1999 Mitsubishi Mini Pajero, SUV#BUC96296

This is a 1999 Mitsubishi Mini Pajero finished in Black, one of the Japanese imports we currently have available. Drive on this Mini Pajero is four-wheel drive. We have 10 pictures of this Mini Pajero here, all of the actual vehicle.

What we have on record for this Mini Pajero

Recorded against this 1999 Mini Pajero: 67290 on the odometer and a Japanese auction grade of 4/B. That reading of 67290 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

Under the skin of a 1999 Mini Pajero

The engine is recorded as the 4A30. Mitsubishi reserved the 4A30 for the passenger-oriented models rather than the plain working trucks, which is why it turns up far less often. The 1999 Mini Pajero came with an automatic gearbox, and that is what this one has. The 4A30 is the rarer of Mitsubishi's two kei engines — a four-cylinder rather than a three, which makes it unusually smooth for the class. The point of four-wheel drive here is being able to finish the job in conditions that would strand a two-wheel-drive truck of the same weight.

Practicalities of this Mini Pajero

Right-hand drive, Black paint and a domestic-market specification are all part of the appeal rather than problems to be solved. A 1999 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold. The asking price is $6,700. Since October 1998 the kei limits have been 3,400mm long, 1,480mm wide and 2,000mm tall, and a 1999 vehicle was designed to exactly those numbers. Domestic-market cars like this were built for Japanese roads, Japanese inspection regimes and Japanese buyers, and they show it.