spotted in the us

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:07 am

Last friday on my way home I had a Holden merge onto the freeway. If I'm not mistaken in black lettering it said "Jackaroo" on the rear quarter panel after the Holden chrome lettering. Would have liked to get a better look at it as I have seen them mentioned on this site often, but traffic was 4 lanes of stop and go ( mainly stop ) for several miles. In my mirrors at a distance it resembles our Isuzu Troopers and a bit of Internatonal.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:27 am

Holden Jack-up-a-roo have been on our roads since early 1980's built by Isuzu as trusty as our Holden Isuzu Geminis. I guess the option was there to badge one of your Isuzus with Holden Jackaroo badge and keep the stering wheel where it needs to be in the US....or it was a right hander from Oz!

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:40 am

ha ha, definately a jack up a roo... rh drive and all. An Isuzu eh, it caught my eye as being a bit different than what i've seen before. I tell ya, the way people drive in wash state there is no specific place our steer wheels should be:). I hope the good people of OZ have a better grip on driving than we do.

Willie · Post by **Willie** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:48 am

[quote="subuaroodude"]

Don't bet on it!

dibs · Post by **dibs** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:55 pm

for a minute there i thought you mite been talkin about a monaro .

i know a guy over ther bought a gto and re badged it back to monaro seats n all then got monaro number plates for it .

i got a pic of it somewere with usa backgroud and its not been cutted and pasted lol

dibs

hes from oldholdens.com

mattw · Post by **mattw** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:21 pm

And one for the wiki researchers out there, apparently one of GM's brainwaves while they owned a chunk of Subaru was to sell Jackaroos rebadged as Subies in the states to fill the gap for an SUV, which the Tribeca now fills.
Scary but true.

sublime · Post by **sublime** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:13 am

mattw wrote:And one for the wiki researchers out there, apparently one of GM's brainwaves while they owned a chunk of Subaru was to sell Jackaroos rebadged as Subies in the states to fill the gap for an SUV, which the Tribeca now fills.
Scary but true.

Not really... The Subaru Big Horn (or Trooper) had more to do with Isuzu and Subaru working together rather than GM. Remember the Subaru plant in the US started as a joint venture between Subaru and Isuzu well before GM purchased its stake in Subaru.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:27 am

Speaking of Subaru and Izuzu, ive seen a picture of an L series with Izuzu badges. It also had the 4 headlight front end

GTlegs · Post by **GTlegs** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:14 pm

Yep, the jackaroo is a rebadged Isuzu trooper.

Gen 1 liberty was sold as an Isuzu in japan (saw one with me own eyes in New Zealand)