OK, then, I mean yesterday, before you read the headline. If so, you are a better person than I am. I am a sucker for oddball vehiclesβyou know, the kind that languish in showrooms and within five years are remembered by virtually nobody. Today we have such a vehicle. Just how obscure is this one? Poor Isuzu. Other than the Trooper of the s and the Rodeo SUV that you read about here last week, have they ever been able to build a vehicle that more than a couple of hundred people in the entire U.
In a way, Isuzu is sort of like Peugeotβrevered and successful throughout the developing world, yet unable to even sniff at success in America. And poor Paulβis this an American or Asian truck? From through , Isuzu built its own pickup cleverly named the Isuzu Pickup , in Lafayette, Indiana.
Related to the Rodeo also built in Lafayette , the little truck was known worldwide as the TF or third series pickup, and as the Faster in its home market.
After the model year, production of the vehicle was discontinued at the Lafayette plant, although it continued to be built for another seven years elsewhere in the world. One may presume that Isuzu figured to sell more Passports through Honda dealers than it could sell pickups sorry, I mean Pickups through its own dealers.
So, you ask and quite reasonably : Why is he talking so much about the TF series that came before the Hombre rather than the Hombre itself?
