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View assessment comments: The following are comments about the quality and importance of this article: (edit – history – watch – purge) This page is very biased and opinionated. January 30, 2008 - Isuzu announces complete withdrawal from the US market[2]. It will continue to provide support and parts. The decision is mainly affected by extremely low sales, and Isuzu's discontinuation of the Trailblazer/i-series exchange program. GM, for the first time in over 35 years, finds itself with the lack of an Isuzu pickup to re-badge as a GM product. As such, GM is currently attempting to design their own small pickup for the future, no longer relying on Isuzu for engines and design. Isuzu had been experiencing a slow decline since the late 1990s. In less than 10 years, Isuzu went from selling a complete line of cars, trucks, and SUVs, into being a specialized SUV-only manufacturer, and eventually only a memory. [3] They will continue to sell commercial vehicles in the U.S. [4] No sources cited on any of this imformation. Needs fixed

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This page needs to have more information on not only their commercial vehicle production, but their stance on emission standards. Isuzu is not known for making automobiles for the average consumer, they are known for their commercial vehicles. It is therefore a wonder why the entire article focusus on passenger cars. In 2005 specifically, while the article is making a point about Isuzu only selling two cars per month, and while the company is on the verge of leaving the U.S., how is Isuzu making a profit? A brief answer is given but it is downplayed by the meaningless car production.

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You have basically changed this page from a well written piece, into an Isuzu sob story. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isuzu&diff=next&oldid=189996821 75.210.196.164 (talk) 16:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Relationship with Rootes and GM

There seems to be a contradiction between the introductory text, which claims that Isuzu worked with General Motors from 1953, and the timeline, which says there was a relationship with Rootes (never part of GM) from 1953. The timeline first mentions GM in 1971. The Isuzu Gemini article further supports the presence of GM from the 1970s only, because it says the Gemini was replaced with a GM-derived model, after GM became involved – and from reading about the development of the non-GM Gemini, this replacement happened some time after 1969. – Kieran T ^{(talk | contribs)} 14:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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There are plenty of other aspects of the company which could be discussed and which are absent - corporate policies, aims, philosophy, attitude towards emissions standards. The History section could also benefit from being converted to paragraph format rather than the chronology list. LordAmeth (talk) 13:41, 18 December 2007 (UTC)