1999 Daihatsu Hijet#BUC37047

Our stock includes this 1999 Daihatsu Hijet, finished in Silver — a right-hand-drive Japanese import. We have it on file as stock number 2904, chassis S210P0030439. We have 16 pictures of this Hijet here, all of the actual vehicle.

The mechanical side of this Hijet

The engine is recorded as the EF. 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. Behind the Silver bodywork sits a manual gearbox.

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. 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. The EF here belongs to a Daihatsu engine family that ran for well over a decade across the company's kei range. A 1999 Hijet sits in the middle of a production run that has outlasted most of the companies that started building trucks alongside it.

1999 Daihatsu Hijet: recorded details

It shows 3,500 mi on the clock, with a condition of used on file. Interior colour is recorded as Grey.

What a Hijet is good for

A Hijet is not a substitute for a full-size pickup so much as a replacement for the trips where a full-size pickup was always overkill. It is on our books as 2904, and what this listing records is what we hold on file for it. Price on this one is $9,764.