How many TVR 400SE are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1990 British
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
One of the last and fastest of TVR's wedge-shaped cars, built from 1988 to 1991. It used a Rover V8 enlarged to 4.0 litres in the angular convertible body that began with the Tasmin, with wider wheels and a rear spoiler. Soon afterwards TVR moved on to the curvier Griffith.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1990.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the TVR 400SE is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 9th of the 11 TVR 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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