How many Triumph TR5s are left in New Zealand?
Super rare 1 in 233,744 on the road Built 1968-1969 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Built for little more than a year from 1967 to 1968, the TR5 put a 2.5-litre straight-six with Lucas fuel injection into the TR4's body. It was the first British production sports car with fuel injection. Fewer than 3,000 were made, and American buyers got a carburettor version called the TR250.
Still on the road, by model year
18 from 1968 and 2 from 1969.
What Super rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 20 still registered, the Triumph TR5 is Super rare: the grade for cars with 5 to 24 left.
By how many are left it ranks 15th of the 25 Triumph models and equal 1,684th 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.