How many Triumph TR2s are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 93,497 on the road Built 1953-1956 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The first of the TR sports cars, built from 1953 to 1955. Triumph gave it a 2.0-litre engine developed from the Standard Vanguard's, and it was good for 100 mph at a modest cost. A lightly modified car reached nearly 125 mph on the Jabbeke motorway in Belgium in 1953, which made the model's name.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1954: 30 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1954 | 30 |
| 1955 | 16 |
| 1956 | 2 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 50 still registered, the Triumph TR2 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 14th of the 25 Triumph models and equal 1,313th 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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