1999 Isuzu Amigo Sport Utility 2-door V6 5 Speed 4x4 No Reserve on 2040-cars
Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States
Item For Sale: 1999 Isuzu Amigo 2 door SUV with 4-wheel drive and removable soft top! These Amigos are rare and hard to find, especially in good running condition.
Options and Accessories: Fuel Injected V6, 5 Speed manual transmission, power steering, brakes, mirrors, locks and windows, pop-up sunroof, soft top, alloy wheels, AM-FM cassette and CD stereo, air conditioning, factory tachometer, push button 4X4 with high-low range floor lever, rear spare tire carrier, taillight guards, rear step bumper, Jet black with gray interior, front bucket seats, rear bench seat, deluxe cloth, etc...COOL LITTLE SUV! Interior Condition: Minor wear/ stains typical of age and use but all in all great condition. Clean, comfortable seats. Prior owner was a smoker, but no noticeable major stains or burns. Body Condition: Excellent, solid, straight and clean original body. Has minor blistering at bottom of rear rocker panels just in front of rear tires but no hols and is just starting to bubble. One spot on the rear door where the metal has been slightly pushed out. On the front driver side, the quarter panel is pushed slightly in on the front edge (see picture). Other than that, the body is very nice and has straight doors, quarters, fenders, , bumpers, etc. Paint Condition: Nice, decent, still pretty shiny overall and appears to be original. Minor scratch or chip here or there but really looks great overall and is very nice. Tire Condition: Almost new, with still about 85% tread on them. Everything is balanced, and tires have been rotated at regular intervals. No shakes or wobbles here! Running/Driving Condition: Starts excellent and runs great. Revs up strong with no hesitations. Transmission shifts through all gears very smoothly, and clutch grabs well. 4X4 engages as it should, and works great. When I first bought the Amigo, I only drove it 140 miles before the original motor threw a rod. I replaced the motor with one from an Isuzu Trooper that had 95K at the time. When the engine was installed, I had my mechanic check the clutch and put a new timing belt on as well. This is one of the best starting engines I've ever seen, and will be a great runner for years to come. Also included with sale is the original engine, to be used at your discretion. Also this model Amigo does not have cruise control, but I have almost all of the parts to get that installed, and shouldn't be a problem, these are all included with sale. Since I've had it, I have installed a good running engine, new Rain X Latitude wipers, 4 new shocks all around, and timing belt. As with all Isuzus with the 3.2 motor, this one does burn oil; about a quart every 800 miles or so. It's easy to stay on top of though, just a quick check when you fill up with gas. Overall, this is an excellent little SUV for going around in style in the Summer with the top down. It gets good mileage (17-19) and is pretty peppy too with plenty of passing power. A hard top and hitch can be added too, parts are readily available. Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, or to come take a test drive before you buy. You won't be disappointed! |
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Junkyard Gem: 2000 Honda Passport 4WD
Sun, Nov 20 2022The suits at American Honda Motor Company must have spent the bulk of the 1990s tearing out their hair in frustration as their rivals raked in big money from the sales of ever-more-profitable SUVs, even as American car shoppers lost interest in sedans and hatchbacks. Oh, sure, the Civic-based CR-V appeared here for the 1997 model year and sold well enough, but the lack of a larger SUV pained Honda more with each passing year. With the Acura MDX and Honda Pilot not ready for showrooms until the 2001 and 2002 model years, respectively, some stopgap had to be found. Isuzu stepped up and made a deal with Honda: the Rodeo would get Honda badges and become the Passport, while the Trooper would show up in Acura showrooms with SLX badges (for the 1994 and 1995 model years, respectively). Here's one of those Passports, found in a Denver-area self-service yard. Things got even weirder in the Isuzu/Honda world around the turn of the century, with the Honda Odyssey getting Isuzu badges and being sold as the Oasis. Fast-forward to 2009, and the only Isuzu-badged vehicles available new here were rebadged Chevrolets: the I-Series pickup (Chevy Colorado) and the Ascender (Chevy Trailblazer). The Passport name has some interesting American Honda history, stretching back to the first Honda vehicle sold here (and the biggest-selling motor vehicle in human history): the Super Cub. American Honda Motor Company couldn't use the Super Cub name on our shores, because Piper Aircraft had been selling a small plane called the Super Cub since 1949, so the motorcycle was called the Honda 50 over here. Eventually, this bike got a 70cc engine and became the Honda C70 Passport, sales of which continued through the middle 1980s. That means the Passports sitting in your local Honda dealership right now got their name from a one-cylinder motorcycle. General Motors has a Passport connection as well; when GM created the Geo brand to sell rebadged Isuzus, Suzukis, and Toyotas in the United States, it created a marque called Passport to sell the Daewoo LeMans as the Optima in Canada (all the other vehicles sold by Passport dealers were Isuzus). So, Honda's need to offer SUVs in its American dealerships led to an arrangement with GM-connected Isuzu to sell these trucks with a model name bearing links to both companies. So much history in the junkyard! Just as Geo-badged Toyota Corollas (mostly) got Delco radios, so did the Passport get Honda radios.
Florida man found dead inside SUV covered in parking tickets
Wed, Dec 7 2016A woman in Fort Lauderdale, FL, got a nasty shock last month when she discovered a corpse sitting at the wheel of a heavily ticketed SUV parked near the Broward County Courthouse. According to the Sun Sentinel, Carolyn White was walking down a street in Fort Lauderdale when she spotted something strange. An Isuzu Axiom with deeply tinted windows was parked at the curb festooned with parking tickets. Curious to find out how someone could get that many parking tickets, she went to investigate. "I was being nosy," she told the Sentinel. "I never let the meter man catch me. I never got a parking ticket and I wanted to know why somebody else got caught. And that's what made me look inside." When she approached the vehicle, she discovered more than just a pile of tickets under the wipers. An elderly man was sitting in the driver's seat, slumped face down over the center console between the seats, clutching a credit card in a still hand. "Oh my God, please tell me this man is not dead," was White's first thought, she told the paper. Unfortunately, he was. The Broward County Medical Examiner stated the man in the SUV, Jacob Morpeau of Miami, had been dead for quite some time when White discovered him. Records show that the Isuzu was ticketed in that space numerous times between November 12 and November 15, including twice in the space of three minutes the morning Morpeau's body was discovered. "I can understand why the meter person probably didn't see him from the driver's side," said White. "He was underneath the steering wheel, his head was in the middle of the seat, between the two seats. But you could see him on the passenger's side. That's how I seen him, from the sidewalk." Fort Lauderdale city officials declined to comment on the incident, but an email from the City Clerk's office stated that the $160 dollars racked up while Morpeau sat dead at the wheel of his SUV would be dismissed due to "extenuating circumstances". News Source: Sun Sentinel Auto News Weird Car News Isuzu SUV parking ticket Florida Man
Junkyard Gem: 2004 Isuzu Axiom
Sat, Jun 10 2023Though the final Isuzu-badged car sold in the United States was the 1993 Isuzu Stylus, Isuzu did very well selling trucks here during the remainder of the 1990s. Things still looked pretty good for Isuzu as the new century dawned, but by then everybody had upped their truck game and many of the competition's offerings made Isuzus seem old-fashioned. Isuzu cooked up a distinctive new body for the Rodeo chassis, arranged to have it built at Subaru's plant in Indiana, and called it the Axiom. You won't see many Axioms today, but I found this last-year-of-production example in an Oklahoma City car graveyard recently. As we all know, the decline and fall of Isuzu in North America accelerated quickly as the 2000s progressed. The VehiCROSS was interesting but just too weird and it got the axe after 2001. The increasingly antiquated Trooper held on through 2002, the Amigo (aka Rodeo Sport) through 2003, and that left just the Axiom and Rodeo to hang on by their fingernails into 2004. By 2005, the only new Isuzu-branded passenger vehicles sold in the United States were two rebadged Chevrolets: the Ascender (Trailblazer) and i-Series pickup (Colorado). In early 2009, Isuzu announced that it would be departing, presumably forever. You can still buy new Isuzu commercial trucks here, of course. The 2004 Axiom had MSRPs starting at $24,849 for the S trim level with rear-wheel-drive and going up to $30,499 for the upscale XS with all-wheel-drive. That's about $40,703 and $49,958 in 2023 dollars. Joe Isuzu was brought back after a decade of retirement to pitch the Axiom. Note that Joe's brag in this commercial is how much cheaper the Axiom was than the Volvo Cross Country. This truck is the cheap Axiom S 4x2, which still seems well-appointed. The 2004 Axiom's 3.5-liter V6 engine made 250 horsepower and 246 pound-feet, up from 230 horsepower and 230 pound-feet in the 2002-2003 Axioms. The power improvements were the result of the switch to gasoline direct injection fuel delivery for the '04 Axiom. Isuzu was so proud of the system that it applied these badges. The only transmission available was a four-speed automatic. The Axiom was introduced to the American public as the SPYMobile in the 2001 film "Spy Kids." The body and interior of this one appear to be nice enough for a 19-year-old vehicle, so we can assume that it showed up in this place as the result of expensive mechanical problems. We'll get to the Joe Isuzu ads in a moment.