How many Essex Super 6s are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 44,951 on the road Built 1924-1931 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Essex was Hudson's cheaper companion make. It switched from four cylinders to six in 1924, and from 1927 the car was sold as the Super Six, a name borrowed from Hudson's own famous model. Smooth, cheap and usually closed-bodied, it made Hudson-Essex one of America's biggest sellers of the late 1920s.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1928: 30 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 21 |
| 1928 | 30 |
| 1929 | 24 |
| 1930 | 15 |
| 1931 | 3 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 104 still registered, the Essex Super 6 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 1st of the 3 Essex models and equal 1,038th 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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