How many Standard SIX are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1962 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The Vanguard Six, one of the last cars to carry the Standard name in Britain, built from 1960 to 1963. It put a new 2.0 litre six-cylinder engine into the Vanguard body restyled by Vignale. The car was soon gone, but the engine went on to power the Triumph 2000 and, enlarged, the TR5 and TR6.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1962.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Standard SIX is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 5th of the 5 Standard 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?
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