How many Bentley 6 1/2 Litres are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1927-1929 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
W.O. Bentley's six-cylinder car, launched in 1926 to carry the large, heavy bodies that customers were fitting to the 3 Litre. It was smoother and far more powerful, and its sporting version, the Speed Six, won Le Mans in 1929 and 1930.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1927 and 1 from 1929.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Bentley 6 1/2 Litre is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 20th of the 22 Bentley models and equal 2,524th 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.
Seen one?
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