Mexico license plate: CDMX private car 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2016. Standard plates for car, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, CDMX private car 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016), sample 274-DNK

Format, years and the law

Format
999-LLL, for example 274-DNK (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
Documented 2001 to 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
One-back DISTRITO FEDERAL private car format. Note the name change the instruments record: the 2000 NOM says Distrito Federal throughout, the 2016 NOM says Ciudad de México throughout, the 2016 constitutional reform is visible in the plate law. The format also inverts: 000-AAA became A00-AAA.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Apéndice C row 7 'Transportes Privados (Distrito Federal), Automóviles, 000-AAA' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774741&fecha=26/01/2001

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-cdmx-private-car-2001. 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-private-car-2001")'