How many Bentley Speed SIX are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1929 British
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Sporting version of the 6 1/2 Litre and the most successful racing Bentley. It won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1929 and 1930 with company chairman Woolf Barnato among the drivers, and W.O. Bentley considered it his best car. Barnato's race against the Blue Train across France was also run in one.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1929.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Bentley Speed SIX is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 21st of the 22 Bentley 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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