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Isuzu CO-A, 1983. A targa-roofed concept presented at the 25th Tokyo Motor Show that previewed the second generation Gemini/i-Mark. The concept was characterised as a ‘communications capsule for open-air motoring’. Thought the JT150 series Gemini/i-Mark was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro the CO-A was designed at Isuzu
#Isuzu#Isuzu CO-A#Isuzu Gemini#Isuzu i-Mark#concept#prototype#design study#open roof#targa#roof#1983#25th Tokyo Motor Show#show car
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#animated gif#animated gifs#gif#gifs#old advertisements#old ads#retro#vhs#cars#J-turn#Isuzu Gemini#tailgating#headgating#close driving#80s#france#reverse
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RB Holden Gemini SL-E.
Rare to see these in Australia now. Top of the range SL-E version even rarer especially in this condition. Australia only got boring engine options. Low powered petrol or even lower powered diesel motors. Marketed as an economy car unlike in Japan where you could get twin cam and turbo versions with suspension upgrades to suit.
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STOP IT THOSE ARE THIRD GENERATION OPEL KADETTS >:( IT EVEN SAYS SO ON THE LAST ONE'S PLATE! LOOK! EVEN WIKIPEDIA SAYS-
Hm. I guess the world has a lot of very different views on what this is called.
You can just feel a weird story coming, can't you. And indeed, our story starts in '73, with the other war America is losing.
The United States are having an existential crisis over the discovery that oil is a finite resource, the hours spent lined up in front of starving gas stations have given Americans time to realize cars that use less of it are neat, so their own country's cars are getting positively barbecued by 'imports', i.e. cars made abroad. Some could argue it took 'domestic' brands around a decade to cobble together decent competition, and in that timespan foreigners were left free reign to gather an unprecedented foothold - American brands would never return to their domination of their home market. The local automotive output was so dire they became known as "malaise era" cars: the larger offerings that practically symbolized the country got shrunken in size and neutered in sportiness to cope with the wimpier engines caused by the new emission standards, and, while the foreigners moved ungodly numbers of the fuel efficient small cars they'd been making all along, yankees were pathetically scrambling to figure out what the hell 'small car' meant. And here's a hint: if you're bragging about how large it is you've not got it yet.
Oh, and it gets worse! But to learn just how much, since even those familiar with my engine layouts post may not have a sense of scale for engine size or even know precisely how it's measured, we must make a brief stop at the explanation station! Choo Choo! The combustion chamber, the volume above the piston in which the combustion happens, shrinks and expands as the piston goes up and down its travel (whose length, you'll love this one, is called 'stroke'). The change in volume between the top and bottom of the cylinder's stroke, aka the volume of air the cylinder's movement displaces, is called cylinder displacement. Add up the displacement of every cylinder and that's your engine displacement! See? That was easy!
As this stolen and pefrectionistically tweaked graphic points out, displacement is expressed in two ways: - cc, or cubic centimeters - ci, or cubic inches While in ci even large displacements remain in the hundreds, in cc even small displacements reach the thousands, so what in ci is a 250 engine in cc would be a 4096 engine, which really lacks a ring to it. Usually, then, such an engine would be called a 4.1, being pretty much 4.1L because 1L is 1000cc - how cool is having a measurement system codified by people who actually knew what they were doing? Really guys you should give metric another shot sometime.
And now, an example for scale: I happen to own one of the small cars that was whipping yankee ass the hardest (bar perhaps the Viet Congs' jeeps) - a first generation Volkswagen Golf, that reached their shores as Rabbit. It was sold with four cylinder engines, the wimpiest -that would be mine- a 1.1L, the mightiest a 1.6 - and the spicy sporty version, the GTI, with its splitter and wider fenders and sick ass wheels made out of the P of tire supplier Pirelli...
...that little riot, in its last years, got upgraded to -huzzah- a 1.8!
The Pacer, meanwhile?
Okay, it was also offered with six cylinder engines as small as 3.8L -not even four times the size of mine!- and the V8 was just for those who wanted something faster. Which made me wonder: if the GTI hit 100 km/h (that's 0-60 for you yankees) in 8 seconds, what'll the V8 Pacer's time be? And so I looked it up, got lost in laughter, and desperately looked for other figures because they cannot possibly be talking about the V8, and then realizing that no, the V8 really did 0-60 in fourteen seconds, and laughing for other minutes.
I could bring more examples, but in short, to call the American small car offerings especially inadequate would be charitable. But what if they didn't try to make a decent small car? Wouldn't it be better to just let the foreigners figure it out, and then ship some units over to sell under a brand of their own? Well, that's the idea behind captive imports, the name given to vehicles born through this specific form of badge engineering. And what better foreign manufacturer for General Motors to hit up than Opel, the German vehicular colossus that GM happened to own and already have been importing cars of, selling them through Buick dealers! So essentially, GM needed dear god anything acceptable badly, and decided to bring over what someone else had cooked up and spotted the right business from inside the house. However, the Steamed Hams parallels end here, because they openly sold it as the Opel Kadett it was. While it still was.
But due to that whole crisis thing, the Deutschmark rose in value relative to the American dollar (so, for the economically inept, the same amount of Destumchrak cost more dollars to obtain) such that, while Opel asked for the same Dusthemcrhak for each car, the cost to Buick rose past sustainability. And, to save you the short story about the boss's lover answering the phone, they did what you do when a supplier's nationality causes their product to skyrocket in cost: find a supplier elsewhere. See, normally badge engineered cars can be split between those jointly developed by two manufacturers and ones merely picked up by another manufacturer after the fact. This, instead, was both, since Opel developed it with help from Japanese manufacturer Isuzu, which themselves made and sold it as the Isuzu Bellet Gemini at first and later just Isuzu Gemini. So Buick just started buying units from them instead. However, to denote that the car was the same but different (read: more cheaply built) they cobbled up the name Opel by Isuzu. After a year, someone must've realized that name was ass and demanded it be changed - presumably forgetting to specify to replace it with a non-ass one, since it got changed to Buick Opel.
And no one gave a shit. Because really, no one gave a shit about the car in general, reserving their attention for more established alternatives like the Toyota Corolla or the aforementioned Rabbit. So Buick devised a cunning strategy: the Buick Opel 5 Car Showdown - also known as possibly the hardest I ever laughed at automotive advertising, and pretty much the only reason I actually made this whole post.
Essentially the idea was to evaluate the Buick Opel in various showdowns against compacts people actually gave a shit about and at the end of it score them overall. Thing is, the problem with such a test is that it has to be clearly impartial for its conclusions to be worth anything. "Oh, so was it, like, just so laughably rigged?" No. Exactly the opposite. It was laughably not rigged.
Yeah.
To be fair, there is an area in which it came out on top, and the ad frames this as a result that proves it's a car worth considering just as much as every other. Really, it's hard not to be endeared by the candid honesty of this copy.
Of course, none of this makes it much less hilarious to imagine whoever worked at marketing for Volkswagen grabbing the paper and finding out General Motors had bought a three page ad to tell the world the Rabbit was better than their own car.
Easiest paycheck of their fucking life.
Okay, now that you've seen the ads about how General Motors said my car is better than theirs, you can go. Or, if "GM then renamed the car Isuzu I-Mark" sounds like riveting content to you, hop under the Read More, because hoo boy is there some weird shit.
One place where our poor little car fared better was Australia, where it was sold as the Holden Gemini, since Holden, as I hinted at previously, was the Australian arm of General motors, just like Vauxhall is the British arm of it. Vauxhall has for almost all its life just been a badge they slapped on Opels, and Holden has been that to varying extents, but due to the Australian obsession with a type of car that just doesn't sell elsewhere they've always had some bespoke stuff going for them. The tables turned this time, it would seem, since the Holden Gemini was just a rebadge (albeit of the Isuzu model) and the Vauxhall Chevette was a different model, with a nick of unique styling about it in the form of a different front...
...perhaps more reminiscent of the Chevrolet Chevette sold in North America.
Wait, why's the name in green? Was General Motors selling Americans the same car twice? Well, not quite.
Though built upon the Kadett's platform, this is a somewhat different car. And we could argue about whether it's fair of Wikipedia to cite that under a different name the Kadett was known by. We could, if this was what it was included over. But it wasn't. Because the Brazilian Chevrolet Chevette was the same car. In the first four pictures of the original post you can faintly make out a Chevette badge next to the right headlight. Here's a picture of its restyling and HOLD ON A SECOND
Yeah, these cars were a big cauldron of mess. For another example, since Holden wanted to sell wagons and panel vans, which Isuzu didn't make, those were derived from, respectively, the Opel Kadett wagon and the Vauxhall Chevette panel van, onto which Gemini fronts were grafted.
And that's not even all the places these were made and sold in! South Korean manufacturer Saehan struck a deal with GM to sell these as Seahan Geminis (and exporting them as Saehan Birds), and when they updated it the name changed to Saehan Maepsy, which when Saehan got bought by bigger South Korean manufacturer Daewoo became Daewoo Maepsy, which later got updated again into the Daewoo Maepsy-na (new)...
and GM Argentina made and sold the car as the Opel K-180.
And then in 1992 it got even weirder, when Brazil made a slight update aimed at the Argentinian market and called it GMC Chevette.
You know. GMC. The truck/SUV/van/bus brand that, in its 112 years of existence, has never been stamped on a car before or since the 3 year run of this thing. Imagine finding out that, for three years in some relatively random country, Ferrari sold a pickup. It's starting to feel like someone warned automotive manufacturing the world over of approaching alien invaders that could only be warded off by enough names for the Opel Kadett.
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia page foregoes mention of the heroic efforts of Uruguayan operation Grumett - Yah! Here's an estate called Grumett 250M Rural! Yah! Here's an update of it called Grumett Gazelle Estate! a coupe called Grumett Coupe! Yah! Here's an update of it called Grumett Sport Coupe! Yah! We export these as Grumett Condors! Yah! Take that, extraterrestrial plurikadettonomophobes!
This mess of different manufacturers involved meant that all those different names, once the manufacturers worked on updating and replacing the model, ended up on completely different cars!
Here's a 1980 Opel Kadett/Vauxhall Astra...
...here's a 1983 Chevrolet Chevette...
...here's a 1984 Daewoo Maepsy-Na...
...here's a 1984 Opel Kadett...
...here's a 1985 Isuzu/Holden Gemini...
...here's a 1990 Isuzu Gemini...
...and here's a 1992 GMC Chevette.
You somehow get the vibe that Argentina wasn't doing quite as well as Japan.
So, this was the story of a world car and the ways various parts of the world interpreted it. And if you thought it was excruciating to read, try writing the damn thing. Not just in terms of the sheer work of getting any sort of narrative flow going, it was a mess to research - the info could get unclear or even contradicting, "it's more complicated than that" was a common refrain, and there seemed to be a near endless supply of tidbits that- wait, what's that? It's too big for a bird, too fast for a plane... oh no... it's a stereotypically-shaped flying saucer!!!
*the unrealistically humanoid aliens dive towards the helpless crowd around me, but as my eyes light up with the fierce courage of the chosen one, I rush towards the oncoming ship against the wave of people I urge to stand back, and when it seems close enough, I climb atop a conveniently placed statue of a riderless horse and fill my lungs at peak capacity*
IN MALAYSIA IT WAS CALLED OPEL CHEVETTE!
*the ship engulfs in flame, loses control and crumbles gracelessly onto the street and surrounding buildings, causing four debilitating injuries and 37 first degree burns*
Chevy Chevette Coupe
#oh no the tags show up under the post even if you don't click the read more they're gonna spoil the post#quick if you think you stand a chance of giving a shit and haven't opened the read more do it right now before you read these next tags#chevrolet chevette#opel kadett#amc pacer#volkswagen golf#volkswagen rabbit#isuzu bellet gemini#isuzu gemini#opel by isuzu#buick opel#toyota corolla#isuzu i-mark#holden gemini#vauxhall chevette#saehan gemini#saehan bird#saehan maepsy#daewoo maepsy#daewoo maepsy-na#opel k-180#gmc chevette#grumett 250m rural#grumett coupe#grumett sport coupe#grumett condor#vauxhall astra#opel chevette#i am very glad they increased the max number of tags on a tumblr post to 30#because that's exactly how many these are
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1988 Isuzu Gemini Hatchback
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www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935
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街の遊撃手、描いてみた。
ISUZUのGEMINIのプラモを参考に描きました★
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次は傾かせたいです。
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Isuzu VehiCROSS at WCEC's Season Opener (2024) in West Bend, WI.
#wcec#stance#stanced#isuzu#vehicross#vx#tiejingang#trooper#117#bellett#bellett 1600 gt#pup#d-max#mu-x#axiom#oasis#vertex#hombre#panther#amigo#rodeo#super cruiser#cubic#aska#journey-k#plaza#gemini#faster#fargo#florian
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Isuzu I-Mark Turbo RS
This is the Isuzu I-Mark Turbo RS, it’s a little-remembered hot hatch from the golden age of turbo that was designed by Italian great Giorgetto Giugiaro, it had suspension tuned by Lotus, and it was built by Isuzu in Japan.he Isuzu I-Mark Turbo RS was the top of the line model in the second generation Isuzu Gemini model family, a model family that had been initially designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. After Giugiaro had finalized the styling it was sent to GM for approval, and this is where things began to go awry. GM made a few relatively minor changes to the design but no one at Isuzu or GM ran the changes by Giugiaro, when he learned what had happened he refused to have his name associated with the car and cut all ties with Isuzu. He wouldn’t publicly admit to having designed the car until a decade after it went out of production. As a result, some have called it “the forgotten Giugiaro.” This hiccup aside, the I-Mark Turbo RS was a remarkable performer by the standards of the time, most of the original Giugiaro styling remained, and Lotus had been hired to fine-tune the suspension. This all resulted in a car with excellent performance, sharp handling, popular styling, and good fuel economy to boot.The car shared the same basic steel unibody as the standard I-Mark, the suspension had been completely reworked by Lotus with new springs, thicker sway bars, and tuned shock absorbers. Period ads for the car claimed it could achieve .79g on a skid pad, just like a Porsche 944.In the inline-four cylinder engine has a displacement of 1.5 liters, it has double overhead cams, four valves per cylinder, and electronic fuel injection. In standard trim it produced 125 bhp at 7,800 rpm and it could do the 0-62 mph dash in 8.1 seconds – not a bad time for a hot hatch in the 1980s.
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“I’m just having a bad day,” he said to the young boy who heard the crack of on the verge of tears in his voice.
“Okay, I’ll shut up,” replied the young boy who stepped back and watched the older man open the office door.
Maybe the young boy finally got it this time around. He saw the older man sit down and stare at the computer screen and growl at the inanimate object.
The older man was sitting in the high back chair, typing, counting, scribbling and clicking blindly as the young boy was sitting next to him and staring at his phone scrolling through some stupid app. The older man was also thinking, “Does this guy have a fucking clue? I’M HAVING A HORRIBLE DAY,” the old man was saying to himself as he was doing his best to ignore the boy who was still scrolling through his phone and said something about (not really sure) that he just wanted to have a conversation. Ugh.
The young boy probably had absolutely no idea what he was witnessing just a couple of feet away from him. Old man is in the middle of a manic phase. The constant spinning of the overthinking dodecahedron is nearly a blur, but the old man just kept working and making sure that the end of day was being completed.
“What had happened was a person,” said the disconnected voice of Brooklynite/New Yorican Rosie Perez who was recounting her experience of driving an Isuzu Trooper. The old man knew that what happened was a person came into his life. He told the person that he had feelings for him and he also told the other man that he was risking his friendship by telling him that he had feelings.
For more than twenty years the old man hid his own feelings. During these years, the old man had exiled himself after his last encounter with another man. The other man told him that he was having feelings for him.
“Dude. I’m not here for this. I’m here for the sex as I’ve just gotten out of a bad relationship,” the old man told him. The other man just sat there mouth agape and a moment later the old man bent over to kiss him goodbye. He placed both hands on either side of his face, kissed him full on and said, “I’d invite you but I’m afraid you’d have accepted.” He straightened up and walked out.
The world kept spinning on its axis as for the old man it stopped with a jerk and he got out.
The young boy knew nothing of the old man’s mental health issues.
The plethora of failed attempts to find a connection between himself and another person was jousting in the middle of a perfect storm.
From having his dream snatched away and then summarily squashed like a bug as the thirteen year old boy was trying to parse the fact that he had been raped only a month earlier as he was thrown into the cesspool of 1974’s Times Square. Porn theaters everywhere.
The old man is a survivor. He was on track to be a great ballet dancer and then became a homeless junkie prostitute who was a thief and a shitkicker who wanted to be infamous and get to the point in his life where he understood fully that he had everything you wanted or needed but he didn’t have an iota of talent. Hack.
The old man had been writing for years and still couldn’t figure out if was a dangling participle or just a dangling obscene pickle.
Years of addiction have taken their toll on the old man who just kept marching along. Yesterday, the manic state is in full swing. Yet he still goes to work and gets it done meanwhile holding back tears. Today is a different story. Yet the feeble foolish old man continues to scribble.
The young boy is oblivious. He like the old man’s husband, a Gemini, who is charming and delightful and comes across as an irritant with, “Enough about me. Let’s talk about you. What do you think about me?”
The old man is a secretive person who knows how to control himself and as a Scorpion, he can only go thermonuclear and will never stop loving you as he decides to leave you bleeding or nurse you back to health.
Then the Sagittarius enters the picture. This is where it all begins to happen and he’s in a different universe now. The Scorpion are compatible with the Gemini and the Sagittarius. The old man knows that they are not the ones. He’s an empath and he can feel their energy. With his hands he knows that has to keep his distance from them. Yet he lets his guard down and makes a judgment in error.
The old man tugs on the hem of his untucked shirt, taking a deep breath and puts on his blinders as did Sisyphus.
On two separate blogs elsewhere on the interwebs, we are going to see how mental health issues are right there in black and white. It’s a roller coaster of emotions. We can see that the old man knows and understands how to cope. He that he has to go home, go to sleep and wake up, get out of bed unassisted and start a new day.
The chalkboard has been wiped clean. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the perfect day for a light wrap. Something like a shrug, a chubby or a well-worn schmatta that’s ready for rag pile.
Twenty minutes later, the end of day is done. The two men exit the building. By this time, whatever happened was squashed and they were gathering up their belongings and going their separate ways.
Out in the parking lot, in corner was the old man’s sedan and the boy had his mom’s minivan. As they stood there for a moment, they bantered about for a few minutes before getting in the car and going home.
“Look here, Seven,” the old man says with smirk, “I can insult you without you knowing it.”
“Like what would you say,” the boy asks.
“Seven,” he starts with an arched eyebrow, “As a Squalmulous Laggard, one step above a guttersnipe, you deign to present yourself wearing your tatterdemalion haute couture that were tossed out of the bin lorry that was engulfed in flames, you’ll never meet the man who’s name is on the label because you haven’t heard of style though the Emperor’s new clothes would look better on you and still I’d vomit.”
“K.I.S.S.M.E., you twat,” said the disconnected voice of an L.A. based photographer. “You’re not Norman Mailer. For Christ’s sake, old man. No one is going to read this and get it even if you wrote ‘Kilroy was here’ on the subway walls.”
Translation: “Seven. You’re still a child. Even though your clothes have New York, London and Paris stitched on them, they look like you got them out of a donation box at an abandoned gas station.”
Seven laughed and shrugged his shoulders as he didn’t know what the old man had said.
The feeble old man who is in his mid sixties knows that the young man, who is possibly seventeen or eighteen, is smarter than he is and would never use such flowery language since he uses Snapchat and the feeble old man barely knows how to use TikTok other than to scroll through it.
“Seven, understand this: I’m in the middle of a manic phase right now,” he said with a clenched jaw. “I’m not going to try to make you feel my pain or anything else. When I say that I’m having a bad day, say something like, ‘I’m sorry and I hope you feel better soon,’ and then you get the fuck away from me so I can wallow.”
The feeble old man flicked his wrist leaving the young man standing there in the parking lot and staring at him. The old man walked away from him. Got in his car, turned the engine over, then drove off.
An hour later, the old man was home. He had to micturate like a 20 handed equine. As he was letting go, for the umpteenth time he read the little sign next to the toilet that says, “You are worth more than you know, capable of more than you think and loved more than you can imagine.”
As he stood there, he rolled his eyes out loud and to his surprise America’s favorite appeared and said, as he always does, “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an AMEN up in here?!”
The old man scoffed. He had finished and zipped up his pants and proceeded to walk to his recliner muttering to himself, “I’ve been in therapy since I was eight years old and I’m going to sixty five, and only now have I learned to take care of myself yet extricating myself from the Karpman Triangle is a journey. A series of tollbooths and no exits, but God Dammit to HELL, I’m gonna make my own fucking exit and be happy!!”
#dear diary#no your not the only one#i wrote this for me#inside my mind#my words#ramblings#my writing#pity party#bipolar depression#can’t write#doesn’t matter#stupid post#stupid shit#who cares#i dont care#just stop#drop dead gorgeous#who are you#who gives a fuck#certainly not me
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The second-generation Elantra Avante (Project J2/RD) [24] was released on March 16, 1995, and was equipped with a 1.5-liter Alpha engine and a 138-horsepower 1.8-liter Beta engine.[25][26] Sepia and Espero fight fiercely with a sleek design with prominent waterdrop-shaped curves without a ra열혈강호 다시 보기 무료보기 TXT 만화책 (완결)diator grill, output and performance that does not lag behind Elantra, wide interior space [29] and stable driving feel [30] A monumental model that has risen to become the absolute No. 1 in the semi-mid-size market, and has kept the undisputed No. 1 in sales in the semi-mid-size class to열혈강호 다시 보기 무료보기 TXT 만화책 (완결) this day. Here, with a localization rate of 99.9%, it is the second fully localized model following the Accent, and is considered the best masterpiece of Hyundai Motor Company. Hyundai Motor Company made it with great care as a completely independently developed model with the Accent, and thanks to this, it received the best evaluation among all Avantes.[31][32] This video is a video showing a stunt with the Avante by the Namyang Research Institute team in 1996, and the driving skills of the development team and the fantastic d열혈강호 다시 보기 무료보기 TXT 만화책 (완결)riving of the Avante are perfect. The group acrobatic driving and drifting reminds me of the 2nd generation Isuzu Gemini CM.[33][34] As shown in this video, you can see that the durability and solid driving performance of the old Avante is not an exaggeration. As soon as it was released, it sold 3,669 units from the first day, causing a sensation, and enjoyed great popularity enough to exceed 10,000 units for the first time with a contract number of 11,600 units. In December 1995 alone, 25,232 units were sold, and in 1996, it recorded an astonishing sales volume of 192,109 units, the number 1 record in annu열혈강호 다시 보기 무료보기 TXT 만화책 (완결)al sales of a single domestic semi-mid-sized single car that has not been broken until now. As it is, it has become a byword for the semi-medium class.[37] This popularity continued not only in Korea but also abroad. In 1995, at the Moscow Motor Show, it won the grand prize by beating Japanese cars and other imported cars that are famous 열혈강호 다시 보기 무료보기 TXT 만화책 (완결)for their strong fan base and basic skills. In October of the same year, it was selected as the best car selected by Auto Moto und Sport, a German automobile magazine, and received favorable reviews from all over the world. The following year, in 1997, when Nubira appeared as a strong competitor, it slowed down a bit, but as the situation and image of Daewoo Motors deteriorated, it regained its place. At the time, it was the first in its class to be equipped with dual airbags (optional),[38] and for the first time, a 2DIN CD player with an ANTI-THEFT system[39] option was also applied to high-end specifications.[40]
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In the early days of its appearance, the eyeball-shaped brake light was also a significant issue. The curved design emphasizes femininity, and at the same time, the middle of the brake light has a structure that does not light up, because there is a reflector in its place. When viewed from a distance, it looks like a raised eyeball, so it was evaluated as a cat's eye color.
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Junkyard Gem: 1994 Isuzu Rodeo
After a decade in which Isuzu-built Chevrolet LUV pickups, Isuzu-engined Chevrolet Chevettes and Isuzu Geminis with confusing “Opel by Isuzu” or “Buick/Opel Isuzu” badges, Isuzu finally began selling Americans its vehicles with Isuzu badging in the early 1980s. There were Isuzu cars, sure, but the P’up pickup and (starting in 1984) the Trooper SUV showed that Isuzu was likely to rake in the most…
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Holden Gemini TE saloon & TF Coupé, 1982. The General Motors T-car was marketed in Australia as the Holden Gemini, derived from the Japanese Isuzu Gemini, from 1975. They were built in Australia, using a high proportion of locally-made components. These are face-lifted versions of the saloon and coupé that were never adopted. Gemini production ended in Australia in 1984
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Isuzu Gemini Sedan EJ
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1987 Isuzu Gemini Irmscher Turbo
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