Mexico license plate: CDMX dealer

Issued today 2016 to today. Dealer plates for car, truck, bus, trailer, and motorcycle, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, CDMX dealer (2016 to today), sample DM-TG-7

Format, years and the law

Format
DM-LL-9, for example DM-TG-7 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, truck, bus, trailer, and motorcycle.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Ciudad de México DEMOSTRACIÓN (dealer/demonstration) plates. The only Mexican series whose leading group is a fixed literal, DM, which makes it the one Mexican plate a machine can classify with certainty from the first two characters.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 6 'Transporte Privado, Demostración, Ciudad de México (Todo tipo de vehículos), DM-AA-0' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice C 'DM-AA-1 - DM-ZZ-9'; Apéndice A Figura 12 (cinco caracteres) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-cdmx-dealer-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-cdmx-dealer-2016")'