1992 Subaru Sambar#BUC55565

On offer here is a 1992 Subaru Sambar, finished in Blue, sourced and imported by Bucks Mini Trucks. We have it on file as stock number iXLRby, chassis KV3084887. Drive on this Sambar is rear-wheel drive. 11 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

Engine and transmission — Sambar

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

Condition and equipment — Sambar

The Blue bodywork sits over an odometer reading of 28,663 mi, with a condition of used recorded. Interior colour is recorded as 2 tone blues. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

The 1992 Sambar in context

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. 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. The name comes from the sambar deer, in keeping with the rest of Subaru's naming of that era. 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.

Buying this 1992 Sambar

Farms, vineyards, ranches, grounds crews and building sites are where Sambars end up in the US, for the same reasons they ended up there in Japan — Japanese sources describe the kei truck as a necessity for moving tools, crops and catch. A 1992 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold. Price on this one is $4,536.