accepted Change, you could make your motor Vehicle a license plate. What would you choose? In Hong Kong this is possible. Whether LAZY, WEALTH, or LUCKY – all of it. Only the fun costs.
On the Mercedes luxury sedan in eye-catching capital letters “WEALTH” – wealth. On the Porsche the English word “LAZY” stands out (lazy) and the electric car brand Tesla is labeled with “BYE OPEC”, thus translated: “good-bye, Oil-Kartel OPEC”.
It is not a sticker, but the car’s number plate, so the normal number plates. Because there are in Hong Kong road, the special feature is that you can choose almost all the possible and impossible words, names, abbreviations and short sentences as a car license plate. However, the fun costs.
“PLAYBOY” for the gentlemen, “STYLE” for the designer
“I bought the number plate ‘STYLE’,” says a Hong kongerin. The fits to her profession: she is a designer. The 40,000 Hong Kong dollars has been paid by you for this license plate, the equivalent of 4500 euros.
“I’ve got time for the ‘Playboy’ worked. And in the license plate auction, I was lucky and I saved the ‘Playboy’mark,” says a motorist. He has almost paid 9000 euros for the striking letters of the wagon.
“Wealth” – “wealth” is not only plan, but also inside: For such a number plate at the request of the Hong Kong deep in the pocket.
Minimum of just under 600 Euro.
Times of the year, will be auctioned in Hong Kong a license plate. You can submit to the authorities in advance of certain names and words. Minimum bid at the auctions are just under 600 euros. A few weeks ago have been sold for this amount, for example, “BAD BOSS” and “F1SH SML”. Sought-after combinations with the digits 6 and 8, both are regarded in China as the lucky numbers are. The proceeds from the license plate auctions go into a city Fund that spends the money for charitable purposes.
A very practical reason, this car could have a plate. Never use the drinking water to forget?
Often, the trademark name also have very practical reasons. A man drives a car with the number plate “HOP HUEN”. “This is the Name of the company,” he says. “And our Boss bought for the company car, this desire to mark.”
“LUCKY” for around two million Euro.
One of the most expensive Hong Kong license plate of all time is “LUCKY”. The buyer wished, apparently, happiness in the road, that was him three years ago, around two million euros in the equivalent value. Comparatively cheap in contrast, the romantic number plate “1 L0VE U was sold at auction”: It cost “only” 150,000 euros.
LAZY, the WEALTH, and 1 L0VE U: Hong Kong’s request, mark madness, Steffen root, ARD Shanghai |audio Atlas |China |Hong Kong
