Isuzu leaves the U.S. market... who cares
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Tags: 2, XM
Isuzu has officially decided it is abandoning the North American market, and discontinuing sales of its i-Series pickup and Ascender SUV.
Isuzu has an exclusive installation deal with XM Satellite Radio. The status of their partnership is unknown, but it's a pretty good assumption that it's a done deal.
Not that it mattered much anyway.
While Isuzu's sales topped out to 100,000 units in 1999, led largely by the popular Isuzu Trooper, sales have plummeted to dismal levels since. In 2007, the automaker sold a mere 7,906 units, and that's down from 15,751 units in 2006.
And with sales numbers like that, you surely can't blame them for bailing out.
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I see a lot of the Colorado's, but rarely see an Isuzu, so It doesn't appear that they were selling that well any way.
Posted by: LAPTOP GAMER | January 30, 2008 5:39 PM
Wonder how much stock these morons will have to print to get out of this lame deal. Panero should be roasted on a stake. I will be glad when Mel gets control of this loser.
Posted by: EX_XMER | January 30, 2008 5:53 PM
I am curious as to how much XM is at fault on this. My guess is none. I believe the deal came in because of GM's interest. Not only that but it was probably cheaper to make those vehicles with XM rather than not since they come off the same assembly line. My ordered my SIerra pick-up without XM and OnStar got a $200.00 credit for each. The truck still came in with those to options.
I think we will all miss Joe :)
Posted by: another thought | January 30, 2008 10:06 PM
I guess it shouldn't be a big loss since they were only selling rebadged GMs.
Posted by: Tim | January 31, 2008 9:30 AM
If they had a deal with Sirius, you'd be decrying this as the worst thing ever. God forbid people don't have the chance to listen to Howard all the time. Thanks for all your objectivity.
Posted by: Fair and Balanced | February 1, 2008 5:50 PM