Subaru Sambar

The Sambar is a cabover truck and microvan that Subaru has made and sold since 1961 as Japan's second truck in the strict Kei vehicle tax class, after the Kurogane Baby. It remains in production, now in its eighth generation, beginning with the seventh generation as a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet. The first generations used a rear engine, rear wheel drive layout with a body on frame, and the engine of the Subaru 360 and later of the Rex, Vivio and Pleo. The name comes from a species of deer. Passenger versions were later marketed as the Subaru Dias Wagon. This site gives every generation and every model year its own page, in 8 generations: the first generation (1961 to 1965); the second generation (1966 to 1972); the third generation (1973 to 1981); the fourth generation (1982 to 1989); the fifth generation (1990 to 1998); the sixth generation (1999 to 2011); the seventh generation (2012 to 2013); the eighth generation (2014 on).