Isuzu cars in GT4...

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How the hell do you get one? I am tring to finish the game 100%, but I need to race the Isuzu manufacturers cup to do so. However since you cannot buy or win an Isuzu, where the hell do you get one?! I have tried in the 2nd hand cars without luck. The prize car list doesn't list one on it so I have no idea what to do now. :grumpy:

Anyone any ideas?

Cheers.
 
Gudster
Thanks for the replys folks. :)

Anywho I am on day 968, I guess I'll just have to keep checking the used car lot until I can get one. 👎
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If you don't already know you get it on day 463 right. Another 463 days later it will appear again, and then another and so on. It's a while to wait for you though.
 
G.T
If you don't already know you get it on day 463 right. Another 463 days later it will appear again, and then another and so on. It's a while to wait for you though.
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Yeah I knew there was like a cycle, but I didn't know how many days it took etc.

Anywho just managed to get one, done the races but I'm only at 99.6%!! :grumpy:

Bah!
 
Gudster
Yeah I knew there was like a cycle, but I didn't know how many days it took etc.

Anywho just managed to get one, done the races but I'm only at 99.6%!! :grumpy:

Bah!
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Ignore that information.

The Used Car lots cycle on a 700 day rotation, switching every 7 days. A car which is present on day 463 will not necessarily re-appear 463 days later (day 926), but it WILL re-appear 700 days later (day 1163).

There are three Isuzus, all of which appear in the Used Car 80's (or Historic) list - the Piazza XE, the Bellett and the 117 Coupe.
 
The Piazza(known as the first generation Impulse to most Americans) is in there quite often.

..and whatever happened to all of them in real life? I see the early 90s 2nd gen Impulses occasionally,but never the 1st gen/Piazza,which I thought was kinda cool looking..? Rusted away I take it,or just never bothered to fix and junked? That design was going to be the 2nd gen.VW Scirocco...I wish it was because I think it looks even better.
 
If only the Isuzu Vehicross was in to kick Land Rover into next week.
 
I see the 2nd gens occationally as Asunas or Geos, but I'd never seen or heard of the Piazza before GT4.

The Piazza is one of the most common cars in the 80s lot, and takes out the competition farly easily with just an oil change, if you're into that sort of thing.
 
Never heard of the Isuzu Piazza?

*gasps*

Close relative of the Mitsubishi Starion Turbo. Many parts are in fact interchangeable. An acquaintance of mine was secretary of the Isuzu Piazza Turbo Owners' Club (UK), before his lovingly restored example was stolen and torched.
 
Famine
Never heard of the Isuzu Piazza?

*gasps*

Close relative of the Mitsubishi Starion Turbo. Many parts are in fact interchangeable. An acquaintance of mine was secretary of the Isuzu Piazza Turbo Owners' Club (UK), before his lovingly restored example was stolen and torched.
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Atleast they torched it. My friends '72 Cadillac Eldorado convertable was stolen and rolled off a bridge, and although it looked repairable, the insurance agency wouldn't fix it, or sell it back to him. Later that year we saw it at the scrape metal yard, crushed, with about 2 more cars on top of it. I thought he was gonna cry when he saw it and realized it was his. It was nothing but a tease to the poor guy when he heard it had been found, and not torched.
 
Considering he'd built it up from an empty shell, using a second Piazza Turbo as a donor parts car, and spent a decade bringing it up to modern interior standards (including full cream leather trim), polishing it every other minute, you might see how it'd be of little consolation that it all burned rather than crumpled. He'd spent somewhere in the region of £20,000 on this car.

At least crumpled he could have salvaged many parts and rebuilt another one.
 
Famine
Never heard of the Isuzu Piazza?

*gasps*

Close relative of the Mitsubishi Starion Turbo. Many parts are in fact interchangeable. An acquaintance of mine was secretary of the Isuzu Piazza Turbo Owners' Club (UK), before his lovingly restored example was stolen and torched.
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Well, I don't think they sell Isuzus in Canada (if they do, they're really bad at it). We only got Mitsubishis a few years ago as well, so I hadn't heard of Starion/Conquests either before another MkII Supra owner I know brought one up from California.
Sucks about your friend's car :nervous:
 
The starion is pretty much the nicer looking brother of the dodge conquest because of mistsu's and dodge's partnership deal about sending and selling cars in america. Because Mitsubishi hadnt gotten alot of footing in the american car market yet they decided to test the water by selling their car to Dodge and then having it rebadged.
 
Emohawk
Well, I don't think they sell Isuzus in Canada (if they do, they're really bad at it). We only got Mitsubishis a few years ago as well, so I hadn't heard of Starion/Conquests either before another MkII Supra owner I know brought one up from California.
Sucks about your friend's car :nervous:
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hmm, there is an isuzu around my area in toronto. However it's the only one I've ever seen. Never even heard of isuzu before that, and I thought it was probably part of some other japanese company.
 
Isuzu tried to sell Piazzas in Aust I think they sold about a dozen in 2 years. Absolutely hopeless. One of my old drinking buddies has a Bellet though and it looks very nice.
I suppose Piazzas might be a little bit better than a Lada but not all that much.
 
Famine
Close relative of the Mitsubishi Starion Turbo. Many parts are in fact interchangeable. An acquaintance of mine was secretary of the Isuzu Piazza Turbo Owners' Club (UK), before his lovingly restored example was stolen and torched.
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I had no idea, I'd never thought of it. I've always liked both of those cars. 👍
 
Famine
Ignore that information.

The Used Car lots cycle on a 700 day rotation, switching every 7 days. A car which is present on day 463 will not necessarily re-appear 463 days later (day 926), but it WILL re-appear 700 days later (day 1163).

There are three Isuzus, all of which appear in the Used Car 80's (or Historic) list - the Piazza XE, the Bellett and the 117 Coupe.
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Whoops, guess I had a brain fart. :D
 
TurboJ
Can you turbocharge the Piazza ?

That should make one pretty beast. :dopey:
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Famine
An acquaintance of mine was secretary of the Isuzu Piazza Turbo Owners' Club (UK)
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Hmmm... Don't know offhand...

For anyone whp's interested, Jon's Piazza Turbo:



(although since the car's been dead two years, the page is slightly out of date)
 
That is (was) a damn fine example of the Piazza Turbo, Famine...

Too bad some numbskull had to torch it. :( 👎
 
Not often I can query something Famine says, but I don't think there’s much shared between Isuzu and Mitsubishi. You’re more likely to find Opel/Vauxhall bits lurking underneath, as Isuzu are part of the GM empire (remember the small RWD Chevette/Kadett/Gemini T-car, sold worldwide in various guises by Vauxhall, Opel, Isuzu, Chevrolet and Buick?).

Even back in the 1970’s Mitsubishi were aligned with Mopar (and Ford already had links with Mazda).

The Piazza started life as a concept called Ace of Spades in 1979/80 (ItalDesign?), probably little more than a rebodied 117 (which was I think an older Italian design, as were many Japanese cars of the late 60’s/early 70’s).

Anyway, don’t get me started talking about older Japanese cars because I’ll be here enthusing about them all day. Unlike some, I love the fact that there’s now so many in GT4 and best of all they won’t rust away!
 

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