1998 Suzuki Carry Truck#BUC39514

A 1998 Suzuki Carry Truck in our current inventory, finished in Gray, brought in out of the Japanese domestic market.

1998 Suzuki Carry Truck: the background

Carrys were mostly ordered in plain white for trade use; this one is Gray. Japanese buyers bought Carrys by the hundred thousand for farms, markets and building sites, so a 1998 example is the product of decades of unglamorous refinement. Suzuki was candid about who the Carry was for: individual shopkeepers, small workshops, and agriculture, forestry and fisheries. It has sold a dedicated farm grade with a differential lock continuously.

Body and payload on this Carry Truck

On the paperwork it measures 330cm × 140cm × 172cm. The documents give a kerb weight of 650kg, a rated load capacity of 350kg and 7.94m³ of measured cargo volume. Body type on the 1998 paperwork reads Kei truck, Trucks, seating 2. Carrying 350kg on a 650kg kerb weight is the kind of ratio that only comes from designing the whole vehicle around the load.

The paperwork on this 1998 Carry Truck

It shows 82300 km on the clock, with a condition of used on file.

Mechanical specification of this Carry Truck

Power comes from the F6A, a 660cc unit. The F6A ran for years across Suzuki's entire small-vehicle range, so it is about as well-understood as a Japanese engine gets. The DC51T runs a 5-speed manual gearbox.

Owning a Carry Truck

In Japan a 1998 Carry Truck would have belonged to a shopkeeper, a small workshop or a farm, which is the sort of use it was engineered around. Built in 1998, this Carry 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. It is listed at $4,600.