How many Vanden Plas Princess 4 Litre R are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1966 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
A British luxury saloon with a Rolls-Royce engine. Built from 1964 to 1968, it took the Vanden Plas Princess body and fitted a 3.9-litre six-cylinder engine made by Rolls-Royce, the R of the name. It was one of the very few times Rolls-Royce supplied a car engine to another maker.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1966.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Vanden Plas Princess 4 Litre R is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 2nd of the 2 Vanden Plas 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.
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