How many Vauxhall 12s are left in New Zealand?
Super rare 1 in 212,494 on the road Built 1934-1949 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Vauxhall's 12 horsepower family cars of the 1930s and 1940s. The name first went on the smaller-engined Light Six of 1933, a six-cylinder saloon, and from 1938 on a four-cylinder model built without a separate chassis, like the smaller Ten. A version of it returned briefly after the war.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1948: 9 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1948 | 9 |
| 1949 | 2 |
What Super rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 22 still registered, the Vauxhall 12 is Super rare: the grade for cars with 5 to 24 left.
By how many are left it ranks 14th of the 38 Vauxhall models and equal 1,643rd 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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