How many Humber Snipes are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 108,718 on the road Built 1930-1967 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Humber's big six-cylinder car of the 1930s, launched for 1930 around the time the Rootes brothers took charge of the company. It was a large, comfortable saloon for the professional classes, and later gave rise to the more powerful Super Snipe that outlived it.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1962: 8 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 1 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 43 still registered, the Humber Snipe is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 4th of the 10 Humber models and equal 1,377th 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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