How many Volvo 340GL are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1989 European
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Part of Volvo's small 300 series, built in the Netherlands from 1976 to 1991. The design began at DAF, which Volvo had taken over, and early cars used DAF's belt-driven automatic transmission. Unusually for a small hatchback it was rear-wheel drive, with the gearbox mounted at the back.
Still on the road, by model year
2 from 1989.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Volvo 340GL is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 39th of the 41 Volvo models and equal 2,524th 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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