Mazda Porter Cab

The Mazda Porter Cab was a small cabover kei pickup truck that Mazda introduced in March 1969 alongside the Porter, with a live rear axle and a 359 cc water-cooled two-stroke two-cylinder engine of 23 PS, the CC, which was Mazda's first two-stroke engine. Its top speed was 90 km/h and its cowlings around the headlights gave it an instantly recognisable surprised look. Later it took the 30 PS two-stroke from the Chantez, and when kei regulations changed in 1976 Mazda bought Mitsubishi's 546 cc engines for the New Porter Cab of 1977. It was labelled E360 in export markets. After twenty years of continuous production with little more than facelifts the Porter Cab was retired in June 1989, replaced by the Autozam Scrum, a badge-engineered Suzuki Carry.