Isuzu D-Max

The Isuzu D-Max is one of 36 Isuzu models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2002. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Isuzu D-Max properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Honda Honda Accord, the Porsche Porsche Cayenne, the Mazda Mazda6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Isuzu D-Max reads like this: the record lists its engine as Diesel engine / Diesel: / 2.5 L List of Isuzu engines#4JA1-T / 4JA1-T Straight-four engine / I4 (2002–2005) / 2.5 L list of Isuzu engines#Isuzu J engine / 4JK1-TC / TCX I; kerb weight is recorded at 1650 –; drive goes through 5-speed MU-Series manual / 4-speed MaxMatic automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Isuzu story

Within Isuzu's own catalogue the Isuzu D-Max sits alongside the Isuzu Gemini (1974), the Geo Storm, the ISUZU SUPERMEDIC, the Isuzu 117 Coupé. The record names the Isuzu Faster as its predecessor and the Chevrolet Colorado (for Chevrolet D-Max) / Chevrolet S10 Max (for Chevrolet D-Max) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Chile: Arica (until 2008) / China: Baoding, Hebei (Great Wall Motors / Great Wall), Foshan, Guangdong (Foday) / Ecuador: Quito / Egypt: 6th of October City / Nigeria: Lagos (GMNL) .

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Isuzu D-Max costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.