1999 Subaru Sambar Dias#BUC75319

Currently available: a 1999 Subaru Sambar, finished in Green, imported by us from Japan. Drive on this Sambar is four-wheel drive. We have it on file as stock number 1VIwAM. We have 15 pictures of this Sambar here, all of the actual vehicle.

The 1999 Sambar in context

The name comes from the sambar deer, in keeping with the rest of Subaru's naming of that era. Subaru gave the Sambar four-wheel independent suspension from the very first 1961 model, at a time when Japanese passenger cars mostly did without it — struts at the front, semi-trailing arms at the rear. Subaru's Sambar was the first ordinary kei truck and cab-van offered with four-wheel drive, from 1980.

1999 Subaru Sambar: engine, gearbox and running gear

Under it is the EN07, a 660cc 4-cylinder engine. The EN07 is a genuine four-cylinder in a kei-sized package. Subaru kept building it long after almost everyone else had settled on three cylinders, and it is the single biggest reason Sambars have their own following. Drive reaches the road through a manual gearbox, four-wheel drive. By 1999 the four-cylinder kei engine had become a rarity, and the EN07 was the one still in volume production.

Recorded condition of this 1999 Sambar

The odometer reads 83,413 mi and the listing records a condition of used. Interior colour is recorded as Grey. Fuel type on file is Gasoline.

Where a Sambar earns its keep

Four-wheel drive in a van body is an unusual combination outside Japan, and it is the reason these get used well past the end of the pavement. We describe what is recorded and nothing more. If a figure is not on this page, it is because we do not have it on file. The asking price is $4,977.