Nick Singh Sahota Collection

Nick Singh Sahota: The Man, The Cars, and the Plates There are car collectors, and then there is Nick Singh Sahota. Based in England, Nick has spent years building one of the most talked-about private car collections in the United Kingdom. A purpose-built garage housing over twenty cars, a fleet spanning every generation of BMW M cars, Ferraris, Hummers, Mercedes-Benz including a G Wagon and a Maybach, Range Rovers, Rolls-Royces, and RUF-built Porsches. He is not a content creator by trade. He is a petrolhead with the means and the obsession to act on it, and the collection reflects every bit of that. As testament to his standing in the enthusiast world, Nick competed in the 2025 Gumball Rally, one of the most prestigious car events on the planet. What makes Nick's story particularly compelling from a number plate perspective is that the plates are treated with exactly the same seriousness as the cars. Without even covering the entire collection, there are hundreds of registrations spanning every format in existence, from dateless originals through to current style. Some of the most desirable plates in the country sit here, several of which will, by Nick's own intention, never come to market. The Personal Plates The most intimate registrations in the collection are the ones that carry Nick's identity directly. S411 OTA sits on the Maybach and reads as Sahota, his surname, on one of the most fitting car and plate pairings in the collection. S 6, worn by the G Wagon, is a beautifully short dateless that again carries the initial of his surname with quiet authority. NS 1 combines his initials with the number one, while N1 CKS and N11 CKS both read NICKS, held as a pair rather than allowing one to drift to another owner. 6 NS adds a further layer, a dateless Sutherland-issued registration released at the June 1992 DVLA auction, and alongside it 11 NS , also from Sutherland, which came out at the November 1992 auction. Two plates from the same Scottish county, acquired thirty years apart from the same auction house, now sitting in the same collection. The Statement Plates BEA57T and B3 AST are the plates that stop people mid-scroll. Both read as BEAST. B3 AST was issued by Inverness in 1984 and is considered the closest any private registration gets to spelling the word outright. The two formats, decades apart in their issue, sit together in one collection. 834 UTY reads as BEAUTY for those who look closely enough, the 8 for B, the 3 for E, the 4 for A. Beast and Beauty under the same roof. EXO 71C , a London-issued suffix plate that came to Nick via the December 2003 DVLA auction, leans into the exotic thread that runs throughout the fleet. U AS5 is the one that raises a smile, the kind of plate that says something about the collector's sense of humour without needing any further explanation. The Dateless Highlights 9 R is the one that deserves its own paragraph. Issued by Derbyshire in 1960, this two-character dateless was kept within the same family for almost seventy years before Nick acquired it. The kind of provenance that the private plate market rarely gets to see. Nick has since sold it, which will make it one of the most closely watched plates when it resurfaces. Whoever holds it next inherits a remarkable piece of British registration history. 61 EN , 8 XM , 6 JX , and 1 NNN each represent different corners of the dateless market, with 1 NNN standing out as a triple-letter combination that very few collections of any scale can claim. What the Collection Represents The variety of vehicles tells you something important. Hummers and a Maybach. G Wagons and BMW M cars from every decade of the M division's history. A collection like this is not assembled in a single shopping spree. It is built over years of genuine passion for cars across different eras, nationalities, and characters, with the plates following exactly the same logic. Some of the registrations here will never change hands again. That is increasingly the reality with collections of this quality, as the best plates are held rather than traded, leaving buyers searching the market for combinations that quietly sit behind closed garage doors. A sincere thank you to Nick Singh Sahota for the access and the generosity in allowing this collection to be covered. It was, quite simply, one of the finest private plate and car combinations we have encountered.