Spotted...cars in Moscow: Isuzu Piazza / Impulse

In a re-post from my car spotting blog, here is an Isuzu Piazza (Impulse in the US), first generation, abandoned or at least unmoved for a long time.

As I said, this is a first-generation Isuzu Piazza and a JDM version too, i.e. the very car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro who had a free rein over the design. The result of his effort was the wedge-shaped three-door hatchback called the Asso di Fiori ("Ace of Clubs") prototype and show car that was then put into production by Isuza practically unchanged.

Wikipedia says...

The Isuzu Piazza is a small, sporty 3-door liftback coupé which was manufactured by Isuzu from 1981 to 1992 in two generations. The Isuzu Piazza was marketed as the Isuzu Impulse in North America and as the Holden Piazza in Australia.
The first generation Impulse was a rear-wheel drive car.
As of 2010, the number of registered Impulses totaled only 2,300, making Impulses very rare. The car was produced in very low numbers, totaling slightly over 13,000 units.

So this seems like a rare find. On the other hand, it's not a US-spec Impulse but a JDM Piazza, steering wheel on the right, so maybe not that rare.

And here is that famous Isuzu Piazza dash and instrument cluster - what's left of it.

Pipe is obviously aftermarket and in a bad taste too.

An Isuza Piazza and a Lada Niva side by side - the Lada Niva went into production some 5 years before the Isuzu Piazza but is still produced to this day!

And now as a bonus, here are some pictures from my Gran Turismo blog of an Isuzu Piazza car with the accompanying text for good measure.

The GT6 1981 Isuzu PIAZZA XE.

Exported to the US and known there as the Isuzu  Impulse.

Presented here in Cafe Au Lait... aka "coffee with milk". Why not call it "Latte" and be done with it?

The car is also the creation of the famed Giorgetto Giugiaro's Italdesgn Studio.

 Quoting...

The elimination of external drips, substituted by an output channel in the door pillar and rear window, integral doors and rear doors only seen before in some dream cars, now they suddenly become, with the Isuzu Piazza, mass-production elements, evolutionary, copied by hundreds of the following models.

Great news even inside of the car. Near the instruments panel there are two adjustable satellites that contain the controls and they can be operated with the hands without removing the thumb from the steering.

Produced in 1981, Piazza (a.k.a. Impulse) well sold, during the first six years, more than 100.000 cars.

Unfortunately, the GT6 Isuzu Piazza is not a Premium car, so there is no peeking at the famed instrument cluster, grouped around the steering wheel column and movable with it.

So I pull one from the Internet, okay? It's from a US-version Isuzu Impulse.

At Nuerburgring, during a free run.

Spotted...cars in Moscow: Isuzu Piazza / Impulse: Here is an Isuzu Piazza (Impulse in the US), first generation, abandoned or at least unmoved for a long time. As I said, this is a fi...