The Isuzu Ascender LWB (long wheelbase) is a mid-size SUV built by General Motors for Isuzu. Introduced for the 2003 model year, the 7-passenger Ascender was a re-badged GMC Envoy. It replaced the Japanese built mid-size Isuzu Trooper. A shorter 5-passenger, which was the SWB (short wheelbase) model which was a midsize SUV was made available for the 2004 model year as a replacement for the Rodeo and the Axiom. A Displacement on Demand V8 was introduced in 2004. Isuzu once offered a wide line of trucks, cars, and SUVs but the Ascender was Isuzu's last and only passenger vehicle until the introduction of the also slow-selling Isuzu i-Series pickup trucks, which were also built by GM in North America. The Ascender was never sold in Canada as Isuzu had announced, at the time, its withdrawal fr