How many TVR Tasmins are left in New Zealand?
Super rare 1 in 779,145 on the road Built 1980-1989 British
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The first of the wedge-shaped TVRs, launched in 1980 with sharp, folded-paper styling by Oliver Winterbottom, who had earlier worked at Lotus. It used a 2.8-litre Ford V6 and came as a coupe, a 2+2 and a convertible. The shape sold slowly at first but carried TVR through the 1980s.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1988: 2 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 1 |
| 1982 | 1 |
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 1 |
What Super rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 6 still registered, the TVR Tasmin is Super rare: the grade for cars with 5 to 24 left.
By how many are left it ranks 5th of the 11 TVR models and equal 2,199th 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.