1994 Daihatsu HiJet Climber – A Smarter Choice Than a Side-by-Side#BUC08642

This is a 1994 Daihatsu HiJet Climber, one of the Japanese imports we currently have available. Drive on this HiJet Climber is four-wheel drive. We have 10 pictures of this HiJet Climber here, all of the actual vehicle.

Powertrain on this HiJet Climber

It runs a 660cc engine. The 660cc engine drives through a 5-speed manual gearbox. 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.

Background: the HiJet Climber

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. 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. Every four-wheel-drive Minicab from 1984 onward got twelve-inch front disc brakes and automatic free-wheeling front hubs as standard.

Odometer and specification — HiJet Climber

Odometer at listing is 30230. No unit was stored with that reading — we quote 30230 as recorded and will confirm from the vehicle on request.

Import and ownership — 1994 Daihatsu HiJet Climber

In Japan a 1994 HiJet Climber would have belonged to a shopkeeper, a small workshop or a farm, which is the sort of use it was engineered around. At 32 years old, this 1994 HiJet Climber is outside the window where federal safety-standard conformity applies to an import. Price on this one is $9,600. Japan raised the kei displacement ceiling to 660cc in January 1990, and the 660cc unit in this 1994 HiJet Climber was engineered to sit just inside it.