Daihatsu Hijet

The Daihatsu Hijet is a small van and pickup truck made by Daihatsu. Despite the apparent harmony between the Hijet name and Toyota's naming scheme for it's trucks and vans (Hiace, Hilux), the name "Hijet" has been in use for Daihatsu's kei trucks and vans since at least the 1970s, over 2 decades before the 1990s merger of Toyota and Daihatsu. The name "Hijet" when transliterated into Japanese differs in only the first character from "Midget," the name of one of Daihatsu's other mini-trucks.

The current (as of February 2006) MSRP for a new base model Hijet Truck is 698,250 yen. Available engines for 2006 include the DVVT equipped 660cc EF-VE, making 39kW at 7000 RPM and 63Nm of torque at 4000 RPM, and the 660cc EF-SE, making 33kW at 5900 RPM and 57Nm of torque at 3600 RPM. The base model is mid-engine, rear drive. AWD is available as an option on some models, making the Hijet one of a handful of mid-engine, AWD vehicles. (Most other vehicles with that layout are supercars.)