1994 Mitsubishi Minicab · 83,885 mi

Here is a 1994 Mitsubishi Minicab, wearing White, imported from Japan and available to buy now. Transmission is 5-speed manual. Recorded against chassis U42T-0227532.

The numbers

• Year: 1994
• Make: Mitsubishi
• Model: Minicab
• Chassis code: U42T
• Transmission: 5-Speed Manual
• Odometer: 83,885
• Engine: 3 cylinder
• Colour: White
• Chassis number: U42T-0227532
• Body type: Kei Truck / Mini Truck
• Stock reference: BUC95072

The U42T Minicab, in context

U42T is the four-wheel-drive Minicab truck Mitsubishi built from 1991 to 1998, with the 657cc 3G83 three-cylinder beneath the cab. Work specifications of this chassis were offered with a two-speed transfer case and a crawler gear, and the Minicab was one of the few kei trucks sold with a factory power-take-off for driving a tipper or a pump. Mitsubishi also supplied this generation to Nissan as the Clipper.

Odometer: 83,885 miles, near 135,000 km. The 3G83 was Mitsubishi's standard kei commercial engine for two decades, which tells you what duty cycle it was engineered around.

In use

A kei truck is a cab-over flat-bed engineered to a statutory 3.4-metre length limit, which is why the driver sits over the front axle and the engine lives beneath the floor. Nearly the whole footprint becomes load deck. That packaging is the reason a vehicle shorter than most hatchbacks carries a bed an ordinary pickup would recognise.

Below $5,000 you are buying age and mileage rather than specification. What you get for it is a road-registerable vehicle with a real bed and a real cab for less than a decent side-by-side costs.

The buying process

Built in 1994, it sits the far side of the 25-year federal import cut-off. We take care of the entry documents and the title, then arrange shipping to wherever you are. Asking $4,906. Contact us and we will reserve it against your name.