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Junkyard Gem: 2000 Honda Passport 4WD

American clothes Honda’s motobike The Automobile Company must have spent most of the 1990s in frustration as its rivals made a lot of money selling increasingly profitable SUVs, even as car buyers in America is no longer interested in sedans and hatchbacks. Oh, sure, based on Civic CR-V appeared here for the 1997 model year and sold well, but the lack of a larger SUV makes Honda more of a headache each year. with Acura MDX and Honda pilot wasn’t ready for showrooms until the 2001 and 2002 model years, respectively, several stops had to be figured out. ISUZU Step up and make a deal with Honda: ride a horse will receive a Honda badge and become a passportwhile Soldier will appear in Acura exhibition room with the SLX badge (for 1994 and 1995 models, respectively). This is one of them passportwas found in a self-service dump in the Denver area.

Things got even weirder in the Isuzu/Honda world at the turn of this century, with Honda Odyssey get the Isuzu badge and be sold as Oasis. Fast-forward to 2009, and the only Isuzu-branded cars available here are rebranded Chevrolets: I-Series pickup truck (Chevy Colorado) and person going up (Chevy Trailblazer).

The Passport name has some interesting American Honda history, stretching back to the first Honda car sold here (and The best-selling motor vehicle in human history): super motorbike. The American Honda Motor Company can’t use the Super Cub name on our shores, because the Piper Plane has been sold a small plane called the Super Cub since 1949, so the motorcycle is called Honda 50 here. Finally, this bike has a 70cc engine and becomes Passport Honda C70sales continued through the mid-1980s. That means Passport sitting in your local Honda dealer now got their name from a single cylinder motorcycle.

common engine also has Passport connection; when GM create brand name geo sell Isuzu changed her name, suzuki carand Toyota in the United States, it created a mark called Passport sell Daewoo LeMans like Optimal in Canada (all other vehicles sold by Passport dealers is Isuzus).

So Honda needs to supply SUVs in the US authorized dealer led to an agreement with GM-affiliated Isuzu to sell these trucks with model names affiliated with both companies. So much history in the scrap yard!

Like Toyota Corollas geo-badged (most) have Delco radio, Passport has Honda radio too. In fact, this radio may be made by Mitsubishi or Fujitsu TEN, but it has the Honda label.

The first generation passport (1994-1997) could be purchased with an inline 4-cylinder or a V6 under the hood, but the 1998-2002 models all came with a 3.2-liter SOHC V6. this, capacity 205 horsepower.

The cheapest Passport 2000s have two-wheel drive and a five-speed manual transmission, but this one is a four-wheel drive option with a four-speed automatic.

The interior is worn out but not quite in the trash.

Digital gauge cluster means I can’t read the odometer without it activate the truck’s ECUbut we can assume the final mileage is respectable.

The MDX appeared the year after this truck went on sale, and Pilot the following year. Sales of the Isuzu-built Passport surpassed those of those trucks in 2002, but have since stopped.

This is the first time Rainshine Little Tree I found in a scrap car. I don’t think this scent will overwhelm Black tape and New car scent from their position at the top of the Small Tree hierarchy, but it can achieve more success on the pond Wunder-Baums or Arbres Magiques.

Don’t let anything stand in your way.

The version with the Isuzu badge just shows how loser driving a car (especially Ford Country Squires, tempoand Pintos), that’s why Isuzu only sells trucks (the last one was branded Isuzu new car sold in the United States as Impulse and Stylus in 1993).



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