I don't know why you guys are bagging on the Izuzu I-Mark. They are really fast, from what I recall.
Case in point: When I first got my drivers license some twenty odd years ago, I thought it might be fun to do a stoplight drag (I know, take it to the track, etc) against an I-Mark (
Diesel, no less).
Long story short: The I-Mark
smoked me. We must have been doing close to 35mph at the end of the 1/2 mile run, barely in control of our cars' massive horsepower outputs.
My car at the time: '71 Mercury Comet hand-me-down from Gramps.
End result: I bought a Datsun 510 a few months later.
Have fun, Matt, but be careful!
Jim