How many Jeep DJ are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1970-1978 American
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The Dispatcher, a two-wheel-drive version of the CJ Jeep sold for light delivery work. The best known are the DJ-5 postal Jeeps: right-hand drive, with a boxy hard cab and sliding doors, used by American mail carriers for decades. Later ones were built by AM General rather than Jeep itself.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1970 and 1 from 1978.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Jeep DJ is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 18th of the 19 Jeep models and equal 2,524th 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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