How many Wolseley 12-16s are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 4,674,872 on the road Built 1914 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
One of the four-cylinder touring cars Wolseley built in Birmingham in the years before the First World War. At that time the company, owned by the Vickers engineering group, was among the biggest car makers in Britain. The 12/16 was one of its smaller models, sitting below the 16/20.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1914.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 1 still registered, the Wolseley 12-16 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 21st of the 23 Wolseley 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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