Top 15 Affordable Sports Cars of the 90s
Asüna Sunfire/Isuzu Impulse
Remember Asüna? It was another short-lived division of General Motors, created for the Canadian market to offer imported cars in Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealerships. The most significant model sold under the Asüna banner was the Sunfire, a near identical twin of the second-generation Isuzu Impulse. They both sported pop-up eyelids that gave the cars a mean face that we liked quite a bit. The Sunfire was equipped with a 130-horsepower, 1.6-litre twin-cam four-cylinder engine in 1991 and 1992, just like the Impulse XS. However, the very rare, 1991-only Impulse RS boasted a turbocharged and intercooled version of the 1.6-litre engine, good for 160 horsepower, along with all-wheel drive. The 1993 Sunfire, its final year of production, was equipped with a 1.8-litre four that produced 140 hp.