Yahoo Autos Isuzu Gemini Dances Across Paris!
If our roving correspondent and Man of Mystery Mr. Regular is telling the truth, then the long-forgotten Isuzu Gemini and I-Mark twins are really "the gum packs for sale at the bottom of the vending machine. Who buys those? People who don't have money for Ho Hos, that's who."
But the 1985 Gemini, a milquetoast hatch sucked up in GM's Geo vacuum, deserves to be remembered-if not solely for the commercial above, an impactful series of stuntwork romantically called "Dancing In Paris," where a pair of Geminis (like its namesake) twirl about Paris's most famous plazas, whose budget in tires, banged-up bodywork, and the services of aspiring Ken Blocks could probably pay for every single Gemini ever produced.
Eventually, entire armies of Isuzu compacts descend upon the City of Lights. Gemini: the car that ate Paris!
Rémy Julienne coordinated the stunt driving. You have certainly seen his work. Out of the over 200 stunt credits to his name, the former rally champion managed the driving stunts in nearly every James Bond movie since 1981's For Your Eyes Only. As such, the stunts were just as they appeared: Geminis on two wheels, in snakelike formation, driving down the stairs into the Metro, powersliding in front of the Eiffel Tower. One popular YouTube variant includes a dance song from 2002 scientifically engineered by Germans to burrow into your earholes. The action speaks for itself. For the Isuzu Gemini, possibly more than anything else could.
But the best part? It is, arguably, when the Geminis bound like happy little rabbits across the Seine's famous river barges.
One source sums it up nicely: "The slogan, 'Machi No Yuugekishu' means 'The Urban Acrobat.' Indeed!"
