How many Mercedes-Benz 220S are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 74,204 on the road Built 1956-1965 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Six-cylinder Mercedes saloon of the late 1950s and early 1960s, in two shapes. The first was the rounded Ponton; from 1959 came the Fintail, named for the modest American-style fins on its rear wings. The Fintail was the first production car designed with crumple zones around a rigid passenger cell, the work of safety engineer Béla Barényi.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1964: 14 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 3 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 2 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 6 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 63 still registered, the Mercedes-Benz 220S is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 54th of the 102 Mercedes-Benz models and equal 1,223rd 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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