{"id":2252,"date":"2009-12-23T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/numberplates\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:57:47","slug":"lucky-18-as-hong-kong-car-plate-sells-for-2-1-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/lucky-18-as-hong-kong-car-plate-sells-for-2-1-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky &#8217;18&#8217; as Hong Kong car plate sells for 2.1 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style41\">Hong Kong &#8211; A car registration plate has sold for 2.1 million US dollars in Hong Kong, making it the wealthy city&#8217;s most expensive vehicle number, a news report said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style41\">The plate &#8211; bearing the number 18 &#8211; was bought by an electronics businessman after 43 rounds of bidding at an auction of car numbers Saturday, the Sunday Morning Post newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style41\">The new record price beats by 500,000 US dollars the 1.6 million US dollars paid by Emperor entertainment group chairman Albert Yeung for the registration number 9 in 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style41\">Personalized or unusual number plates are seen as a symbol of prestige among wealthy Hong Kong people and the government has cashed in by holding regular car plate auctions since 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style41\">Among the other most expensive car numbers in recent years are 2, which sold for 1.21 million US dollars, and I Love U, which sold for 180,000 US dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong &#8211; A car registration plate has sold for 2.1 million US dollars in Hong Kong, making it the wealthy city&#8217;s most expensive vehicle number, a news report said Sunday. The plate &#8211; bearing the number 18 &#8211; was<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/lucky-18-as-hong-kong-car-plate-sells-for-2-1-million-dollars\/\" 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}