Isuzu Wizard Alive

The Isuzu Wizard Alive was a five-door-only SUV that Isuzu sold from June 2000 to the end of 2002, the rear-wheel-drive version of the Wizard. The Mu Wizard, which began as the five-door Mu, became the Wizard after a full model change in 1998 and at first came only with part-time four-wheel drive; a rear-drive Wizard was added the next year. At the facelift of May 2000 the rear-drive car was split off as the Alive. It shares the Wizard basic construction but is simplified: drum brakes at the rear against four ventilated discs on the Wizard, and no limited-slip differential even as an option. To set it apart from the Wizard no diesel was offered, only petrol engines, and the grades were named LS and S. Isuzu ended production and sales in December 2002 when it withdrew from passenger cars.