How many Mazda B1600s are left in New Zealand?
Scarce 1 in 9,042 on the road Built 1971-1988 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Mazda's 1.6 litre B-series pickup of the 1970s, a simple rear-wheel-drive light ute. It is the truck Ford sold in America as the first Courier, and the one that gained a rotary engine to become the Rotary Pickup. Later B-series models took the same naming for bigger engines.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1979: 56 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 2 |
| 1972 | 19 |
| 1973 | 13 |
| 1974 | 33 |
| 1975 | 37 |
| 1976 | 30 |
| 1977 | 39 |
| 1978 | 21 |
| 1979 | 56 |
| 1980 | 50 |
| 1981 | 23 |
| 1982 | 48 |
| 1983 | 23 |
| 1984 | 29 |
| 1985 | 31 |
| 1986 | 19 |
| 1987 | 26 |
| 1988 | 18 |
What Scarce means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 517 still registered, the Mazda B1600 is Scarce: the grade for cars with 175 to 1,199 left.
By how many are left it ranks 31st of the 71 Mazda models and 602nd 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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