Honda's first production car was not a motorcycle or a sports car but the T360, a kei pickup truck.
Lead trim: T360 356 cc AK250E DOHC I4 (30 PS) · up to 37 hp
Honda T360 / T5001963–1967
- 0spots by members
- Unclaimednobody has spotted one yet
- 0sets it belongs to
Nobody in Burbles has spotted a Honda T360 / T500 yet. See one on the street, point the app at it, and the first card is yours — with your @handle permanently credited on this page.
FactHonda's first production car was not a motorcycle or a sports car but the T360, a kei pickup truck.
Introduced in June 1963, the T360 kei truck was Honda's first production automobile, beating the S500 by four months. Its mid-mounted 356 cc AK250E DOHC inline-four, shared with the S360 roadster prototype, made 30 PS at 8,500 rpm and drove the rear wheels through a four-speed manual. It was built as a pickup, a flatbed, a folding-side flatbed and a covered van, and a tracked "Snow Crawler" version was also offered. The larger T500, with a 531 cc engine of 38 PS, sat outside the kei class and was mainly built for export. 108,920 T360s were made through August 1967, all painted May Blue.
Collectors Spotted in the Honda T360 Lineage
No member has published a public street spot of the Honda T360 yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T360 356 cc AK250E DOHC I4 (30 PS) | 1963–1967 | 0.4 L Inline-4 | 30 hp | — | — | RWD | manual | — |
| T500 531 cc AK280E I4 (38 PS) | 1964–1967 | 0.5 L Inline-4 | 37 hp | — | — | RWD | manual | — |
Owning one
We don’t estimate running costs for a car like this. What it costs depends on its condition, its specialist and how it is driven, and an average would mislead.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
When Mazda's E2000 — the truck that became the Titan — launched in January 1964, the factory was tasked with building 1,900 of them a month.
Swaraj Mazda built this truck under license in India from 1985, and the plant survived name changes all the way to SML Isuzu.
Indonesia built this pickup for 28 years with no successor, the last one leaving the Jakarta line in January 2019 after 324,960 units.
Suzuki's first-ever diesel engine, fitted to the Super Carry, is so small that it isn't able to power an air-conditioning system at all.
A right-hand-drive DJ-3A was built so postal drivers could reach roadside mailboxes without leaving the seat.
The Power Wagon name and civilian pickup design were derived directly from the WC-series military trucks Dodge built for World War II.
Suzuki kept the L20 Carry at the exact same 21 hp as its predecessor but still called it progress — the gain was a patented Cylinder Crank Injection lubrication system, not more power.
This generation of Titan quietly became the ancestor of two other trucks entirely: it was license-built by Kia as the Kia Titan in South Korea, and formed the basis of the Australian Ford Trader.