SAVA J4

The SAVA J4 was a forward-control light van built in Valladolid, Spain, by Sociedad Anónima de Vehículos Automóviles between 1965 and 1989. It was a licensed copy of the British Morris Commercial J4, also sold as the Austin J4 and later the BMC J4, and the first Spanish vans carried the British layout with left-hand drive, a sliding driver's door and an unusual reversed gear pattern. After Enasa bought SAVA the van was sold as the Pegaso SAVA J4 and by the 1980s simply as the Pegaso J4. It came as a glazed nine-seat combi, a five-seat mixed version, a pickup and a chassis-cab, and only diesel engines of 1.5 and 1.8 litres were fitted in Spain. The body was redesigned in 1974 with a black grille and rectangular headlamps, and the 700, 800, 1000 and 1100 names that followed referred to payload and permitted weights. Production ended in 1989 and the Pegaso Ekus replaced it.