How many Talbot 14-45s are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1927-1928 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The car that saved Clement-Talbot. Swiss engineer Georges Roesch designed it quickly for 1926 around a small, smooth six-cylinder engine of under 1.7 litres, and it sold well enough to rescue the London firm. Every later Roesch Talbot, up to the Le Mans cars of the 1930s, grew from this design.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1927 and 1 from 1928.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Talbot 14-45 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 4th of the 6 Talbot models and equal 2,524th 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.