Mauals

[uncle_asa]

The answer is technically yes, they did come with standard shift. Five were built at the factory that way to be used in the Dakar Rally Raid. If you look at the VX parts manual you will see provisions shown for manual shifters. That's the story.

I have both US and Japan EPCs and there's no manual transmission mentioned there.

I'm pretty sure the transmission was swapped by Isuzu Motorsports after cars left factory. If you look at Dakar's VXs they have totally modified from stock.

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[blacksambo]

Pages from the original VX parts catalog that indicate that there were factory provisions made for fitting manual transmission.

[uncle_asa]

Pages from the original VX parts catalog that indicate that there were factory provisions made for fitting manual transmission.

I bet they just copied pictures from Trooper catalog and they have pretty standard names for the pages for years. I think that was done to make it easier to find some parts to the dealership personal without need for additional training.

If saw RHD steering damper installed on LHD Rodeo (or vice verso) in older EPC and some other copied pictures.