After some success supplying General Motors with Pickup trucks are faster the badge is Chevrolet LUV in North America (plus some Chevette-related Geminis are labeled “Isuzu’s Buick/Opel,” confusing people), Isuzu started selling cars under his own name here in the early 1980s. At first, we just had I-Mark subcompact and P’up pickup truck. afterward Soldier SUV appeared in 1984, and Isuzu entered the suburban market vans game in a big way. For the 1989 model year, the Amigo small three-door convertible SUV has landed on our shores. This is one of those early trucks, found in…rad conditions in a recent San Francisco Bay Area self-catering yard.
After Isuzu created a version with five doors and a hardtop, giving it the Rodeo badge in the process, the Amigo became something of an afterthought in the Isuzu world of North America. Amigo sales paused here after 1995, then resumed for 1998-2000 (then tam quan becomes Rodeo sports before disappearing in 2003).
Starting in 1996, Isuzu replaced its Amigo platform-related pickup with a Chevy S-10 is called hombre. That means Spanish-speaking Isuzu shoppers might be baffled by the possibility of buying a car. friend or one Man. The company Isuzu itself is named after a river in Mie province.
The suzuki samurai started the “cute-ute” craze for the 1986 model, with Suzuki’s companion/Geo tracker appeared in 1989. Around the same time, unpleasant pastel colors and doodle graphics has become fashionable. This – and Another unfortunate 1980s fashion – continued well into the 1990s (One man’s “unpleasant” and “unfortunate” are another’s “interesting” – Ed).
This odometer cannot get it right! I suspect a damaged speedometer cable.
The engine is a 4-cylinder in-line, with a capacity of 2.6 liters, a capacity of 119 horsepower.
Unlike Honda’s VTEC, the variable cam system first launched in 1989 Honda IntegraIsuzu’s name I-TEC is just an abbreviation for electronic fuel injection system.
Amigo’s only transmission for the first few years was a five-speed manual transmission, fitted in this truck. That three-pedal setup makes the Amigo’s appeal limited to a small group of clutch-ready American drivers. An optional automatic transmission was available in 1992. You can buy the all-wheel-drive Amigo, but this is a cheaper rear-drive version.
This interior looks so good that maybe this Amigo is really did get garbage with more than 57,000 on odometer. California BAR . Vehicle Inspection Smog test history (by plugging in a VIN), I found that the last time it passed – and passed – a smog test in 2010. Maybe something broke at 18 and it was in the garage. until its last owner abandoned it.
That sucks, because this pickup truck is going to crash at Radwood.
This ad is for the second generation Amigo, but it’s not to be missed out of homage to old Slinky ads.
Because nearly every Isuzu (and Daewoo and Suzuki too) is sold under different names elsewhere in the vast region. GM Empire of the 1990s, this is an advertisement for Opel Frontera for the German market.
