Sahni reportedly paid about $9 million (more precisely: 33 million dirhams) for his most recent vanity plate, and contrary to what you might expect it doesn’t spell out a funny or meaningful phrase like “$$$ MAN” or “REL EST8.” Instead, Sahni’s vanity plate passion is for single-digit plates, this time shelling out his hard-earned 33 million dirhams at a government auction for a license plate that only bears the number “5,” plus the standard “D” for Dubai as well as a stylized logo for the city. Not only is this not Sahni’s first time spending an outrageous sum on a vanity plate, having paid $6.7 million for a “9” plate last year, but it’s not even the most anyone has ever paid for a vanity plate. That distinction belongs to an “Abu Dhabi businessman” who paid $14 million for a license plate in 2008, thus setting the record that still stands today. That $14 million license plate, by the way, was a number “1,” which has to be the Holy Grail among single-digit license plate enthusiasts.
