How many Wolseley 14/56 are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 2,337,436 on the road Built 1936 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
A six-cylinder saloon of the mid 1930s, from the period when Wolseley, by then owned by Lord Nuffield, built upmarket overhead-valve relatives of Morris cars. With about 1.8 litres it was smooth rather than fast, and cars of this family were widely used by British police forces.
Still on the road, by model year
2 from 1936.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 2 still registered, the Wolseley 14/56 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 20th of the 23 Wolseley 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.
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