"McMike" (mcmike)
04/07/2017 at 21:28 • Filed to: None
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"McMike" (mcmike)
04/07/2017 at 21:28 • Filed to: None | 12
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Excuse me, what?
Just when I thought we rolled up on a 1st gen Odyssey today, I was wrong.
What I saw today was a 1st gen !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , one of less than 12,000 ever produced, and the weirdest cross-marque rebadge I had ever seen since the Honda Passport.
Turns out this is what Honda traded Isuzu for the Passport.
fhrblig
> McMike
04/07/2017 at 21:57 |
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No, the Passport at least made sense. Honda had no experience building a body on frame SUV like what was becoming popular at the time, and wanted one to add to the lineup. The Rodeo wasn’t a terrible choice. I just don’t understand what Isuzu was going to do with a minivan, let alone one that trailed the competition pretty badly. Though they did get at least one Honda product to sell in Japan.
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> fhrblig
04/07/2017 at 22:49 |
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I actually thought these things were pretty solid back when they were new. The biggest competitive problems were size and the lack of sliding doors. I remember the back seat being pretty tight compared to a Caravan yet the whole thing still being so big that the rear doors were a huge pain in thr ass to open and close. It rode and drove better than the domestic vans, though.
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fhrblig
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04/07/2017 at 23:01 |
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I guess I should say they were great vans for Jalops. They weren’t enormous, they were 4-banger only, and no sliding doors. In other words, it was the hipster of minivans.