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saw black bentley 1A with escort heading north outside KL. Think I know the owner. First the white rolls, license plate A1

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This car is in the Royal Automobile Gallery which is the private collection of the sultan of Selangor (see Royal Auto Gallery Photos). Sooo, since there are no historical instances of license plates in Malaysia starting with a number (excluding present diplomatic corp and UN plates, which must be 8 characters including dashes and historic sarawak division plates which must be at least 4 charachters with a D in the second position) this plate could not reasonably have been bought by private citizen. Also, it is common knowledge that Malaysian royalty reserve the right to certain numeric ranges (namely 1-99) as a suffix for security personnel.

Since 1A does not match any Malaysian license plate scheme (promotional plate schemes, military, diplomatic, or historic), the MY royalty have traditionally had access to private numeric ranges, historically only government related vehicles have had numeric first designation and the sultan of Selangor has a penchant for license plates (having purchased WWW1 for his proton satria for $500,000rm) my guess is that this car can only belong to the sultan.

In fact, it would not surprise me if the sultan arranged (bought) for the 1A plate to mirror his A1 plate. The effect would be a yin to yang (Black 1A luxury vehicle to White A1 luxury vehicle).
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Could be wrong - just an educated guess - but I could not imagine anyone having the ability to obtain the plate 1A without strong diplomatic pull, given its non-existence in existing plate schemes.

Also for the record, G1M is a promotional scheme (that was actually used to avoid import taxes) so if you see it on a luxury vehicle, it probably allowed the owner to avoid import taxes by registering in Langkawi with a G1M plate and transferring to anywhere in peninsular Malaysia.

This post has been edited by plateman: Apr 6 2016, 09:57 PM

oh and SAS was a promotional plate range in 2014 i think to honor a sultan or some political thing. They where auctioned off. Anyone was able to buy one for the right price (much like the G1M or 1M4U plates)