How many Kaiser Manhattans are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1953 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The top model from Kaiser, the car company founded after the Second World War by American shipbuilding magnate Henry J. Kaiser. The Manhattans of the early 1950s wore low, graceful bodies by designer Howard Darrin, with a distinctive dip in the top of the windscreen, and later ones could be had with a supercharger.
Still on the road, by model year
2 from 1953.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Kaiser Manhattan is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 2,524th of the 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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