How many Messerschmitt KR200s are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1958-1959 European
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
A three-wheeled bubble car from the aircraft maker Messerschmitt, designed by Fritz Fend and built from 1955, when Germany needed cheap transport. Driver and passenger sit one behind the other under a hinged clear canopy, like a fighter cockpit. Its small two-stroke engine has no reverse gear: it is stopped and restarted running backwards.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1958 and 1 from 1959.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Messerschmitt KR200 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.
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