Used Car of the Day: 1994 Isuzu Trooper

by Tim Healey

Published: September 6th, 2024

Today we bring you an off-road-ready, oil-burning 1994 Isuzu Trooper.

This one has a 3.1-liter turbodiesel engine, five-speed manual transmission, and new-ish tires. The seller says the 4WD, A/C, and heat work well.

Apparently, it runs and drives just fine, too, despite blowing some smoke briefly after a cold start.

On the other hand, neither the speedometer nor tachometer work -- they need to be connected.

Seems like a simple fix, at least.

If this sort of thing interests you, perhaps you can buy this Kansas-based rig and connect the speedo and tach.

The asking price is $9,000. Click here for more.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Sobhuza Trooper on Sep 06, 2024
I took a Trooper to southern Africa in 1991, and it proved to be the best $12,000 I could have spent. It had the 2.6L 4ZE1 engine and maintenance was within the repair wheelhouse of many African mechanics.

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- 28-Cars-Later on Sep 06, 2024
  I've heard the continent is dominated by Toyotas of all years/models not only because of reliability but because you can find mechanics/get parts for them in most countries.
  
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MRF 95 T-Bird on Sep 07, 2024
We only got the Diesel first generation version Isuzu Trooper here in the states until 1986. After that they were equipped with the 2.6-4 and the GM 2.8 V6. These second generation ones were more upmarket, above the Rodeo and had the 3.5 V6 standard. This one looks like it's from the Caribbean or South America.

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