cool pic of VX catching mad air

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah, I am pretty sure that is a real photo from some Japanese rally team. There were several other photos of different trucks hitting that same jump...

Bart

[Tobert]

I think Tone has some pictures like that or worse ... maybe they're on his website.

[Catch77]

I've chatted with with an ex-Isuzu rep when he spotted my VX. He mentioned that VXs were originally built for rallies, specifically the one across Africa (can't remember the name). But someone came up with the idea of making it street legal by slapping on the required parts. So for me it explains why these ride like jeeps...or rougher.

[tbigity]

at first glance it looks photoshopped. The car is too "clean" with everything else being so out of focus. Hard to catch a moving object in that sharp of a focus, but the lighting under it looks pretty spot-on and would be hard to emmulate that well in PS. My $.02

[Joe_Black]

The rally that Isuzu corporate has been involved with is the Dakar Rally, one of the most grueling long distance rallies on the planet. It used to run from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal but now starts from Lisbon, Portugal.



In 1994 Isuzu won the "Marathon" class with practically off-the-showroom-floor Trooper, which is why you'll see Dakar grill badges on some '95 Troopers. Isuzu also was actively achieving victories in other rallies around this time period:

1992 - Trooper won class victory in '92 Australlion Safari.
1993 - UCS (Mu, Amigo in US) took the prototype diesel class victory in the Paris-Dakar Rally.
1993 - Troopers took first and second place in the class of '93 Australian Safari.
1994 - Trooper won the Marathon class victory at the 1994 Paris-Dakar Rally.
1994 - Trooper finished first in its class at the Pharaoh Rally.
1994 - The Rodeo became the first SUV to win the Alcan Winter Rally.

The VehiCROSS was "rally inspired" and it was hoped, as Isuzu was not actively involved as a participating manufacturer, that private teams would campaign the VX with success.

[tbigity]

god, Isuzus rock. It is a shame that GM bought them, a company that recently filed for bankruptcy, and are going to eventually, in the not too distant future, phase out the Isuzus. Or at least, as a good GM-employee friend of mine thinks, they will phase out all original Isuzu designs. Which they kinda already have. All they have now are trailblazers and colorados with isuzu badges, iirc.

[nfpgasmask]

jeep

chevy

Mitsu

Another jeep, madder air

If you look at the URL for the above links, and want to look at more pics from this Japanese site, just change the number around for the jpg up or down 1 to see some of the other pics. I cannot find out how to browse this site normally...

Bart

[Raque Thomas]

god, Isuzus rock. It is a shame that GM bought them, a company that recently filed for bankruptcy, and are going to eventually, in the not too distant future, phase out the Isuzus. Or at least, as a good GM-employee friend of mine thinks, they will phase out all original Isuzu designs. Which they kinda already have. All they have now are trailblazers and colorados with isuzu badges, iirc.

I believe that Colorados are actually rebadged Izusu's instead of the other way around.

[nfpgasmask]

It is tough to catch fast moving objects in focus, but with a motor drive on your camera and a proper lens with the right film speed it can be done pretty easily...especially if you are a professional photographer shooting a race...although, PS does have some nice "motion blur" fx that can emmulate this exact type of thing....but like you said, way to spot-on to be fake...

at first glance it looks photoshopped. The car is too "clean" with everything else being so out of focus. Hard to catch a moving object in that sharp of a focus, but the lighting under it looks pretty spot-on and would be hard to emmulate that well in PS. My $.02

[Jolly Roger VX'er]

It is tough to catch fast moving objects in focus, but with a motor drive on your camera and a proper lens with the right film speed it can be done pretty easily...especially if you are a professional photographer shooting a race...although, PS does have some nice "motion blur" fx that can emmulate this exact type of thing....but like you said, way to spot-on to be fake...

I took my buddy to see NHRA Drag Racing at Columbus, OHio and he is into photography. He snapped alot of pictures of dragsters on their way to 300+mph in the 1/4 mile and you can read the sponsorship decals on the car along with the drivers name when it was half-way down the track (probably in excess of 200mph at that point!) I was impressed!

[Bimati]

Biju...That'll give you a pretty good idea of what your fender mirror will look like on the dragon. It also appears that it might add about 90 horsepower and decrease your overall weight by about 400 lbs.

That's just my interpretation.

[biju]

Biju...That'll give you a pretty good idea of what your fender mirror will look like on the dragon. It also appears that it might add about 90 horsepower and decrease your overall weight by about 400 lbs.

Don't hate - appreciate.

Only reason I bought the fender mirror is because I was told it would make my VX stupid fast! But the FACT that it will make my VX extremely light is just another *bonus*!! Man, what a deal...



-beeej.