Passing in a sub-class to a method but having the super class as the parameter?

I have an abstract class Vehicle with 2 implemented subclasses RedVehicle and YellowVehicle.

In another class I have a List<Vehicle> containing instances of both subclasses. I want to be able to pass into a method a class type and then use that type to decide which set of objects I want to do something to in the List.

Since Class is generic I should parameterise it with something, however putting the parameter as the parent class Vehicle stops the calling code working since exampleMethod is now expecting a type of Vehicle, not a subclass of RedVehicle or YellowVehicle.

I feel there should be a clean way to do this so what would be the correct way to implement the functionality?

n.b. I don't necessarily have to pass in the Class type, if there are better suggestions I'd be happy to try those.

Calling code:

service.exampleMethod(RedVehicle.class);
service.exampleMethod(YellowVehicle.class);

Fields/Method:

//List of vehicles
//Vehicle has 2 subclasses, RedVehicle and YellowVehicle
private List<Vehicle> vehicles;

//Having <Vehicle> as the Class parameter stops the calling code working
public void exampleMethod(Class<Vehicle> type) 
{
    for(Vehicle v : vehicles)
    {
        if(v.getClass().equals(type))
        {
            //do something
        }
    }
}