When was your first...?

[Mark B]

2001 Presidents Casino, Biloxi MS. Casino since destroied from hurricane Kartina.
It was a 2001 Proton. The yellow Proton stood out from the hundreds of cars in the parking lot. I went over and took a look and said one day.
With a price tag of around $ 32,000 at the time, I knew I had to wait.
Finally in 2006 I got my VX.

[nfpgasmask]

While I am not 100% sure, I think the first live VX I saw was Gill's Ebony in Chicago. I then looked online and saw "Daver's" black VX and from that point on, always loved em.

Bart

[tom4bren]

Bart,

Why did Daver's make you fall in love and not Gill's?

Waitta minit ... I don't wanna know.

[kodiak]

Yeah, the protons do all the marketing.

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

[nfpgasmask]

Bart,

Why did Daver's make you fall in love and not Gill's?

Waitta minit ... I don't wanna know.

I'm just saying, it was Gill's VX that initially turned my head and made me go online to find out more, and that's when I saw Daver's VX with those sweet rims and found out more about these trucks. Before I bought my Chambers (which I think are the coolest truck rims ever) I tried to find those rims that Daver had on but failed.

Bart

[nocturnalVX]

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

Yeah, the protons do all the marketing.

My first sighting was at the 2001 auto show. I needed something more practical than my Fiero & motorcycles, so I went to there with a work buddy (and a $25,000 price limit) to shop for something new. I had a friend working at Volo's antique car display, and stopped by to say hello. We were talking about what I was looking for in a new vehicle (AWD, performance, looks, etc.) and she told me to check out the VehiCROSS. I had never even heard of it before, but when I saw that shiny Proton VX roped off from the teeming masses & up high on its pedestal... I had to check it out. Nothing else came close, and (with the sale of my Fiero balancing out the added cost) I figured I had to get one. The local dealers didn't have many (or any), but I test drove an Ironman and was hooked. I told the sales guy that if he could get me an Ebony with the black & grey interior like the Proton we'd have a deal! I got my own '01 VX in July, and have spent way more than $25,000 on it.

While I am not 100% sure, I think the first live VX I saw was Gill's Ebony in Chicago. I then looked online and saw "Daver's" black VX and from that point on, always loved em.
Bart

Bart,

Why did Daver's make you fall in love and not Gill's?

Waitta minit ... I don't wanna know.

I'm glad I had a role in getting someone else addicted! We have a great crew here.

[VXGirlie01]

we already have 4 cars and a motorcycle so i wasn't even LOOKING at getting another vehicle. BUT....when we drove by a dealership and saw our little black beauty sitting there, that was it! love at first sight! i had to have him! we bought him that night. to this day, i never saw a VX before or after our purchase. can't wait to meet some more!

kind of ashamed of myself....we each have our own porsche, and our own SUV. I guess we don't share very well with each other. :lookp: wait! we share the crotch rocket!

[tom4bren]

"wait! we share the crotch rocket!"

I have NO response to that!!!

[VXGirlie01]

^^oh!! hahahahaha!!! that DID sound a bit funny didn't it!

[crager34]

I remember the commercials that came out showing the VX riding along with a Jet car and the wallet on top. That was my first intro, then over the years I would see them around Denver. Finally the timing was good and so was the money, so I kept an eye out, all the while seeing a Proton parked along Alameda near Broadway behind a house.

I liked the Kaiser the best, so I found one in Kansas City, bought it over the phone and USPS, then flew out and picked it up. Eventually that one was wrecked and while in Ohio, I found another Rhode Island from a guy on this site that bought a new Mustang when they came out (boring).

[vt_maverick]

Sighting of the Vx? I am sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing. Love at first sight!!

I was living in Blacksburg, Va. year- 1999 ... Mind you I was a college student who could barely afford the ramen noodles needed to sustain me...

Funny thing, I was there at the same time (graduated 2001). I don't remember much from that year that didn't involve football.

I didn't actually see a VX in person until 2004/5 when I saw one on a used car lot in Fredericksburg, VA - but I instantly recognized it from a TV commerical I had seen 5 years earlier (I'm sure the Isuzu marketing department would be proud). I stopped by, took it out for a test drive, and was hooked. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to buy one at the time, but this spring I finally had the opportunity to pick up my Foxfire VX. (The fact that I went to a college with maroon as a school color had everything to do with picking the Foxfire).

An interesting side note: the VX on the car lot was also a Foxfire, which means that though only 210 were made, I actually saw it before I ever saw a silver one.

[tom4bren]

Mav - I think I test drove that same VX (I was holding out for a Proton tho).

[LittleBeast]

I saw a Silver VX from behind on 610N here in Houston in 1999 and saw the massive ISUZU on the back and I had to learn more about this sweet vehicle, then I remembered there being an Isuzu dealership out on 290W which was the #1 way I travel out of town because of my family in Waco and then later a girlfriend I was dating at Texas A&M. So almost everytime I drove that way I would either exit and stop and look at the 3 or so they had on the lot or take the exit and drive by slow, or if I didn't have time I would just stare as I passed by on the highway. I was a college athlete at the time and was on a fixed stipend from the University and could not make that much money during the summers, so the VX was out of my price range at the time, so I knew I would just have to wait, but every time I saw one on the roads I would stop and stare and be completely jealous, but in Dec 2004 when I was debating buying my dad's '67 Mustang Conv from him that we restored as a 2nd car, my daily driver was totaled while it was parked in front of a house I was teaching a youth bible study in, so I was forced to buy my first car after college and it had to be a VX! So I found one online in Chicago that was an Ebony (by far my favorite VX color) with the 285/60-18 Terra Grapplers already on it, and I knew I had found my next car, I got a loan from State Farm, got a one way plane ticket and picked up my dream vehicle and drove it home listening to the PV1 and loving it the whole way.

[VehiGAZ]

I'm starting to notice a trend. Most 'first experiences' were with a Proton.

Once you see yellow, you'll never mellow!

(Look, I know they can't all be winners, but I'm trying...)

PS - GREAT thread idea!

[So-CalVX]

i'm (well i used to be) all about cars... from like 8 years old... so i saw about the concept and followed it... when they hit the states i went to the local Isuzu dealership with my mom and saw my first LIVE VX (cant seem to post the pic from my album but u can see me huggin one haha.. page three first pic row two ) then i followed all info i could thinkin i'd never own one.... bought the hotwheels... lost a couple (had each color atleast twice) moved to WV... never saw one... moved back to So-Cal got my job at Honda... worked for maybe three months and a PROTON was traded in for a CRV... as soon as i could touch it i took it for a spin.... tested EVERYTHING and blocked it behind like 15 cars until i could tell the used car manager it was mine..... one $13,000 check from grandma later i had her pink slip
payin her back slowely but surely.... thanks G-ma!!!... love you!!!