1998 Subaru Sambar Truck#BUC50622

A 1998 Subaru Sambar Truck in our current inventory, finished in White, brought in out of the Japanese domestic market.

1998 Subaru Sambar Truck: the background

Subaru built the Sambar in-house from 1961 until the last one left the line on 29 February 2012, after which the badge moved onto a rebadged Daihatsu. A 1998 vehicle comes from the in-house era. The cab seats 2, and with no engine underneath it there is no transmission tunnel or heat soak to work around. Putting the engine under the bed was a deliberate load-carrying decision: on a kei truck the difference between empty and laden is enormous, and the engine acts as ballast over the driven axle when the bed is empty.

The paperwork on this 1998 Sambar Truck

It shows 54200 km on the clock, with a condition of used on file.

Body and payload on this Sambar Truck

Recorded dimensions are 330cm long, 140cm wide and 183cm tall. Recorded figures include a kerb weight of 680kg, a rated load capacity of 350kg and 8.45m³ of measured cargo volume. Registration on this Sambar Truck records 2 seats and a body type of Kei truck, Trucks.

Mechanical specification of this Sambar Truck

Power comes from the EN07, a 660cc unit. By 1998 the four-cylinder kei engine had become a rarity, and the EN07 was the one still in volume production. The KS3 runs a 5-speed manual gearbox.

Owning a Sambar Truck

Two seats and a working bed is the whole proposition: this was built to carry things, not people. This 1998 Sambar Truck spent its working life on Japanese registration, where a light goods vehicle faces its first statutory shaken inspection at two years and another every two years after that.