Mexico license plate: 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, Private car 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016), sample GBL-52-13

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-99-99, for example GBL-52-13 (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
THE ONE-BACK national private car format, three letters and two two-digit groups, the shape most Mexicans still picture when they picture a plate. PERIOD DISCIPLINE, and it matters here: 2001 is an INSTRUMENT date, not a first-issue date.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NOM-001-SCT-2-2000, Apéndice C Normativo, row 8 'Transportes Privados (Entidades Federativas), Automóviles, AAA-00-00' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774741&fecha=26/01/2001
  2. NOM-001-SCT-2-2000 numeral 5.1.1 (300 x 150 mm) and the 'entrará en vigor sesenta días naturales después de su publicación' clause https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774737&fecha=26/01/2001
  3. 2016 NOM Transitorio SEGUNDO, the cancellation that ends this period https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

Before and after

This plate in your app

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