Friends,
Listening to the Bluegrass station on Sirius on my way down the mountain this morning (“won’t have no more pain, ain’t gonna cry, when I go to bed this evenin’ just gonna curl up and die…” **sniff!** Tragic.) I had plenty of time to consider the car holding up the line. (Speaking of lines, did you know that Bluegrass music is almost completely obsessed with trains? Why not mules? Or perhaps corn liquor? The mind reels.)
The car holding up the line wasn’t a car at all. It was a Volkswagen Eurovan.
What ever happened to those things? I understood that they were okay drivers, if underpowered. The genius of communal speculation that is Wikipedia reports that they stopped selling in the states way back in 2003. This brings me to the saddest news of the week…
Isuzu has announced that they’re going to stop selling passenger vehicles in the United States. Their end date is a year from now but the worst part of all is you don’t even care.
How soon you forget about the mighty Isuzu Impulse. The diesel I-Mark. The fun and sporty Stylus!
But most important of all were the Isuzu P’up/Chevrolet LUV twins. Just marvel at the flowing design… I’ll wait.
What may be the saddest part of this story, besides the crushing economic loss to the dealers and all the people who support them, would be the L.A. Times story itself. Clearly it would be difficult to provide analysis of the company’s failure so instead they interviewed David Leisure, the man who played Joe Isuzu on the teevee.
Yep. Journalism is dead. I think I’m gonna write a song about it.
Your pal,
bob