Talk:Isuzu Trooper
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Isuzu's lawsuit against Consumers Union was LOST. Numerous news outlets have reported this and so has Consumers Union:
http://www.consumersunion.org/products/verdict.htm--Bryanmenard 20:58, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
The Isuzu Trooper is not a large SUV, its a mid-size. Davez621 10:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
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The isuzu Trooper is a Great SUV its really sad isuzu replaced it. -.- No Isuzu Trooper had a V8 engine offered from factory... Bryan
I concur, the Isuzu Trooper at no time and in no country was offered with a V8 from the factory... Eric
DUDE THE ISUZU ALTERRA/ASCENDER STINKS, CANT BELIEVE THEY REPLACED THE TROOPER WITH IT!
Isuzu probably intended to offer a V8 Trooper at some point. I have two reasons to believe this:
1. The 3.5 V6 in the last generation Trooper is a 75-degree V6. There is no reason to make a clean-sheet 75-degree V6, because a 60-degree V would be even firing and therefore smoother. A 90-degree V8 would be even-firing, so a 75-degree V only makes sense if the engine family was intended to accomodate a V8 at some point.
2. Isuzu held some trademarks that implied 8-cylinder power, including "AWD/V8" and "ultim8." A V8 would make sense for Isuzu's commercial trucks, but not the AWD. Logically, this powertrain would have been in the Trooper. The only other possibility would have been for a V8 in a larger SUV that slotted above Trooper.
