How many Oldsmobile Curved Dash are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1904 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The first car built in real volume. Ransom Olds put his little single-cylinder runabout into production in Michigan in 1901 and built it in the thousands on an early form of assembly line. It was steered by a tiller, and the name comes from the footboard that curls up at the front like a sleigh. It inspired the 1905 song In My Merry Oldsmobile.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1904.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 9th of the 13 Oldsmobile 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.