Study Finds Audi Drivers Are Most Likely To Own A Private Registration Plate

Having a private number plate is a great way to make your car stand out from the rest by adding something personalised to you. They’re an easy to do modification and more importantly – they’re perfectly acceptable to add from the perspective of a finance company, (if you are paying for your car monthly) as you aren’t making any mechanical changes to the car. These plates are often seen as a huge vanity statement due to the obscenely large amount of money some registrations cost, so it makes perfect sense that a very recent study on the vanity of UK car owners conducted by Manchester based car leasing company All Car Leasing uncovered that you’re most likely to see a private registration plate on an Audi model than any other manufacturer – of course, those that have the money to own a premium brand car would likely have the extra cash to splash out on a vanity plate. To go a step further, 21% of the entire survey respondents said that they have a private plate!

What Is A Private Registration Plate?

The term ‘private reg’ refers to a specific number plate that can be purchased for a car – so rather than keeping the registration plate the car comes with, you can choose a new reg for your car that may relate to things such as your name, initials or even something funny. There are two main rules surrounding private number plates though – you can’t choose anything vulgar/offensive nor can you choose a plate which would make your car look newer than it actually is – so you couldn’t put a newly released 19 number plate on a 14 plate car.

Different Types Of Registration Plate

There are four unique types of number plate – Current, Prefix, Suffix & Dateless, with the arrangement of numbers and letters appearing in different orders.

• Current Style – This is the ongoing format of all newly registered cars, for example: XX11 XXX.
• Prefix Style – This reg has the year towards the start of the plate, for example: X1 XXX
• Suffix Style – Similar to prefix, but the year is at the far end of the plate, for example: XXX 111X
• Dateless Style – These don’t refer to any model year, for example: X 1

A general rule of thumb is that reg plates which spell things – whether that being literally or phonetically – or ones which have few characters like “M 2” are the ones that cost the most, in some cases that can be way over £100,000! That’d cover your car insurance bill for a lifetime!

So, If Audi Owners Are The Most Likely – Who Else Has A Private Reg?

Well, according to the survey in 2^nd place was Ford owners, followed by BMW in 3^rd. What was interesting though, is that the survey found that private reg owners are also over 50% more likely to post pictures of their car to social media to show off their car when on their travels! That draws a positive correlation between owning a private plate and showing it off on the likes of Instagram.

The survey doesn’t just look at private registration plates though – check out the full infographic below!

Doin’ it for the ‘gram by All Car Leasing