1995 Daihatsu Hijet Mini Truck, Kei Truck - Boeki USA#BUC62962

A 1995 Daihatsu Hijet Truck in our current inventory, finished in White, brought in out of the Japanese domestic market. Drive on this Hijet Truck is four-wheel drive. 10 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

The 1995 Hijet in context

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 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 Hijet Climber was the first kei vehicle offered with a limited-slip differential, and low-range sub-transmissions were a factory option across several generations.

What is on file for this Hijet Truck

It shows 44053 on the clock, with a Japanese auction grade of 4/B on file. The source recorded no unit alongside that figure, so 44053 is reproduced exactly as stored rather than converted.

How this 1995 Hijet Truck is put together

The engine is recorded as the EF. A 1995 Daihatsu on the EF is running the engine family the company built its kei reputation on. Behind the White bodywork sits a 5-speed 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 Truck

Plenty of buyers keep a Hijet Truck looking exactly as it arrived; this one is White and presented as we received it. At 31 years old, this 1995 Hijet Truck is outside the window where federal safety-standard conformity applies to an import. Price on this one is $5,700.