How many DKW 3=6 are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1955 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The name was a piece of arithmetic: DKW argued that its three-cylinder two-stroke fired as often as a six-cylinder four-stroke, so three equals six. Sold from 1953 to 1959, it was a front-wheel-drive saloon with a buzzing 900cc engine and a freewheel, from the Auto Union group that would later become Audi.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1955.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the DKW 3=6 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 2nd of the 2 DKW 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.
Seen one?
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