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[UXB]

2001 Ebony #1084

Training Director for National Environmental Firm

Married, Wife Media Center Specialist w/school system

Two Children, Daughter 22, Son 13

Navy veteran

Boat Addict

[climbcovey]

I saw the vx while driving by a lot in evansville indiana, immediately turned around much to the dissappointment of my girlfriend (now my wife). Kept an eye on the vx for a couple of years, also to the dissappointment of my wife. Then I found out they stopped production. I immediately got online and found a dealer the closest being 3 hrs from my location. drove my toyota truck (95 sr5 4x4 exnt cab, all decked out!!!!) to champaigne, ill. traded in my beloved truck (while shedding many tears) and drove home with a smile on my face. my girlfriend was livid!!! very upset that I made such a large purchase without discussing it with her. ( this came up again later while bieng interviewed by our minister before getting married she is still upset!) shortly therafter my vx was dubbed the short bus by the guys on the fire dept.(i dont know if that is due to the driver or the mentally sick off road ability of the stock vx, but the name stuck..) now 4 years later 89,000 miles, 16months married, i had my first mishap. I struck a deer. My wife was happy to think i was going to get rid of the vx. then I found this web site!!!! now the short bus will live on!!!! nice and cozy in the garage cause I make the wife park in the driveway. the vx is still making her mad!!!! ha ah!!

[Icekold]

Hello guys and gals. I've been lurking around here for the last month or so as I narrowed my search for that perfect Vehicross. Well I finally found and bought my new baby! It's a Green 2001 0905. I fell in love with the Isuzu Vehicross at an auto show way back in 1998. I was amazed at what I saw that day and took so many pictures of me and my then two year old standing near this amazing Vehicle. (they're still around in some album) I was a young new dad back when it came out and had very little money but always promised myself that I would own one of these someday. Well today is the day.
I live in the DC area and there were a couple for sale nearby that piqued my interest (especially the silverone in Frederick) but the one I settled on was located at a dealership in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. I planned on flying up there today (sat 11th) but found out DC was in for a snow storm so I hopped on a plane a day early to beat the snow. One hour flight there and 5 hour drive back home and today got to spend a full day driving around town and a good part of the evening being AMAZED at how great this thing was handling the snow. So how cool is it that I actually get to REALLY play around in one of the key conditions this thing was built for on my first day out.

[dlvad]

Hello All-
Thanks for the best VX site/forum...Yes - Im a newbie and shopping for a vehicle at this time. I live in Los Cabos - Baja California Sur, Mexico on the Trans-Penninsular Highway between Playa Tortuga and Boca del Tule on the Sea of Cortez.

At the moment Im located in Northern California visiting family and friends.
The closet vehicle Ive located is in Southern California so Ill be traveling South in the next week or so.

That I know of there is only one VX in the Cabo San Lucas/San Jose del Cabo area (at least that Ive seen) Any members here from Baja???

regards,
DV

[whtzmbi]

OK.....so I saw my first one in Columbus, OH in '99....proton yellow...absolutely loved it!!!! I wasn't sure what it was I just saw ISUZU written on it...so I didn't know what to look for, plus I had just bought a new eagle talon...which I also loved so I didn't look any more. Then I saw another one back in Oct. '05 and went and looked at it drove 3 hours to see it. Test drove it just to find out the guy never had an oil change and it didn't have any oil on the dip stick when i took it out....bad news waiting to happen....i was disappointed and had just bought and 05 Pontiac Vibe Abyss color.....love it...then i saw (at the same dealer i bought my vibe) an iron man (debadged) being traded in for a grand am....I stopped and told them I had to have it...my dealer laughed...when I didn't laugh with him he knew I was serious...he didn't know anything about them so I filled him in with all the knowledge I had from my research on the internet. I drove that bad boy home within 2 days to sit in the driveway by the new vibe....wtf am I doing with 2 car payments??? I figure you only live once and I've wanted one of these since I saw it in '99 and now i have one.....I love it more than my Vibe !!!!

[VXFTW]

Sup All,

I've been shopping for a VX lately and stumbled across this forum. It's always nice to see an enthusiasts forum.

Anyway, I'm in the military stationed overseas atm, but will need a vehicle when I come back to the states soon. I've been bouncing around ideas from bimmers to volvos to audis since they all offer a military purchase program. I recently stumbled across the VX on eBay and remember seeing these things a few years back. I was kinda sad to find they discontinued such a great looking and apparently cult-following vehicle. Just further proof that politics suck.

So my basic criteria for my next vehicle are: 4WD and gas mileage. My previous vehicle was a 1995 Ford Bronco, which was great and fun, but a little too large for daily driving and too damn expensive to keep a full tank. At 10mpg with a 30 gallon tank, it'd cost me on average 70 bucks to fill up. Although, from what I've read, the VX only gets 13-19 mpg, it's still better than the OJ-mobile.

If anyone wants to offer advice/words of encouragement, I'd appreciate it. The only reservation I have atm, is the engine problem that seems to occur around the 60k mark. Is that a very common problem? Is it exclusive to a certain year model? Also, what are the maintenance costs like for the VX?

Thanks for the help. VX For The Win!

[HexiBase]

Pete (HexiBase) here joining from Southern Arizona. I own a heavily-modified 2001 Isuzu VehiCross demo vehicle representing Team Toxic Bass both in SPL competition and imports shows. I come onboard in hopes of acquaintance with like-minded aficionados who are actively committed to expanding on the VehiCross “shell” and providing the stagnant portion of the community with something more than the already overabundant heap of images depicting virtually stock vehicles which you could just as easily run a simple Google image search for. My fields of expertise include acoustic engineering, professional car audio, computer science, and music production.

[cableguy]

I dont have a vehi-cross yet, (I had to say i had one to register on this forum) Getting rid of the grand cherokee. I've seen pictures of the vehi-cross, and just think there so cool. I joined this forum to speak with some of the most knowlegeable vehi-cross people there is. I always do research before buying. As the day goes buy, I;m sure i'll end up asking a dumb question to someone out there so if that happens, hopefully you'll remember i'm new and as of now i know nothing about this suv except is cool as hell looking. Oh, Hello to all.

cableguy

[cableguy]

I dont have a vehi-cross yet, (I had to say i had one to register on this forum) Getting rid of the grand cherokee. I've seen pictures of the vehi-cross, and just think there so cool. I joined this forum to speak with some of the most knowlegeable vehi-cross people there is. I always do research before buying. As the days goes by, I'm sure i'll end up asking a dumb question to someone out there, so if that happens, hopefully you'll remember i'm new and as of now i know nothing about this suv except is cool as hell looking. Oh, Hello to all.

cableguy

[ZooZoo]

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[ezscreen]

I bought this new and it's got 29k miles on it because I drive it in the winter only. I installed a K&N Air cleaner and a rear view camera and monitor that hangs down from the rearview mirror (bought it from manufacturer in Grand Rapids, MI) All the usual looks that one gets with a cutting edge designed vehicle. Funny how the SUV's coming out have such similar lines. I am sick of hearing from AutoWeek and other pubs what a piece of #%$@ the VX is. I love it! I'm concerned about the brakes and the tires. Hoping to get some ideas from this site as to the right choices. Great job on the site. Keep up the good work!

[Doomster13]

Hi ......my name is Dave. 2001 Silver VX. Royal Palm Beach , FL. Had VX for 5 years now and still a fan. Site looks cool as well as useful . Looking forward to it.

[dynofan]

So glad to find this site! I saw the VX several years ago and I hope to finally pick up a 2001 this week! I currently drive a '94 Amigo, which has been a terrific ride. I'll keep it for jamming around, but I'm definitely looking forward to the VX: certainly a great design before its time!

Picked up a silver and black 2001 VX. I love it!!! (Its power also saved me from getting squished by a semi on the turnpike!) Am looking forward to trying the modifications I've read about on the site.

[WyldWeasel]

Hey all. Been lurking for a little more than a month while I shopped around for a VX, but haven't wanted to sign up until I was legit. Put a deposit down on one yesterday and with a little luck will drive it home by the end of the week. Rather curious how 40 days ago I didn't know these things existed, and now I've test driven 4 of them and plunked some cash down for one.

It's kind of a funny story: End of Febuary, I was considering buying a 2001 Trooper 4x4 at an Enterprise dealership nearby, and was checking Kelly Blue Book on it. During my fiddling around selecting models, I saw VehiCROSS at the bottom of the list and said to myself: "Huh. Never heard of that. What is it?" So I jump through KBB's hoops for a VX and wind up on that last page that shows a pic of one and I'm blown away by it.

I check the Edmunds site and they have a link to reviews with even better pix and interior shots and now I'm thinking "This is the car that will get hunny excited enough to buy a 4x4!" Since I've always wanted a 4x4 but was seduced by the 900 SAAB SPG early in my car buying career so never actually got that far. So I call the hunny up at work raving about this quirky little SUV (hunny ~hates~ SUV's) with factory supplied Recaro leather seats (hunny loves Recaro seats). By the time hunny gets home a few hours later, hunny has looked up the car on the net and is utterly in love with it, too.

Needless to say we found this site (hunny's user name here is Commando, formerly luz), and it has been enormously helpful in educating us about the quirks and qualities of this particularly strange and wonderful beast.

The rest is history.

[Meatsnack]

I joined the forum because my mother's silver '99 VX has started burning a tremendous amount of oil. Thanks for all the past threads and helpful discussion. Since I will probably buy the carcass if the motor goes belly-up, I am sure I will be found here frequently.