1992 Daihatsu Hijet Fire Truck#BUC50627

1992 Daihatsu Hijet, finished in Red — a Japanese-market vehicle now in stock with us. We have it on file as stock number BEtb52. Drive on this Hijet is front-wheel drive. We have 10 pictures of this Hijet here, all of the actual vehicle.

Engine and transmission — Hijet

It runs a 660cc engine. This Hijet is fitted with an automatic gearbox.

Condition and equipment — Hijet

No odometer figure is on file for this 1992 Hijet; the listing records a condition of used. Interior colour is recorded as Grey. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

Background: the Hijet

The Hijet has been in continuous production since November 1960, which makes it the oldest surviving kei nameplate — and in 2021 it took a Good Design Long Life Design Award, a first for Daihatsu. Every four-wheel-drive Minicab from 1984 onward got twelve-inch front disc brakes and automatic free-wheeling front hubs as standard. Trade-spec Hijets were overwhelmingly white; this one is recorded as Red. The Hijet Climber was the first kei vehicle offered with a limited-slip differential, and low-range sub-transmissions were a factory option across several generations. Daihatsu sold the Hijet in an unusually wide spread of factory body styles — flatbed, PTO dump, panel van, canvas top, the extended-cab Jumbo from 1983 and the four-seat Deck Van from 1988 — because Japanese buyers specified them for particular trades.

Buying this 1992 Hijet

A 1992 Hijet is old enough to be simple and new enough to be usable, which is most of why this generation gets exported rather than scrapped. It is on our books as BEtb52, and what this listing records is what we hold on file for it. The asking price is $8,127. Japan raised the kei displacement ceiling to 660cc in January 1990, and the 660cc unit in this 1992 Hijet was engineered to sit just inside it.