31 Facts About Isuzu Motors

Isuzu Motors has assembly and manufacturing plants in Fujisawa, which have been there since the company was founded under earlier names, as well as in the Tochigi and Hokkaido prefectures.

Isuzu Motors' history began in 1916, when Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.

The next step was taken in 1918, when a technical cooperation with Wolseley Isuzu Motors Limited was initiated, yielding exclusive rights to the production and sales of Wolseley vehicles in East Asia from knock-down kits.

Isuzu Motors continued to manufacture heavy duty trucks and passenger busses, realizing the need to modernize the transportation infrastructure of Japan, and was one of the primary manufacturers for the Imperial Japanese Army along with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and had a corporate allegiance to the Yasuda Zaibatsu.

In 1958 a factory was built at Fujisawa, Kanagawa, and in 1959 the Isuzu Motors Elf was introduced as a medium duty cab over commercial truck which is still in production, and was shared with the Isuzu Motors Journey bus.

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Isuzu Motors continued to maintain its market presence by providing commercial vehicles by introducing the Isuzu Motors TY in 1966.

Isuzu Motors is one of the primary manufacturers of commercial duty trucks and busses for public transportation, to include the Isuzu Cubic, Isuzu Gala and the Isuzu Erga along with the Isuzu Giga.

In 1974 Isuzu introduced the Gemini, which was co-produced with General Motors as the T-body Chevrolet Chevette.

Isuzu Motors exports increased considerably as a result of being able to use GM networks, from 0.

In 1981 Isuzu Motors began selling consumer and commercial vehicles under their own brand in the United States.

Isuzu Motors ended US sales of the Impulse in 1992, and the following year it stopped exporting the Stylus, the last Isuzu Motors-built car sold in the US.

Isuzu Motors's United States sales reached a peak in 1996 after the introduction of the Isuzu Motors Hombre pickup, a badge-engineered GM truck.

Isuzu Motors resurrected the beloved Amigo in 1998, before changing the name of the 2-door convertible to Rodeo Sport in 2001 in an attempt to associate it with the better selling 4-door Rodeo.

Isuzu Motors sales began to slide due to the aging of the Rodeo and Trooper, and poor management and a lack of assistance from GM.

In 1998 GM and Isuzu Motors formed DMAX, a joint venture to produce diesel engines.

In 2001 GM and Isuzu Motors announced plans to share distribution networks and for Chevrolet to market an Isuzu Motors product.

Isuzu Motors had 290 light-vehicle dealers in the US in August 2006, and sold an average of just two Ascenders per dealer per month, and rumors of Isuzu Motors's withdrawal from the US market were rampant.

Plans to introduce a new Thai-built SUV for 2007 were shelved when Isuzu Motors Limited decided that a new SUV would be too risky, instead proceeding with the launch of the i-series trucks.

In late 2002 Isuzu Motors initiated a recapitalization and debt-for-equity conversion plan to stave off a bankruptcy.

Isuzu Motors sold just 1,504 vehicles in North America in the first two months of 2006.

GM ended its equity investment in Isuzu Motors and sold all its shares to Mitsubishi Corporation, Itochu and Mizuho Corporate Bank; both GM and Isuzu Motors claimed the companies would continue their relationship, but there was no word as of April 12,2006 on the effect this would have on DMAX operations.

Isuzu Motors said it would use its engineering expertise to develop the pickup and GM would develop derivatives based on the integrated platform.

On January 30,2008 Isuzu Motors announced its complete withdrawal from the US market, effective January 31,2009.

Isuzu Motors had been experiencing a slow decline since the late 1990s.

In December 2019, Isuzu Motors announced that it had signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding which would eventually see Volvo sell UD Trucks to them.

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In most of Asia and Africa, Isuzu Motors is known primarily for trucks of all sizes, after Isuzu Motors dropped all sales of sedans and compact cars in the late 1990s due to plummeting sales.

In 2009, Isuzu Motors abandoned the United States consumer market due to lack of sales.

Isuzu Motors America discontinued the sale of passenger vehicles in the United States on January 31,2009.

Isuzu Motors explained to its dealers that it had not been able to secure replacements for the Isuzu Ascender and Isuzu i-Series that would be commercially viable.

Isuzu Motors has a contract with Budget Truck Rental to manufacture their rental trucks, shared with Ford, GMC, and Navistar International.

Isuzu Motors claimed the largest share of the Thai commercial vehicle market, outperforming its competitors for at least 23 years.