Isuzu Motors India Private Limited is a subsidiary of Isuzu Motors Limited, Japan was established in August 2012 in India having its manufacturing plant in Sri City, now in Tirupati district,

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55KM away from Chennai. The Corporate Head Office is present in Vadapalani,

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. Isuzu currently sells a range of

Isuzu D-Max The Isuzu D-Max is a pickup truck manufactured since 2002 by Isuzu Motors. A successor of the Isuzu Faster/KB, the first and second-generation model shares its platform with the Chevrolet Colorado. The third-generation model shares its platfo ...

pick-up trucks that includes variants like Regular Cab Flat Deck and S-CAB. Isuzu also sells the MU-X, a large sized Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) in automatic transmission in India. Both vehicle models are available through Isuzu's exclusive dealer outlets. Isuzu Motors India unveiled the ISUZU D-MAX V-Cross, India's first adventure utility vehicle at the

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2016. The V-Cross has been positioned as a lifestyle pick-up and can be registered as a personal vehicle. In Dec-2020 Isuzu Motors India launched a contest for existing Indian businesses and startups with an aim to reward the best business idea using the Isuzu D-Max as a trusted business partner, by giving away the Isuzu D-Max Super Strong variant as the prize to kick-start their venture. The company has so far established its network with 43 dealer outlets in the country including key cities such as Delhi, Jaipur, Gurugram, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Madurai, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Cochin, Calicut, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Indore, Vadodara, Kolkata, Jalandhar,

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, Mohali, Nagpur, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Faridabad and Pune. The current products are sold through these dedicated Isuzu outlets to cater to the market demand for pick-up trucks. Isuzu Motors India has plans to increase its dealer outlets significantly in future. Isuzu Motors India signed a MoU with the Andhra Pradesh Government to facilitate investments by its nominated supplier partners in the state. The auto component companies signed MoUs to explore possibilities of appropriate investments in the state and to cater to the requirements of the OEMs having their manufacturing facilities in the state. Isuzu Motors Limited, Japan - headquartered in

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, is a global manufacturer of light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, utility vehicles and diesel engines. The company has operations in over 25 countries, selling in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company has significant market share in pickups and pickup based derivatives in many markets. The company manufactures and sells over 6 lakh vehicles annually across the world. Isuzu has been in the diesel engine field for long time and had built over 23 million diesels since its predecessor developed Japan's first air-cooled automotive diesel engine in 1936.

Manufacturing facility

Officials of Isuzu and the state government signed the MoU here in the presence of Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on 15 March 2013 to setup manufacturing facility in Sricity, Chittoor District. Isuzu Motors India inaugurated its manufacturing plant at Sri City,

which is located in chittoor district on 27 April 2016. The first locally made Isuzu D-Max and V-Cross rolled out from the

assembly line An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a ''progressive assembly'') in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in seq ...

s on the day of the inauguration in April 2016.

History

Since its inception in 1916, the company - Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd, has been in the field of manufacturing automobiles. The company later in 1934 named its truck 'Isuzu' which was then altered and the company was reorganised to 'Isuzu Motors Limited' in the year 1949 with a capital of 150 million yen. Since then, the company grew with the introduction of new products and diesel engines for the commercial and passenger vehicle segments, across the globe.

References

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