Today’s Mid Week Match-Up comes as a request from Bri, who writes: Hello! Christmas is coming up and I would like to purchase a 1988 isuzu impulse for my dad. When he was a kid he had to give up this car to get money for his family, he cried. I would like to know where […]
This next car comes from Matt C who writes: OK, it’s a non running car and not the easiest thing to get parts for… but it’s a very cool ’80s Italdesign styling exercise, and you’ll have the only one on the road. If you get it on the road, that is. It is rear wheel drive […]
The Isuzu Impluse was such an unlikely combination of Italian styling (Giorgetto Giugiaro), Japanese durability, & British handling (Lotus baby!) put into a turbocharged rear-drive hatchback that it almost caused a singularity in the space-time-continuum, ending life in the galaxy as we know it. Thankfully that didn’t happen, but it is no small coincidence that […]
Like the titular character in the unreasonably light-hearted musical about the deplorable conditions of the child support system, this Impulse has had a short yet troubled life. Most garage finds need some amount of work before being roadworthy again: fresh rubber, seals, and other items deteriorated from years of neglect. This red headed orphan has […]
Your power:weight and horsepower:dollar ratios are now obsolete. Price:mileage is the in-vogue automotive benchmark. Any one of the 300k-mile Jetta TDIs littering Craigslist would essentially cost you $0.66 per mile it’s covered, while new cars would charge very dearly for their shrink-wrapped odometers (A shrink-wrapped odometer is a dealer-installed option and will cost you $495). […]
For the final segment of our three part series, Unicorn hUnters: Ask, Find, Post, we’ve got a selection of classy DT appropriate Isuzu Impulses, a few of the later ’91 RS AWD models and some of the earlier “Handling By Lotus” turbo RWD versions. This has been a successful first experience with the Unicorn hUnters […]
A chill fills the air and all in the room are silent as the magic 8-ball has spoken. For the premier installment of Unicorn hUnters: Ask,Find,Post the target vehicular unicorn is….the Giugiaro designed Isuzu Impulse, known by its worldwide name as the Piazza, (as requested by DT regular Andrew Liss.) The specific request is for […]
The first generation Isuzu Impulse was one of the last of the classic Japanese rear-drive sports compacts and it featured a 5-spd manual transmission, turbocharged engines and a handling package designed by Lotus. Of course, this was when the iconic Lotus Engineering company was whoring out its name on everything short of a Twinkie box, […]