How many Fiat Abarth 1000s are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1963 European
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Carlo Abarth's Turin tuning firm built its name on the little Fiat 600, and the 1000 was that car taken out to a full litre. In saloon form it was a tiny, fierce racer that ran with its engine lid propped open for cooling and won its class in touring car racing through the 1960s. Abarth used the same name on small coupes built on the 600 floorpan.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1963.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Fiat Abarth 1000 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 54th of the 63 Fiat 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.
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