How many Fiat 126s are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 161,202 on the road Built 1978-1986 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The replacement for the Fiat 500, launched in 1972 with the same recipe: a tiny air-cooled twin in the tail and room for four at a squeeze, now in a squarer body. Most were built in Poland, where it was called the Maluch, the little one, and put a whole country on wheels. Polish production ran until 2000.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1981: 15 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 1 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 2 |
| 1986 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 29 still registered, the Fiat 126 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 29th of the 63 Fiat models and equal 1,532nd 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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