AutoblogGreen has reason to be happy, having found evidence that Toyota’s recent purchase of a 5.9% stake in Isuzu will bear fruit in 2010 when the Japanese juggernaut marries its Synergy hybrid drive system with a diesel engine. Presumably such a hook up was made possible, or at least hastened, by the expertise in diesels [...]
Automobile Magazine took a previously loved Isuzu Trooper to a car shredder and, just for us machine freaks, shot video of its aged, slab-sided body disappearing forever into the 6,000 horsepower jaws of automotive death. It’s amazing how quickly the device of destruction chews from the Trooper’s smashed-in front bumper to its rear-view-impinging spare tire.
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Toyota announced today that it will spend $373 million on a deal with Isuzu that will transfer 5.9% of the truck- and diesel-maker to the giant Japanese automaker. Toyota’s goal in purchasing a stake in Isuzu is to bolster its diesel portfolio, which apparently lags behind other major automakers like cross-town rival Honda who announced [...]
Isuzu Motors announced today that Mitsubishi Corp. has become its top shareholder after increasing its share of the automaker from 3.5 percent to 15.65 percent. Mitsubishi Corp, the huge conglomerate that also owns 13 percent of Mitsubishi Motors Corp, first scooped up a share in Isuzu when General Motors dropped back its stake in the [...]
Photo: Chris Belanger
We love seeing interesting police cars, and by “interesting,” we mean a car that does not have an available factory police package. With that in mind, you can imagine the smile that crossed our faces when we opened an email from reader/tipster Chris Belanger. Chris saw something parked in Montecito, CA that definitely [...]
Isuzu hardly has a leg left to stand on in North America, but elsewhere in the world its trucks are being bought by the hundreds of thousands. The D-Max shares its underpinnings and much of its sheetmetal with the brand’s i-280 and i-350 pickups, as well as our own Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon. The [...]
General Motors and Isuzu Motors Ltd. will get together for another joint venture to start developing new pickups together for emerging markets. The JV, called LCV Platform Engineering Corp., has worked together successfully before on pickup development and production, and despite GM having sold off much of its Japanese investments (Isuzu, Suzuki, Subaru, etc.), the [...]
The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration has announced that General Motors is recalling over 400,000 pickup trucks due to
malfunctioning brake lights. While the automaker is unaware of any accidents resulting from the problem, trucks also
outfitted with cruise control lose that functionality as well. Trucks affected are the 2004-2006 Chevrolet
Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups and 2006 Isuzu i-280 [...]