1991 Subaru Sambar#BUC39516

1991 Subaru Sambar, finished in White — a Japanese-market vehicle now in stock with us. We have it on file as stock number yaPf7V, chassis KS3046624.

Condition and equipment — Sambar

The White bodywork sits over an odometer reading of 30,086 mi, with a condition of used recorded. Interior colour is recorded as Grey. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

Engine and transmission — Sambar

The engine is recorded as the EN07A. The EN07 is a genuine four-cylinder in a kei-sized package. Subaru kept building it long after almost everyone else had settled on three cylinders, and it is the single biggest reason Sambars have their own following. The 1991 Sambar came with a manual gearbox, and that is what this one has.

1991 Subaru Sambar: the background

Enthusiasts nicknamed the rear-engined Sambar the "agricultural Porsche", and the joke does real work: rear engine, rear drive, four cylinders, independent suspension all round. Putting the engine under the bed was a deliberate load-carrying decision: on a kei truck the difference between empty and laden is enormous, and the engine acts as ballast over the driven axle when the bed is empty. When production ended, the supercharged EN07 was the only supercharged engine left in any Japanese car, kei or otherwise — the Sambar was the last kei truck you could order with forced induction.

Buying this 1991 Sambar

Plenty of buyers keep a Sambar looking exactly as it arrived; this one is White and presented as we received it. Bucks Mini Trucks buys and delivers Sambars like this one; we are the seller, not a broker for someone else's stock. The asking price is $5,985.