How many Nissan Datsun Trucks are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1987 Japanese import
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The Japanese-market name for Nissan's one-tonne pick-up, which stayed a Datsun at home long after the badge was dropped elsewhere. By the later 1980s that meant the D21, the squared-off model sold in America as the Hardbody, with petrol or diesel engines and two or four-wheel drive.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1987.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Nissan Datsun Truck is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 97th of the 102 Nissan models and equal 2,668th 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?
Spotto grades every car on New Zealand roads by how many are still registered, down to the generation and the badge. Log the ones you spot, build a collection, and see who else has found one.