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A Look Back On 2021, At Number1Plates

With the current year steaming ahead of us, quicker than we could imagine, we thought it would be insightful to take a look back on 2021 and see what challenges we overcame, amazing things we achieved and contemplate on our year here at Number1Plates.   Northern Enterprise Award We thought that we’d kickstart it off…


MINI Electric Review: A MINI Owners Review of the Electric Hatchback

MINI Electric Review; The Official Guide. Sandal MINI Wakefield recently gave me the new MINI Electric for a few days; to see what I think of the latest variant of their electric hatchback. As a MINI owner, with my 4th on the way, I was given the keys to see what I thought of the…


No Time To Drive: The Top 10 Cars of Daniel Craig’s Bond adventures.

In recognition of Daniel Craig’s last outing as Ian Fleming’s James Bond in the recently released No Time To Die, we’re taking a look at some of the cars used across Craig’s adventures as 007. Of course, there’ll be the usual suspects in there, but we’ve included one or two left field choices too! You’ll…


The dog ate my homework… the parrot ate my logbook!

We all know that losing a document is a real pain, especially when they’re government documents! From leaving it in an old car to just simply misplacing it, we’ve heard it all. Well, that being said, we thought we had heard it all!  The DVLA have recently updated their system of ordering a replacement V5C…


The 7 Coolest Car Features To Date

With the average person spending 37,935 hours driving, it’s no surprise that the car manufacturers are doing all they can to come out with the newest and coolest technology. You might be thinking ‘what more do I need in my car?’ – which is totally OK. Realistically, nobody needs these features, but sometimes a taste…


Adam Lander In The Headlights

Our Ambassador Today… Adam Lander! It’s that time again… meet Adam! We’re proud to introduce Adam as one of our Number1Plates brand ambassadors! We were glad to have a catch up with him and find out some great stuff. From first getting involved with cars to the day-to-day life of a N1P Ambassador!  We can’t…


Our Top 11 Car Customisations

With more than 32 million cars on the road in the United Kingdom (32,697,408 at the last count!), it’s fair to say that we love our cars! Whether they’re a simple run around to get us from A to B or our polished pride and joy, we spend a lot of time in them. In…


Daniel Knight In The Headlights

OUR AMBASSADOR TODAY: DAN KNIGHT Meet Dan, another one of our proud ambassadors for Number1Plates! We spent some time having a chat with Dan to find out some information for you all. We’ve also put his Instagram in further on. You can have a look through his posts, get involved and ask him any further…


The Top 5 Most Powerful Cars In The World

In this post, we’re going to take you through the top 5 most powerful cars, in relation to horsepower alone.  These are from 2020 – so there’s plenty of scope for positions to change in the future. They’ve certainly come a long way already… as the first automobile in 1886 was powered by a 0.75…


The Top 5 Fastest Cars In The World!

Since the start of car production, there’s been an ongoing competition between manufacturers on how fast and powerful they can make their cars.  They’ve come a long way over the years on both of these fronts, but the first ever supercar was built in 1966 with the ‘Lamborghini Miura’ which boasted a top speed of…