1999 Daihatsu Hijet#BUC20997

Currently available: a 1999 Daihatsu Hijet, finished in White, imported by us from Japan. The chassis code on this one is S210P, and drive is four-wheel drive. We have it on file as stock number -oPhy8, chassis S210P-0032599. 39 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

About the 1999 Daihatsu Hijet

Daihatsu is Toyota's small-vehicle specialist and the Hijet is the product it has spent longest refining — sixty-plus years of iteration on a single idea, and it shows in how resolved the details are. 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. In Mitsubishi's scheme the S210P letter gives the body and the number gives the drive, and the pairing repeats generation by generation.

What is on file for this Hijet

It shows 54,008 mi on the clock, with a condition of used on file. Interior colour is recorded as Gray. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

How this 1999 Hijet is put together

The engine is recorded as the EF. The EF lives under the seats in a Hijet, which is why the bench tips forward and the service points face upward. The EF drives through a manual gearbox. The EF family powered Daihatsu's kei vehicles for well over a decade, and its longevity is a reasonable proxy for how sound the basic design was.

Living with a Hijet

Plenty of buyers keep a Hijet looking exactly as it arrived; this one is White and presented as we received it. Built in 1999, this Hijet is 27 years old and clears the 25-year threshold at which imported vehicles are exempt from US federal motor vehicle safety standards conformity. Price on this one is $7,245.