The Isuzu Florian is a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon from Isuzu, built from 1967 to 1983, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 1.6 .
The background
The Isuzu Florian is an intermediate class car manufactured by Isuzu in Japan from November 1967 until 1983. The Florian's body remained essentially the same through its unusually long life cycle, being afforded only two moderate facelifts.
The Isuzu Florian (Project 117) was originally presented as the Ghia Isuzu 117 Sedan at the 1966 Tokyo Motor Show and shared its complete chassis with the closely related Isuzu 117 Coupé. Originally available only with a 1.6 liter gasoline inline-four engine (1600 Deluxe) producing 84 PS (62 kW) at 5200 rpm, a 1.8 liter version was later added as was a diesel option, first seen in 1977.
The engineering
Power comes from 1.6 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1345 kg. It shifts through a 3/4/5-speed manual / 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2500 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Isuzu Bellel; its successor was the Isuzu Aska; assembly was at Fujisawa, Kanagawa (Fujisawa Plant), Japan. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Pontiac Firebird, the Peugeot 504, the Dodge Charger — show what else the money bought that year. Its Isuzu stablemates include the Isuzu Gemini and the 4000 Series Medium Duty.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Isuzu Florian — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.