Would you pay so much for a personalized number plate?

Seems such a damn waste of money to me, paying so much money for a few letters and numbers on a little plate on the back of your car.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31765914

My employer has a Ferrari. His number plate is his Ferrari model number. Dont know how much it cost him. I guess each to his own. I wouldnt spend my money that way.

Zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. Over 600 BHP but gets just over 10 mpg around town. Thats just the number plate.

i got mine from the dvla

666

you need to see the whole picture. that plate says a lot about my life

That number plate dont not say BigMac for sure . heheheheheh

Personalized number plates look stupid to me and a waste of money.

The ones that truckers have in their front windscreens like "Big Steve" look just as ridiculous.

I Agree. i saw ones which said "Big Bobby" and i was thinking he dont have to advertise that he has a big bobby. ehehheheheee kidding

BIG DOM!

Rover. not bad

That's a convenient port of call you have stopped outside.

And for all you spelling fanatics, it is personalised (without a zee).

So be honest im very bad is spellings. but then hey ho who cares

Me too.

Good to see you guys buying British.

Rover shut down in 2004. I was just 20 that time

Incorrect. It can be both.
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From Wiki:

§Greek-derived spellings[edit]
§-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization)[edit]
See also: Oxford spelling
Origin and recommendations
The -ize spelling is often incorrectly seen as an Americanism in Britain.[41] However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) recommends -ize and notes that the -ise spelling is from French: "The suffix...whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek -ιζειν, Latin -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic." The OED lists the -ise form separately, as an alternative.[42]
Publications by Oxford University Press (OUP)—such as Henry Watson Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules,[43] and The Oxford Guide to English Usage[44]—also recommend -ize. However, Robert Allan's Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage considers either spelling to be acceptable anywhere but the US.[45] Also, Oxford University itself does not agree with the OUP, but advocates -ise instead of -ize in its staff style guide.[46]
Usage
American spelling avoids -ise endings in words like organize, realize and recognize.[47]
British spelling mostly uses -ise, while -ize is also used (organise/organize, realise/realize, recognise/recognize):[47] the ratio between -ise and -ize stands at 3:2 in the British National Corpus.[48] The spelling -ise is more commonly used in UK mass media and newspapers,[47] including The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Economist. Meanwhile, -ize is used in some British-based academic publications, such as Nature, the Biochemical Journal and The Times Literary Supplement. The dominant British English usage of -ise is preferred by Cambridge University Press.[45] The minority British English usage of -ize is known as Oxford spelling and is used in publications of the Oxford University Press, most notably the Oxford English Dictionary. It can be identified using the registered IANA language tag en-GB-oed.
In Canada, the -ize ending is standard, whereas in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand -ise spellings strongly prevail: the -ise form is preferred in Australian English at a ratio of about 3:1 according to the Macquarie Dictionary.
The same applies to derivatives and inflexions such as colonisation/colonization.
Worldwide, -ize endings prevail in scientific writing and are commonly used by many international organizations, such as the United Nations Organizations (such as the World Health Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization) and the International Organization for Standardization (but not by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). The European Union switched from -ize to -ise some years ago[when?] in its English language publications, meaning that -ize spellings are found in older legislative acts and -ise spellings in more recent ones. Proofreaders at the EU's Publications Office ensure consistent spelling in official publications such as the Official Journal (where legislation and other official documents are published), but the -ize spelling may be found in other documents.
Exceptions
Some verbs ending in -ize or -ise do not come from Greek -ιζειν, and their endings are therefore not interchangeable:

• Some words take only the -z- form worldwide, for example capsize, seize (except in the legal phrase to be seised of/to stand seised to), size and prize (only in the "appraise" sense)
• Others take only -s- worldwide: advertise, advise, arise, circumcise, comprise, compromise, demise, despise, devise, disguise, excise, exercise, franchise, guise, improvise, incise, revise, rise, supervise, surmise, surprise, televise, and wise.
• One special case is the verb prise (meaning to force or lever), which is spelled prize in the US.[49] and prise everywhere else,[50] including Canada,[51] although in North American English it is almost always replaced by pry, a back-formation from or alteration of prise.[52]

Some words spelled with -ize in American English are not used in British English, etc., e.g. the verb burglarize, regularly formed on the noun burglar, where the equivalent in British, and other versions of, English is the back-formation burgle and not burglarise.[53]

Also from OED:
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/

I care as do many others
Spelling is the bedrock of the English language.