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Rarer?

In the Iberian Peninsula, 128K models were all over the place.

Obviously since it was initially an Investronica (local Sinclair distributor) initiative.

Not really in UK or other European countries (besides the Amstrad almost-knockoff).

Most other European countries were C64 and MSX territory.

It is strange that on UK, Speccy birthplace they were apparently rare, given all the Crash and Your Sinclair magazines I owned at the time, and related content.

Sinclair didn't bring the 128K+ to the UK until early 1986 because he wanted to run down the 48K+ stock at Christmas.

Amstrad bought Sinclair in spring 1986 and they ran down the remaining 128K+ stock, meanwhile the grey +2 was already ready to manufacture - they'd already designed the case and reversed engineered the 128K+ to get a head start. It was in the shops by that autumn.

That caught my attention right away! I was not aware of the 128K Spectrum until today. About time to learn :-)

I've got no figures to hand obviously, but I'd be very surprised if the 128 (including +2 and +3) didn't outsell the 48K.