How many Wolseley 4/50 are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 1,558,291 on the road Built 1949-1952 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
The smaller of Wolseley's two new post-war saloons, built from 1948 to 1953. It shared its body with the Morris Oxford of the time but had a traditional Wolseley grille and a 1.5-litre overhead-camshaft engine. The six-cylinder 6/80 was its longer-nosed big sister.
Still on the road, by model year
1 from 1949 and 2 from 1952.
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 3 still registered, the Wolseley 4/50 is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks 19th of the 23 Wolseley models and equal 2,454th 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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