How many Datsun 140J are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 179,803 on the road Built 1973-1978 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The export name for the Datsun Violet with a 1.4-litre engine. The Violet arrived in 1973 as a new model between the Sunny and the Bluebird, at first with swoopy fastback styling and then, from 1977, as a plainer square-cut car. It was conventional throughout: front engine, rear-wheel drive, built to be dependable.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1973: 18 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1973 | 18 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1978 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 26 still registered, the Datsun 140J is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 12th of the 27 Datsun models and equal 1,575th 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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