1998 Daihatsu Hijet Truck#BUC27160

A 1998 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. We have 10 pictures of this Hijet Truck here, all of the actual vehicle.

1998 Daihatsu Hijet Truck: engine, gearbox and running gear

The engine is recorded as the EF. A 1998 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.

About the 1998 Daihatsu Hijet

Trade-spec Hijets were overwhelmingly white; this one is recorded as White. A 1998 Hijet sits in the middle of a production run that has outlasted most of the companies that started building trucks alongside it. 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.

Recorded condition of this 1998 Hijet Truck

It shows 54246 on the clock, with a Japanese auction grade of 4/B on file. The source recorded no unit alongside that figure, so 54246 is reproduced exactly as stored rather than converted.

Where a Hijet Truck earns its keep

A Hijet Truck 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. Built in 1998, this Hijet Truck is 28 years old and clears the 25-year threshold at which imported vehicles are exempt from US federal motor vehicle safety standards conformity. Price on this one is $5,700. Everything about a kei vehicle follows from the class rules — width, height, displacement and the shape of the cab are all downstream of the same regulation.