Vintage Commercial: Joe Isuzu / Isuzu Trooper (1988)

[sfbayareagirl]

where's the ad where he's taunting the guard at Buckingham Palace and he says "Nice Hat"… man I loved that commercial!

[boogioogigoof]

LOL!

[Manongjojo]

I remember this commercial. My favorite commercial is when he gets struck by lightning.LOL

[foxymcgraw]

The Trooper is the biggest piece of s&%t I have ever owned. Bad purchase. Damn near broke me.

[RaguelAngelofBalance]

@foxymcgraw I had one and couldn't kill it. Didn't change the oil (or add oil) for two years and some farmer wanted to buy it off me.

[kcthatsawinner]

Joe Isuzu: White American Male who is a Benedict Arnold to the U.S. car industry, a racist, and a liar. Should've joined the Obama administration as their new auto czar. Isuzu is nonexistent in the U.S., and Joe should give every DemocRAT an Isuzu. Mr. Obama, that's your homework for today. Get Joe Isuzu back, give GM and Chrysler back to Detroit, and have Joe Isuzu as your new auto czar. Joe Isuzu would make the perfect husband for Nancy Pelosi.

[Hypnotron2006]

Give them back to Detroit? You do realize that had the government not stepped in they would not even exist today? The creditors would've sold off the pieces to foreign car makers.

However, you will get your wish when the government sells all it's shares. Then what will you say? The President will have saved the Detroit mar makers and you'll find something else to complain about. The ends justifies the means right?

[artistwithouttalent]

@Hypnotron2006 Yes they would have; bad tax law by both Bush and Obama put Detroit out of reach of most consumers, and lower quality put it out of favor with those who could afford it. If they had let the free market work, GM would have been bought out by some stronger competitor. The brands they own are too ingrained in our psyche to die. Besides, with all the deals they have with other top manufacturers, there's no way that GM would have just died;

[artistwithouttalent]

@artistwithouttalent it would have hurt the other manufacturers' bottom lines too much. And here;s something else to complain about, on the subject: the federal government wasted billions bailing out Chrysler and GM; while GM payed back their loans and interest well w/i the time constraints (a move I applaud), Chrysler STILL ended up getting bought out by Fiat, which is what was going to happen without government intervention.

[artistwithouttalent]

@artistwithouttalent Here's the kicker: SOMEONE in the government realized they should stop interfering with the function of private industry (FINALLY!), and consequently sold their stocks in Chrysler, at a multi-billion dollar loss. So, just to tally it up: two massive bailouts, one company ending up under foreign ownership, and billions lost in lower stock resale values, all of which could have been avoided by letting the free market work; the brands would have maintained their existence,

[artistwithouttalent]

@artistwithouttalent and we wouldn't have been settled with all of that debt. HOW DID THIS HELP US?

Make you and every hardcore liberal that reads this a deal: we'll stop attacking democratic policy when democrats stop fucking up.

[artistwithouttalent]

@Hypnotron2006 and you do know car is spelled with a "c", correct?

[TyVulpine]

*Facepalm*

[00partyman]

Troopers are tough as nails!! Very good vehicles.

[SSMATT08]

so how many Cherokee's do you still see on the road today compared to the Trooper?

[murderkid200]

That's because they stopped making them in america, Got to Europe South America Asia or any othe continent and you'll see how many troopers there are, and no cherokees!

[badlands250]

tens of thousands. compared to only hundreds of troopers

[auaiao9]

I'd forgotten all about Joe Isuzu.

[slipknoter106]

i mean you* lol sory

[slipknoter106]

DAMN IT, why did i tape over it?

[PopeInnocentXIV]

Sorry! This was a tape I used 20 years ago to record shows when I wasn't home. I needed a tape and this was just a commercial. Of course had I known then what I know now, I would have recorded nothing but commercials; or at least kept this one instead of a commercial for Fedders air conditioners. Check out my other videos; at least those commercials still survive.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Hindsight is always 20/20, don't you think? :-)

If I had a dime for all of the golden VHS tapes I decided I didn't need anymore...well, it would be a lot of dimes but I wouldn't be rich. I'm still mad about a movie I threw away because it had the full HBO city opening...and I taped it in 1997, the year it was retired!!!!!

[antandant]

howdy chief?