How many BMW M140I are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 40,651 on the road Built 2016-2019 European
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Sold from 2016 to 2019 as the replacement for the first M135i, with a newer 3-litre turbocharged straight six and rear-wheel drive in a small hatchback body. Nothing else in the class was built that way, and when the front-drive 1 Series arrived it became the last of its kind.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 2018: 46 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 27 |
| 2018 | 46 |
| 2019 | 35 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 115 still registered, the BMW M140I is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 33rd of the 53 BMW models and equal 1,017th 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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