How many Rover 100s are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 71,921 on the road Built 1959-1997 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Two quite different Rovers. The first 100 was a version of the upright P4 saloon, sold from 1960 with a 2.6 litre six. The second was the Metro hatchback, renamed Rover 100 in the mid-1990s, which was withdrawn in the late 1990s after a poor result in the new European crash tests.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1962: 24 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 1 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 19 |
| 1962 | 24 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1993 | 2 |
| 1994 | 4 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 65 still registered, the Rover 100 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 12th of the 30 Rover models and equal 1,213th 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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