How many Renault Alpines are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 137,496 on the road Built 1965-2022 European
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Alpine was founded in Dieppe by Jean Rédélé to build light, rear-engined sports cars from Renault parts, and Renault later bought it. The low fibreglass A110 won the first World Rally Championship for makes in 1973. The A310 and V6 GTA followed, and the name returned in 2017 on a new mid-engined A110.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1987: 7 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1965 | 1 |
| 1970 | 1 |
| 1982 | 1 |
| 1986 | 1 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1990 | 3 |
| 1997 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 34 still registered, the Renault Alpine is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 15th of the 42 Renault models and equal 1,469th 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.
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