Austin-Healey Sprite

Car Convertible 🕰️ Classic

1 production run · 7 variants · 5 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Austin-Healey Sprite on record.

Netherlands: 1951–1972; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 1987–2023; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 30% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Finland Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Switzerland

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Production history & variants

1 production run · 7 variants · 5 registers with powertrain counts

Powertrain counts straight from official registers, each with what that register counts.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/austin-healey/sprite/full

Registration history

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Netherlands
1951	1
1958	12
1959	49
1960	33
1961	22
1962	7
1963	3
1964	9
1965	7
1966	6
1967	14
1968	6
1969	7
1970	6
1971	2
1972	1

Finland
1987	1
1988	1
1997	1
2001	1
2007	1
2009	2
2014	1
2022	1
2023	1

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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{
  "id": "car/austin-healey/sprite",
  "name": "Sprite",
  "make": {
    "id": "austin-healey",
    "name": "Austin-Healey"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "convertible",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ch",
    "fi",
    "lu",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "eu",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 5,
    "mass_decile": 3,
    "rarity": "average"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/austin-healey/healey-sprite",
    "car/austin-healey/sprite-mark-1",
    "car/austin-healey/sprite-mk",
    "car/austin-healey/sprite-mk-i",
    "car/austin/healey-sprite",
    "car/austin/healey-sprite-mark",
    "car/austin/healey-sprite-mk1",
    "car/austin/healy-sprite"
  ],
  "years": null,
  "era": "classic",
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.3",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.10.3"
  }
}

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