1996 Mitsubishi Minicab 4x4 · 23,121 mi

Landed and available: this 1996 Mitsubishi Minicab, recorded as White, ready to go out to you. It has a manual box. The chassis identifier is U42T-0403977.

Where the U42T Minicab fits

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.

The odometer sits at 23,121 miles, in the order of 37,200 km in the original units — a modest figure for a Mitsubishi kei vehicle returning from Japanese service.

As listed

• Year: 1996
• Make: Mitsubishi
• Model: Minicab
• Chassis code: U42T
• Transmission: Manual
• Odometer: 23,121
• Engine: 3 cylinder
• Colour: White
• Chassis number: U42T-0403977
• Body type: Kei Truck / Mini Truck
• Stock reference: BUC40751

The practical side

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.

Under $5,000 is the entry point for an imported kei truck in the United States, and it generally means an older vehicle with a higher reading on the clock rather than a compromised one. Our kei truck price guide sets out what separates the bands.

How to take it

A 1996 build date places this vehicle beyond the 25-year threshold that governs importing a non-US-market car into the United States. Import documentation and titling are handled at our end, and we ship nationwide. The figure is $4,906, and a message is all it takes to put it aside.