1997 Daihatsu Hijet#BUC46924

1997 Daihatsu Hijet, finished in Black/Silver two-tone — a Japanese-market vehicle now in stock with us. We have it on file as stock number 225, chassis S110V027585. Drive on this Hijet is rear-wheel drive. 17 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

Condition and equipment — Hijet

Odometer at listing is 65,865 mi; the paperwork gives a condition of used. Interior colour is recorded as Gray cloth. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

Engine and transmission — Hijet

It runs a 660cc 3-cylinder engine. This Hijet is fitted with an automatic gearbox.

What a Hijet is

Trade-spec Hijets were overwhelmingly white; this one is recorded as Black/Silver two-tone. 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. Daihatsu supplies the Hijet to other makers for rebadging — Toyota since 2011, Subaru since 2012 — and it was licence-built abroad as the Piaggio Porter in Italy and the Asia Towner in Korea. 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.

Buying this 1997 Hijet

A closed body keeps the load dry and locked, which is the trade you make against the open bed of the truck version. What you see is what we have: a Black/Silver two-tone Hijet on our lot, not a listing for a vehicle still in an auction hall. The asking price is $6,615. Japan raised the kei displacement ceiling to 660cc in January 1990, and the 660cc unit in this 1997 Hijet was engineered to sit just inside it.