JOHOR BAHRU – Johor Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar has been declared the highest bidder of the FF1 number plate.

In a Facebook post on Sunday, he said he granted an audience to Transport Minister Anthony Loke, who handed over the plate.

Mr Loke posted on Facebook that the Sultan paid RM1.2 million (S$348,000).

The Sultan, an avid car collector, is no stranger to paying for unique licence plates.

In July 2016, he bought the F1 plate for RM836,660 before splashing out another RM990,000 on the V1 plate a month later.

In May, Mr Loke said the special FF number plate series generated over RM34 million in revenue.

This was the highest sum collected since the Road Transport Department’s eBid system was opened to the public on April 15, 2019, he added.

The FF8 plate was clinched for RM950,000 and the FF9 one for RM911,999. FF3 and FF2 drew winning bids of RM639,000 and RM638,000, respectively.

The FF number plate series was launched to mark the 77th anniversary of the Road Transport Department. Netizens had been speculating on the buyer of FF1 since the series was launched in May.

“There was an incredible response to this series, with up to 34,032 bidders,” said Mr Loke. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK