{"id":1301,"date":"2011-09-05T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-09-05T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T07:58:26","slug":"personalised-number-plates-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/personalised-number-plates-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalised Number Plates For Everyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Like Marmite and Jedward, personalised number plates are one of life\u2019s great dividers, you either love \u2018em or hate \u2018em.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a new survey from insurers Elephant, we now know that down here in Dorset, in Sandbanks, they can\u2019t get enough of them.<\/p>\n<p>After Inverclyde, west of Glasgow, where 14 per cent of the population  sport this type of number plate, Sandbanks is England\u2019s personalised  numberplate capital, with 13 per cent of the population   owning one.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise there, you might say.<\/p>\n<p>Or, indeed, to learn that Bentley Continental drivers are most likely to own one, with 36% carrying a personalised plate.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by the Ferrari 360 and Aston Martin DB7 where 35 per cent of those owners are likely to have one.<\/p>\n<p>The motorists least likely to have one? The person who drives a Suzuki Liana.<\/p>\n<p>But, as Elephant has discovered over the years, as they regularly  survey more than 3 million policies, personalised plates are not just  the preserve of self-made millionaires, pop stars and   celebrity wide-boy former council leaders (and yes, we do mean you,  Derek Hatton, with your DEG5Y plate.) According to the insurer\u2019s  managing director, Brian Martin, past research has thrown up   some surprising results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just people with high-powered occupations living in swanky  postcode areas, who own them,\u201d he said. \u201cOccupations at the top of the  list include farriers, newsagents and construction   machinery operators and many of the postcode areas with the highest  percentage are in rural areas, lots of them in Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Marmite and Jedward, personalised number plates are one of life\u2019s great dividers, you either love \u2018em or hate \u2018em. Thanks to a new survey from insurers Elephant, we now know that down here in Dorset, in Sandbanks, they can\u2019t<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/personalised-number-plates-for-everyone\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}