HISTORY OF ISUZU
More than 100-year Long History
The purpose of transportation is to connect people, and we at ISUZU pride ourselves in doing beyond that.
In the past, ships were the best way to transport large amounts of goods and people. In fact, the history of ISUZU dates back to a shipyard established by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1853. Water transportation inevitably shifted towards that of land and the shipyard began, in 1916, to plan the manufacture of automobiles. This was the foundation of ISUZU.
ISUZU’s grand heritage includes the manufacture of Japan’s first passenger car, the A9 in 1922, the first truck, the CP in 1924, and the first air-cooled diesel engines, the DA4 and DA6 in 1936.
“ISUZU” was first used as the name of the TX trucks and the BX bus in 1934. It is also the name of the holy river that flows through ISE Grand Shrine, the oldest and most important shrine in Japan. ISUZU was adopted as the company name in 1949.
ISUZU has supported logistics and mobility for connecting people’s lives from the outset. Our products have widely been used in more than 120 countries around the world including on the vast Middle East.
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