Quote Originally Posted by blacksambo View Post
Well you obviously don't understand big business, you can't change you basic premise and expect to stay in business, for too long. First, you'll be sued, second you loose tremendous credibility with everybody especially the auto motive press (there is no bar soap press so you get a little more leeway here) because you've all too conveniently changed your tune, now that things look more opportunistic. Big business just doesn't operate that way, especially General Motors or Ford. They go off course in their messging, they get sued but good and the press damns them to death, they are big easy to hit targets. VX was hand assembeled, a major selling point, you just can't eventually work your way around that fact.

But more to the general point, large vehicle manufacturers do not try new models out for sales potential in miniscule numbers and then build thousands more the next year if it attracts sales. They launch new models on a large scale and hope for the best. I don't know of any hand-assembled trial level new model experiments in the big-player car industry in the past fifty years. We're talking about the age of mass production here, especially for General Motors. The VX was production-wise inachronistic, at best, and too terribly impractical for everyday use to ever be a sales volume contender. Face it you own an experimental vehicle, that destined for a limited elite audience . It wasn't supposed to win the popularity contest. If it could have, it would have been a failure at its intended purpose and would have never got off the initial drawing board.
Very well put! This is more the way I've view this icon of Isuzu...a prototype encouraged into production to promote the brand. I have to suspect it would have been lengthed (to accomodate 4-dr or at least better rear entry) if it were intended for large-scale production. Plus, the rear tire issue and the smallish cargo space also lend themselves MUCH MORE to the concept aspect of the platform vs. true intention for production.

I bought mine simply because it was intended to be conceptual. Concept vehicles aren't something the "average" person gets to buy everyday either!!!! Obviously, it wasn't intended to be "practical". But, it's real world performance in baja/off-road events prove it isn't just another "pretty face". Trying to extrapolate a concept run into production viability just seems a stretch to consider. More importantly, I've no idea why anyone would take this discussion there.