World Record for "Distinguished Number Plates"

Further to the last post about the Abu Dhabi sale of the number 1...

The world record for the highest price ever paid for a car registration was comprehensively obliterated by the auction result. The successful bidder, a Mr Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri, paid over £7 million, thus doubling the previous world record price paid at an Emirates Auction sale last year.

Regtransfers.co.uk congratulates Emirates Auctions on achieving their second world record in a remarkably short time.

Emirates Auctions MD Abdulla Matar Al Mannaei said that 100 percent of the plates put up for auction were snapped up by buyers – a rare feat for any auction, where a sell rate of 95 percent is standard.

What makes us all the more enthusiastic about the spectacular results achieved by Mr Al Mannaei and his company is the range of good causes that benefit from the proceeds of the sales.

The five previous auctions raised £28 million from the sale of 393 plates, which went towards the support of special needs projects and victims of road accidents. Proceeds from this most recent auction will go towards building a national rehabilitation centre for traffic accident victims -- the first of its kind in the UAE. It will be run along the lines of the most advanced rehabilitation centers in the world and will provide physiotherapy, and other medical, psychological, social, occupational and recreational support.

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