How many Cadillac 353s are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1929 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Cadillac's V8 car for 1930, named for the 353 cubic inch capacity of its engine. It sat below the mighty V16 introduced the same year and shared much of the look. Like other Cadillacs of the time it had the synchromesh gearbox the company had pioneered a couple of years earlier.
Still on the road, by model year
2 from 1929.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Cadillac 353 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 20th of the 23 Cadillac 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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