In 1989, the first year the DVLA began selling personalised registrations, only 658 were sold. Since then, sales figures in excess of 4.5 million have been recorded, with 2015-16 seeing a record 334,818 registrations sold. The rise in popularity of personalised number plates has much to do with car lovers’ thirst for adding personal touches to their treasured vehicles.   

Once you’ve settled o

While it’s very easy to get a new number plate, how to get rid of one might be a question people might ask themselves at some point if you are looking to raise some cash or your private plate has lost its appeal. Luckily, there are a couple of options for you whether you want to get creative or not, here are the ways you can dispose of your old number plate.

Sell your old number plate

One of the easiest ways to dispose of your old number plate would be to sell it. You can

Personalised number plates are a fun way to customise your car and have it express something about you – your name, nickname, business, favourite football team etc.

When we think of custom number plates, cars are the first vehicles that comes to mind. However, motorcyclists can also fit their bikes with personalised plates, even though they may only have one number plate on the rear (instead of having one on both ends like cars do).

Here are some mo

A study which compared fuel, tax, and purchase outlays for Volkswagen Golf car owners who chose either diesel, petrol, hybrid, or electric versions of the car concluded that the electric version was the cheapest to own. This is true not only in the UK, but is also the case in other European countries such as France, Norway, and Germany, amongst others.

The electric cars vs petrol cars debate has

The laws of supply and demand dictate the price of number plates. People want their registration numbers to convey a personalised message or a personal signifier, such as one’s name or nickname. Yet there are only so many ways one can spell a name using the combinations made possible by legislation. This, in conjunction with the fact that older types of number plates are more likely to come in combinations which are significant to peopl

Once you have purchased a new car, you may decide that you would like to add a personalised number plate to the vehicle. Often, when this is an older car, you may open your V5 log book document to find “non-transferable registration mark” written, but what does this mean?

What does “non-transferable registration mark” mean?

Simply, a non-transferable registration mark means it can’t be tran

Car experts predict that very few people will own their vehicle outright in 10 years’ time, so how does that effect private number plates? Can you put a private plate on a lease car?

The short answer is yes, you can put a private plate on a lease car. However, despite being straightforward, it requires a little bit of work. The process is a little bit different to normal. So to help you through the process, we’ve created this handy guide to putting private plate on a lease car.