abu Dhabi businessman for $9 million which is the second-largest sum ever paid for a number plate.

Will 7 beat the world record? That all depends on how badly the bidder wants it.

The auction is being organised by the Abu Dhabi Police in collaboration with the Emirates Auctions Company. The proceeds of the auction, sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, will go to charity and humanitarian projects.

Participants wil be able to bid for their favourite number plates and contribute to social institutions, said Brigadier Salem Ali Al Shamsi, Director of Privatization and Resources Development Department at the Abu Dhabi Police.

A variety of customised registrations, including the 37 distinguished numbers of the sixth category, prominent being number 7, will be issued for bidding, he said.

Three digit numbers include 333, 700 and 105, while the four digits include 7,777 and 10,000, Shamsi said.

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