The N10 was engineered and built by Hino Motors, not Toyota’s own factories, to replace the smaller Hino-derived Briska.[1] US-bound trucks were shipped as a bare chassis cab and had their beds built and fitted locally in Long Beach. This was a deliberate piece of tariff engineering to reduce the 25% “chicken tax” on imported light trucks to a 4% rate on chassis alone.
The wheelbase field on this entry is a genuine data problem in the source
rather than a conversion trap. The article’s own infobox states the
short-wheelbase figure as 4,215 mm, identical to its own separately stated
overall length for the same body, which cannot be correct, since a vehicle’s
wheelbase is always shorter than its overall length. The long-wheelbase
figure given alongside it, 2,785 mm, is shorter still, confirming something
is transposed or mislabelled in the source. Rather than guess which number
belongs where, this entry records the wheelbase as conflicting-sources
with a null value.