'ARABS' car plate on auction in UAE... for a paltry starting amount of £250,000

Car plates tell the status of a person in the UAE. The bigger you are in stature; your car number plate gets smaller.

The numbers and the letters on your car tell the rest of the world yes, you are a very important or just an important person in the country.

For all those who cherish good number plates, here is your chance to get something that is not just limited to a four, three or two digit number. This number plate from the UK that is being marketed - ARA 8S - reads ARABS on a vehicle.

For those who are interested, check and bid and mind you the minimum bidding price mentioned on the site is £250,000.Who knows you might be the lucky one (if you bid the highest) and would be driving a car with the most different number plate.

As this website has reported in the past, UAE residents are the biggest spenders in the world when it comes to buying exceptional or rare registration plates, according to the UK's Regtransfer website, which monitors the amount of money being spent on car registrations across the world.

The UAE holds the world record for the most expensive number plate ever auctioned - Plate No. 1, was auctioned for a staggering Dh52.5 million in Abu Dhabi in February 2008 as part of Emirates Auctions' charity drive, which sold 90 number plates in a series of auctions to raise Dh88.15 million ($24m) for accident victims.