Junkyard Gem: 1992 Isuzu Amigo

After some success providing General Motors kicsi Faster pickups badged as Chevrolet LUVs in North America (plus some Chevette-related Geminis labeled “Buick/Opel by Isuzu,” which confused everybody), Isuzu began selling vehicles under its own name here in the early 1980s. At first, we just got I-Mark subcompacts és a P’up pickups. Majd the Trooper SUV appeared in 1984, and Isuzu joined the suburban-commuter teherautó game in a big way. For the 1989 model year, the little Barát three-door convertible SUV landed on our shores. Here’s one of those early trucks, found in still-rad condition in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service yard recently.

Once Isuzu made a version with five doors and a solid roof, giving it Rodeó badges in the process, the Amigo became more of an afterthought in the North American Isuzu world. Amigo sales halted here after 1995, then resumed a 1998-2000 közötti időszakra (after which the three-door became the Rodeo Sport before disappearing in 2003).

Starting in 1996, Isuzu replaced its Amigo-platform-related pickup with a rebadged Chevy S-10 néven the Hombre. That meant that Spanish-speaking Isuzu shoppers could be disturbed by the prospect of buying a barát vagy férfi. The Isuzu company itself was named after a river in Mie Prefecture.

A suzuki szamuráj kicked off the “cute-ute” craze for the 1986 model year, with the Suzuki Sidekick/geo-tracker appearing in 1989. Around the same time, irritating pastel colors és a squiggly graphics became trendy. This — and other unfortunate 1980s fashions — continued well into the 1990s (One man’s “irritating” and “unfortunate” is another’s “delightful” – Ed).

This odometer nem tud be right! I suspect a broken speedometer cable.

The engine is a 2.6-liter inline-four rated at 119 horsepower. 

Eltérően A Honda VTEC, the variable-cam-timing system that made its debut in the 1989 Honda Integra, Isuzu’s I-TEC name just stood for an electronic fuel injection system. 

The only transmission in the Amigo for the first couple of years was a five-speed manual, which is in this truck. That three-pedal setup kept the Amigo’s appeal limited to the small group of American drivers willing to work a clutch. The optional automatic became available for 1992. You could get the Amigo with four-wheel drive, but this one is the cheaper rear-wheel-drive version.

This interior looks so nice that perhaps this Amigo really tett get junked with 57,000+ on the odometer. Checking the California BAR’s Vehicle Smog Check history (by plugging in the VIN), I see that it last took — and passed — a smog check in 2010. Perhaps something broke at age 18 and it sat in a garage until its last owner finally gave up on it.

Which is too bad, because this little truck would have been a hit at Radwood.

This commercial is for the second-generation Amigo, but it’s a must-see due to the homage to the old Slinky ads.

Because just about every Isuzu (and Daewoo és a Suzuki, for that matter) was sold under different names elsewhere in the sprawling GM Empire of the 1990s, here’s a commercial for the German-market Opel Határ.

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