2000 Honda Acty · 4WD · 49,003 mi

A Japanese import you can buy now — this 2000 Honda Acty, listed as While. On the paperwork it is 4WD with a manual box. The chassis identifier is HA7-3100289.

Know the HA7 Acty

The HA7 is the four-wheel-drive truck from the Acty generation Honda launched in 1999 and built until 2009. It uses the fuel-injected 656cc E07Z in the same mid-mounted position as every Acty before it, and it was the first Acty designed to the wider post-1998 kei dimensions. Honda offered a real-time system on many HA7s, which sends torque forward automatically when the rear wheels slip rather than waiting to be switched.

Recorded mileage is 49,003, equivalent to roughly 78,900 km in the units the gauge reads. Honda's E07-series triples are small-capacity commercial engines designed for a long duty cycle, and readings in this part of the range are common across the Acty's export population.

The numbers

• Year: 2000
• Make: Honda
• Model: Acty
• Chassis code: HA7
• Drivetrain: 4WD
• Transmission: Manual
• Odometer: 49,003
• Engine: E07Z
• Colour: While
• Chassis number: HA7-3100289
• Body type: Kei Truck / Mini Truck
• Stock reference: BUC66676

The configuration

A four-wheel-drive Acty takes its front drive from a transfer unit behind the mid-mounted engine and runs it forward beneath the cab. The arrangement is the reverse of a conventional truck, and it leaves the load bed completely unobstructed. For yard work, a smallholding or a site road, the useful part is that the driven rear axle carries both the engine and the payload.

This is the middle of the kei truck market. A 2000 Honda Acty at this money is the ordinary working configuration rather than a specialist one: a straight bed, a common chassis, and the parts supply that comes with a model sold in volume.

To proceed

At 2000 it is past the 25-year mark, which is the line that decides whether a Japanese-market vehicle can be imported at all. Customs entry, import documentation and title work are all done here, and we arrange transport to any state. Listed at $7,106 — tell us it is the one and we will take it off the market.