How many Mazda 929s are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 34,374 on the road Built 1974-1994 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Export name for the Mazda Luce, the firm's large rear-wheel-drive flagship, from 1973 into the 1990s. Early ones shared a body with the rotary RX-4. Later generations grew into roomy V6 luxury sedans and pillarless hardtops, the last of them the car sold in Japan as the Sentia.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1976: 25 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 1 |
| 1975 | 14 |
| 1976 | 25 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 3 |
| 1981 | 3 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 3 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 136 still registered, the Mazda 929 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 43rd of the 71 Mazda models and equal 948th 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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