1998 Mitsubishi Minicab#BUC48158

Here is a 1998 Mitsubishi Minicab, finished in Red, imported from Japan and offered by Bucks Mini Trucks. We have it on file as stock number 0vwl6M, chassis U42T0527428. Drive on this Minicab is four-wheel drive. 37 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

Specifics for this Minicab

Recorded against this 1998 Minicab: 7,985 mi on the odometer and a condition of used. Interior colour is recorded as Grey. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

The 1998 Minicab in context

The later Minicab looks semi-cab-over because Mitsubishi pushed the front axle forward for a crush zone, but the engine still sits under the driver's seat, so structurally it remained a cab-over. By 1998 the Minicab had been in production for thirty years, and the design had long since stopped needing to prove itself. Four-wheel-drive Minicabs were specified for exactly the conditions this one was built for — wet fields, gravel tracks and loading yards. Mitsubishi launched the Minicab in 1966 and kept it in the range for decades, making it one of the older continuously-built kei trucks.

Minicab: engine and drivetrain

Drive reaches the road through a manual gearbox, four-wheel drive.

Ownership and import of this Minicab

Four-wheel drive on a Minicab was specified in Japan for field and forestry work, not for road holding. This 1998 Minicab spent its working life on Japanese registration, where a light goods vehicle faces its first statutory shaken inspection at two years and another every two years after that. Price on this one is $10,017. Japan's kei category exists because small vehicles are taxed and registered differently there, and the Minicab was built specifically to qualify.