France license plate: W garage 2026
Issued today 2026 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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W-999-LL, for exampleW-789-KJ(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Same trade W, same grammar, the decode moved into the colour. Black on pink exists only from 1 January 2026, so a pink W plate dates itself: no French plate wore pink before.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2026 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FF41B2 - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- W GARAGE FROM 1 JANUARY 2026, black on PINK. The most useful new date signal in European plate data: a pink French plate cannot predate 2026, and before 2026 no French instrument prescribed any colour for these plates at all. Note also what the change reveals about French plate law's shape, the pink plate had to be exempted from the 1996 homologation arrêté to exist, because a pink retroreflective product is not a homologated type.
Legal basis and sources
- annexe 7 item 4 (version en vigueur depuis le 01/01/2026): 'Le numéro d'immatriculation est reproduit sur chaque plaque d'immatriculation en caractères noirs sur fond rose.' https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050
- arrêté du 21 novembre 2025 (NOR INTS2532392A) art. 1 (inserts annexe 7 item 4), art. 2 (inserts art. 1 bis and the pink coordinates into the arrêté du 15 avril 1996), art. 3 ('Le présent arrêté entre en vigueur le 1er... https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000052971649
- annexe VII B: the W garage number composition, unchanged https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is fr-wgarage-2026. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of France's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fr-wgarage-2026")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-wgarage-2026.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-wgarage-2026/template.svg
