Thailand's most expensive car number plate

BANGKOK:-- What is believed to be Thailand's most expensive car number plate has gone on sale at auction.

According to the latest plates auction centre, this car number plate is available for you to buy for a staggering 25,000,000 THB!

The plate reads 1 Kor Kor 1111 (Kor is the first letter of of the Thai alphabet) which is said to be the reason for the hefty price tag.

-- 2014-05-26

Source: Talay Hua Hin

I hope they will not put it on a beat-up pick-up !!

I will pass ,but thanks for the offer

While some people doesn´t have money for food, some people are prepared to pay 25 milion for a god damn car number plate

Is a Facebook posting a sufficiently authoritative source for this to be believed?

The price is out of line with previous high priced number plates such as sor sor 9999 (6.75 million), yor yor 9999 (11 million), sor sor (different "sor") 9999 (6.75 million again).

And the previous high priced ones have all been 9999 - not 1111.

Has the plate actually been sold? Or is this some chancer putting a ludicrous price on something "worth" far less?

25 Million... That's about 750,000 US. Give me a break....

The buyer will have a hard time to find a car to "match" Veyron, Maybach, Rolls, Bently?????

Is a Facebook posting a sufficiently authoritative source for this to be believed?

Video of the auction.

Took about 7 minutes to drive the price.

A bit boring, so lets go to position "and the winner is":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUwsRWUgI0#t=421

bidder #111, profession: inheritor

The winner hasn't yet handed himself in to the army!

While some people doesn´t have money for food, some people are prepared to pay 25 milion for a god damn car number plate

Ah, free market capitalism. Ain't it great! Sorry, couldn't help but to comment.

The buyer will have a hard time to find a car to "match" Veyron, Maybach, Rolls, Bently?????

As far as I know, a top notch Rolls is about 36 million?

Still "a little bit" distorted.

Is a Facebook posting a sufficiently authoritative source for this to be believed?

Video of the auction.

Took about 7 minutes to drive the price.

A bit boring, so lets go to position "and the winner is":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUwsRWUgI0#t=421

bidder #111, profession: inheritor

Thanks for the clarification.

The buyer will have a hard time to find a car to "match" Veyron, Maybach, Rolls, Bently?????

Then its got to go on Thai roads

I always get frustrated with the transliteration of Thai to English alphabet, ก the first letter of the Thai alphabet sounds like Gor Gai (Chicken) - it is a hard G sound, yet it is constantly written as a hard K Kor Kai (Egg) which is the second letter of the Thai alphabet - ข

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I always get frustrated with the transliteration of Thai to English alphabet, ก the first letter of the Thai alphabet sounds like Gor Gai (Chicken) - it is a hard G sound, yet it is constantly written as a hard K Kor Kai (Egg) which is the second letter of the Thai alphabet - ข

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Agree but then my hearing isn't as sharp as it use to be when I was going to Pink Floyd and Alice Cooper concerts.

While some people doesn´t have money for food, some people are prepared to pay 25 milion for a god damn car number plate

How is that different from the west where people pay 10 times that for some old, useless painting?

While some people doesn´t have money for food, some people are prepared to pay 25 milion for a god damn car number plate

I see, u think that life is fair

I always get frustrated with the transliteration of Thai to English alphabet, ก the first letter of the Thai alphabet sounds like Gor Gai (Chicken) - it is a hard G sound, yet it is constantly written as a hard K Kor Kai (Egg) which is the second letter of the Thai alphabet - ข

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Kor Kai is (loosely speaking) half way between an English G and K. Some systems use G, others use K for it. It is not aspirated.

Khor Khai is much closer to an English K and is aspirated.

In some systems H is used to indicate aspiration, giving pairs K, KH, T TH, P PH. In each case the first of the two is unaspirated.

It's quite logical once you know what's going on.

Bit Dumb whoever bought it ,my Chum has 111 on a new Porsche that looks like a Fortuna .all those numbers are available in every Thai Province. He bought his in LOI Province wherever that is. About 65 K at a guess.

Is there a plate that reads "I've got more money than sense"?

I always get frustrated with the transliteration of Thai to English alphabet, ก the first letter of the Thai alphabet sounds like Gor Gai (Chicken) - it is a hard G sound, yet it is constantly written as a hard K Kor Kai (Egg) which is the second letter of the Thai alphabet - ข

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Yeah new people here just learning the language, do get frustrated.

Must be confusing your learning.

Am I right in saying it was a charity auction?

who was the buyer?

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Mai pen rai, it is going to be stolen pretty soon!

In the south of England at this moment there is a Mercedes carrying the number plate THAI-1.

Really, I have no idea who owns it.

And not even "PORN STAR 1" written on it <3

All this about nines and ones makes me laugh! When the olympics started in Beijing it was eight minutes past eight on the eigth of the eighth month, august. The chinese always favour eight over other numbers and the 20 % or so of the thai community who have chinese heritage are not so different. So it has always been my feeling that numbers with 8888 are more valuable. Ialso one poster's reference to porn is crucial too....porn in thai spelt with the two letters พร means blessing so the number plate พร8888 has exceptional value. It exists and has come up for sale privately over the years. Should it do so again it may well be worth 25 million. People dont buy these numbers to waste their money, they may well be a great investment. The cherished number plate industry in thailand is now a massive business with both the private and public sectors realising its potential. Just take a look at the values in any thai lsnguage car for sale magazine to see what สส (thai for MP) plates are going for!

"1 Kor "

Very appropriate , the new owner will probably drive / park , just like a real "1 Kor "

I often wonder :

You can go to many places all over Thailand and get a Licence Plate "Customised" - in other words the background, the Font, the overall appearance of the Plate etc., and none of them ask to see your Registration Papers.

Suppose you go to one of these places and, for a fee obviously, have a Plate made up with your own idea of an "important" or "auspicious" looking Number - Thai letters followed by "9999" or whatever - and then you pinned that Plate to your simple Toyota Camry, Fortuner - whatever?

Do you think any Thai policeman would dare pull you over to check your Documents?

Patrick

I often wonder :

You can go to many places all over Thailand and get a Licence Plate "Customised" - in other words the background, the Font, the overall appearance of the Plate etc., and none of them ask to see your Registration Papers.

Suppose you go to one of these places and, for a fee obviously, have a Plate made up with your own idea of an "important" or "auspicious" looking Number - Thai letters followed by "9999" or whatever - and then you pinned that Plate to your simple Toyota Camry, Fortuner - whatever?

Do you think any Thai policeman would dare pull you over to check your Documents?

That would be one sure way to get your car impounded if the constabulary were suspicious and wanted to check your plates against the blue book. Also your personal liberty would be in jeopardy!

While some people doesn´t have money for food, some people are prepared to pay 25 milion for a god damn car number plate

How is that different from the west where people pay 10 times that for some old, useless painting?

But a numberplate on your wall isn't really much of a sight.