How many Wolseley 18/85 are left in New Zealand?
Rare 1 in 111,306 on the road Built 1939-1972 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
Wolseley used the number twice. The first 18/85, a six-cylinder saloon launched in 1938, was a favourite police car, and one was driven from London to Cape Town in record time just before the war. The second, from 1967, was the Wolseley version of BMC's roomy front-wheel-drive 1800.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1970: 11 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1948 | 4 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 2 |
What Rare means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 42 still registered, the Wolseley 18/85 is Rare: the grade for cars with 25 to 174 left.
By how many are left it ranks 5th of the 23 Wolseley models and equal 1,390th 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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