1999 Daihatsu Hijet Mini Truck, Kei Truck - Boeki USA#BUC17283

This is a 1999 Daihatsu Hijet Truck finished in White, one of the Japanese imports we currently have available. Drive on this Hijet Truck is four-wheel drive. 10 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

Under the skin of a 1999 Hijet Truck

The engine is recorded as the EF. The EF lives under the seats in a Hijet, which is why the bench tips forward and the service points face upward. This Hijet Truck is fitted with a 5-speed gearbox.

What we have on record for this Hijet Truck

The White bodywork sits over an odometer reading of 15446, with a Japanese auction grade of 4/B recorded. That reading of 15446 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

1999 Daihatsu Hijet Truck: the background

Four-wheel-drive Hijets were aimed at farm and forestry work, which is where the sub-transmission low range and the differential locks in this family come from. 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. Trade-spec Hijets were overwhelmingly white; this one is recorded as White. Daihatsu supplies the Hijet to other makers for rebadging — Toyota since 2011, Subaru since 2012 — and it was licence-built abroad as the Piaggio Porter in Italy and the Asia Towner in Korea.

Practicalities of this Hijet Truck

Farms, vineyards, ranches, grounds crews and building sites are where Hijet Trucks end up in the US, for the same reasons they ended up there in Japan — Japanese sources describe the kei truck as a necessity for moving tools, crops and catch. A 1999 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold. The asking price is $6,700.