Japan's first purpose-designed four-wheel-drive scout car, and one of the first in the world: about 4,700 built between 1936 and 1944 — 4,775 counting minor changes — on a 2,000 mm wheelbase, 3,600 mm long, 1,520 mm wide, 1,680 mm high and 1,100 kg, with an air-cooled overhead-valve 45° V-twin of 1.2, 1.3 or 1.4 litres giving 33 PS at 3,300 rpm. Three seats, two in front and one behind, 75 km/h and 450 km.
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The Type 95 was designed by Tetsuji Makita and built at Ōmori in Tokyo. An air-cooled twin was an unusual choice for a military vehicle and a deliberate one: nothing to freeze in Manchuria, nothing to boil in the tropics, and no radiator to lose to a bullet. It was offered as a two-door roadster, a two-door pick-up and a four-door phaeton, and it predates the American jeep by five years. Survivors are very rare.
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Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: researched
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