1997 Honda Acty Van#BUC07416

Our stock includes this 1997 Honda Acty Van, finished in Gray — a right-hand-drive Japanese import. Its model code is recorded as V-HH3, which makes it a HH3 chassis, and drive is two-wheel drive.

Body and payload on this Acty Van

On the paperwork it measures 330cm × 140cm × 188cm. The documents give a kerb weight of 850kg, a rated load capacity of 200kg and 8.68m³ of measured cargo volume. Recorded as Kei van, Vans with seating for 4, model year 1997. Carrying 200kg on a 850kg kerb weight is the kind of ratio that only comes from designing the whole vehicle around the load.

The paperwork on this 1997 Acty Van

A 1997 vehicle showing 111600 km, recorded with a condition of used.

About the 1997 Honda Acty

The Acty's defining trick is where the engine lives: mounted transversely amidships under the load bed rather than under the cab. It looks like a cab-over, but structurally it is a mid-engined vehicle. By 1997 Honda had been iterating on the Acty for well over a decade, and it shows in how resolved the packaging is. Cab-over packaging puts the driver ahead of the front axle, which is how Honda got a working bed onto a vehicle only 330cm long overall.

Mechanical specification of this Acty Van

Power comes from the E07A, a 660cc unit. Honda built the E07A oversquare — a 66.0mm bore against a 64.0mm stroke — which is why it would rather rev than lug. The HH3 runs a 5-speed manual gearbox.

Owning an Acty Van

A closed body keeps the load dry and locked, which is the trade you make against the open bed of the truck version. At 29 years old, this 1997 Acty Van is outside the window where federal safety-standard conformity applies to an import.