How many Austin 16s are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 103,886 on the road Built 1928-1949 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
A name Austin used twice. The Sixteen of the late 1920s and 1930s was a six-cylinder family car. The post-war Sixteen of 1945 put a new 2.2-litre four, Austin's first overhead-valve car engine, into a pre-war body, and that engine went on to power the A70 and, enlarged, the Austin-Healey 100.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1928: 10 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1928 | 10 |
| 1929 | 9 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1946 | 3 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 45 still registered, the Austin 16 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 19th of the 40 Austin models and equal 1,357th 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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