Trendy "plates": How many cars received special license plates in 2024

License plates with a paid combination of numbers and individual license plates are a separate paid optional service from the Ministry of Internal Affairs service centers, which can be used by motorists who care about what license plates are on their car. Or who want to emphasize their individuality or strengthen the advertising of their own business.

Letʼs remind you what the difference is between paid and individual license plates. Paid ones are those that contain a "beautiful" combination of numbers from a certain list, and their price depends on the "beauty" of the combination, which, by the way, is established and fixed by the state. These are numbers like 0001, 7777, 5577, 1234, 1001 and the like. They are the main state-issue license plates, you can travel abroad with them.

Individual — this is an additional set of "plates", which is issued to the main one, information about it is entered in the registration certificate. You can drive with such only on the territory of Ukraine. They are individual because you can apply arbitrary (except for prohibited) words, logos on them, in an amount of not less than three and not more than eight. Tariffs are set for each symbol plus the production of the plates themselves, plus the cost of re-registration of the vehicle after issuing these personalized numbers. You can check the availability of the desired combination and order (book) the DNZ on the page of the Main Service Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. You can find out the current prices for the first and second types of numbers at the end of this article.

Paid license plates

In total, last year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs Central Office issued 15,003 license plates with a paid combination of numbers. However, not all of them are exclusively for passenger cars, here are the vehicles for which this type of license plate was ordered:

• Passenger cars — 13,239 units.
• Cargo — 1073 pcs.
• Motorcycles — 245 pcs.
• Trailers — 190 pcs.
• Buses — 36 pcs.
• Quad bikes — 8 pcs.
• Tricycles — 7 pcs.
• Mopeds — 5 pcs.

Interestingly, the dynamics of orders for this option turned out to be uneven throughout the year. Yes, this service is more often ordered during the registration of a purchased car, that is, there must also be a certain dependence on the pace of the car market here, but in fact this did not manifest itself in all months. In general, the peak of orders for paid combinations of type 5555 fell on June, and motorists were least interested in “fashionable plates” in October last year.

Regional activity is similar to the overall activity in the primary and secondary markets. The leader in terms of the volume of ordered paid numbers was the capital, with a double advantage over the second place, which is the Kyiv region. The third region, where beautiful combinations of numbers are most popular, was the Dnipropetrovsk region.

As for individual models, on which last year paid numbers with special combinations of numbers most often appeared, the championship here went to the BMW X5, with 450 units. In second place is the Toyota Camry, 370 units. The top three are closed by the BMW 5 Series with a total of 314 cars with “beautiful” numbers.

Individual license plates

The owners of 15,577 vehicles decided to distinguish their cars from the mass of standard license plates with inscriptions on plates like PIZZA, VASYA, LEOPARD or similar. Interestingly, this is almost the same as the number of issued paid license plates. And here too, not all individual license plates (or plates — inscriptions on them are more common than digital combinations) ended up on passenger cars. Here is how these visual identifiers were distributed among different vehicles:

• Passenger cars — 14,481 units.
• Cargo — 665 pcs.
• Motorcycles — 408 pcs.
• Buses — 22 pcs.
• Quad bike — 1 pc.

The highest interest in obtaining individual numbers last year was recorded in January, the lowest in November. The dynamics here do not completely repeat the dynamics from the previous section. Here is how it looks in the diagram:

The regional picture of interest in individual "plates" is similar to the picture for paid numbers, with the difference that the Odessa region is in third place here, and the Dnipropetrovsk region is in fourth. Kyiv, as in the section above, is the leader of the list, the Kyiv region is in second.

The list of models here is different, even though several cars are still repeated. So, in terms of their own content, motorists most often attached license plates to the BMW 3 Series last year (517 units). The favorite of our secondary market, the Volkswagen Passat, lagged behind the “three” by a little — 515 units. The third place is taken by the BMW 5 Series, with a result of 488 issued license plates.

As for prices, obtaining dedicated paid number combinations such as 0001, 0007, 7777 will cost 96,000 UAH. Slightly cheaper options such as 0002-0005, 0008-0009, 1111, 2222 (and similar) — these cost 60,000 UAH each. Against their background, options for 18,000 UAH such as 0123, 1234, 0011, 0022 and similar look like a mere trifle. The cheapest paid NZs are estimated at 4,800 UAH at the time of publication of this review, these are combinations such as 9909, 8388, 0500 and similar. Individual plates start at 300 UAH for a minimum of 3 characters, then 90 UAH for each subsequent one, the logo — 500 UAH. Plus, you have to pay for the production of the "plates" themselves, 340 UAH, and for the issuance of a new "technical passport".

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