How many left / Armstrong Siddeley
How many Armstrong Siddeley Lancasters are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1948 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
A four-door saloon announced in May 1945, in the same week the war in Europe ended, which made it one of Britain's first new post-war cars. Armstrong Siddeley's parent company built aircraft, and the car was named after the Avro Lancaster bomber. It used a six-cylinder engine and could be had with a preselector gearbox.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1948.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Armstrong Siddeley Lancaster is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 5th of the 5 Armstrong Siddeley models and equal 2,668th of all 2,903 cars in Spotto's catalogue.
The six grades: Common, 8,000 or more · Uncommon, 1,200 to 7,999 · Scarce, 175 to 1,199 · Rare, 25 to 174 · Super rare, 5 to 24 · Unicorn, fewer than 5.
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