1996 Mitsubishi Bravo Kei Van – Full-Time 4WD – Auto – 46K Miles · 46,292 mi

Up for sale: a 1996 Mitsubishi Bravo Kei Van – Full-Time 4WD – Auto – 46K Miles, brought in from the Japanese domestic market. On the paperwork it is 4WD with an automatic box. Quote stock BUC17284 when you get in touch.

Key figures

• Year: 1996
• Make: Mitsubishi
• Model: Bravo Kei Van – Full-Time 4WD – Auto – 46K Miles
• Drivetrain: 4WD
• Transmission: Automatic
• Odometer: 46,292
• Engine: 660cc
• Body type: Kei Van
• Stock reference: BUC17284

The Bravo Kei Van – Full-Time 4WD – Auto – 46K Miles explained

Japan's kei class is a legal category, not a marketing segment: through the 1990s it capped engines at 660cc and bodies at 3.30 metres long by 1.40 metres wide, and every manufacturer engineered precisely to those limits. The packaging efficiency that follows — a cab pushed to the front bumper, a flat floor, an engine tucked under the seats — is the whole appeal.

Recorded at 46,292 miles, which is about 74,500 km. Mitsubishi's 3G83 three-cylinder ran in the Minicab for more than twenty years across two chassis generations, so it is a thoroughly proven unit in this application.

What the specification means

A four-wheel-drive kei van is a small, dry, lockable load box that will still leave a sealed road. The engine sits under the cab floor in the usual kei arrangement and the front axle is selected from inside, so the van drives as a rear-driver until it needs not to. Within the class this is the most practical all-weather configuration there is.

Kei vans above $8,000 tend to be passenger-trimmed versions — seats, glass, trim, air conditioning — rather than plain cargo shells, or later chassis built on the wider post-1998 kei dimensions.

How to take it

Built in 1996, it sits the far side of the 25-year federal import cut-off. We handle the import and title paperwork, and delivery is available to all fifty states. The figure is $9,800, and a message is all it takes to put it aside.