Keen to jump into the highly profitable and steadily burgeoning SUV craze of the mid-90s, Honda’s luxury arm Acura released its first-ever SUV, the SLX, in 1996. The SLX was fundamentally a rebadged Isuzu Trooper. The two brands did a similar deal in 1993 on the first-generation Honda Passport, which was an Isuzu Rodeo with Honda branding. Honda figured the second-gen Isuzu Trooper fit the bill for Acura’s first SUV, marketing the SLX as a luxury SUV that could
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