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When I’m crawling through a big self-service wrecking yard (as I do at least once a week) in search of
interesting discarded vehicles
, the top of my “look for” list always includes weird and obscure examples of badge engineering, the weirder and more obscure the better. So far the Nissan-made
has eluded me, but I
have
managed to shoot such junkyard badge-engineering oddities as the
(
Excel),
(
),
(
) and
(Opel
).
dire need for a
in the late 1990s led to a deal with
to sell the first-generation
as
(even as the Trooper became the
). Few bought the
, but I found one in a Denver yard a few months back.
Pure Honda throughout, down to the VTEC badges on the engine. This is the 2.3-liter F23 four, rated at 150 horsepower for 1998.
Sold new in Denver, will be crushed in Denver.
Though Americans bought many a
or
built by Isuzu during the 1980s and 1990s (not to mention the big-selling Isuzu-made Chevy LUV truck of the 1970s), the Isuzu brand never really caught on over here. By 2009,
.
The first-generation Odyssey was well-made and efficient, but it was designed for the Japanese home market and thus was too small for most American van shoppers in 1998 (most of whom were moving to SUVs around that time, anyway). You could fit a lot of people and gear in this small-footprint machine, but that was more important in crowded Japanese cities than in sprawling American suburbia.
Collectible? Not at all. But an interesting piece of
.
I can’t find any Oasis ads online, so let’s watch a JDM commercial for the first-gen Odyssey, featuring the Addams Family.
from Autoblog http://bit.ly/2IOjqUO