Dubai-based Indian businessman splurges $9 million on a licence plate

Dubai-based Indian businessman splurges $9 million on a licence plate

When you’ve got oodles of money, all you need is an expensive obsession. This has been proved time and again by the luxe-worthy, but the most recent acquisition of a $9 million number plate by Dubai based Indian businessman Balwinder Sahni figures way up on that list. The man who has a fleet of super expensive cars, recently won the plate at a government auction, to grace one among his two prized Rolls-Royce vehicles. Sahni runs a successful property development business in the Emirati land and displayed exuberance at winning the plate that carries the single digit- 5. While single numbered plates are known to catch the fancy of the affluent, Sahni seems to be particularly smitten by them, as he had spent $6.7 million to obtain a number ‘9’ plate in a similar auction last year. In another such instance in 2008, an Abu Dabi based entrepreneur spent $14 million to obtain a rare number plate that bore the coveted number ‘1’. Well, all we can say is, this takes the love of autos and numbers to another level altogether.