Thursday, October 25, 2018

Isuzu Trooper/Bighorn



Badge engineering is big business and it didn’t get any bigger than Isuzu in the 1990s. Their second generation Trooper (also called an Isuzu Bighorn and an Isuzu Trooper Bighorn) was sold with eight different badges and they weren’t all General Motors brands. So, in alphabetical order, they were:

Acura SLX
Chevrolet Trooper
Isuzu Bighorn
Holden Jackaroo
Holden Monterey
Honda Horizon
Opel Monterey
Subaru Bighorn
Vauxhall Monterey

Holden also turned it into a concept car, The Jack8, a revamped roofless two-door powered by GM’s Gen III V8.