Private company

Anadolu Isuzu

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Turkish joint venture automobile company

Anadolu Isuzu (officially Anadolu Isuzu Automotive Industry & Trading A.Ş.) is a joint venture company based in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the collaboration between Anadolu Group, Isuzu, Itochu and HICOM. Its main fields of operation are the production and marketing of light duty trucks and midibuses.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Anadolu Isuzu (officially Anadolu Isuzu Automotive Industry & Trading A.Ş.) is a joint venture company based in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the collaboration between Anadolu Group, Isuzu, Itochu and HICOM. Its main fields of operation are the production and marketing of light duty trucks and midibuses. Since the establishment of the company in 1984, more than 80,000 commercial vehicles have been produced in accordance with the Isuzu Motors license agreement. Anadolu Isuzu is the first Turco-Japanese joint venture in the automotive sector.2

Products and brands

  • truck

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Light and medium duty truck models feature elongated chassis option and bigger front bumper than global models. Over 10 tonner trucks and all buses equipped with Wabco dual circuit full air brake system. Except Citiport bus, the entire range is powered by Isuzu engines, which are Euro 5/EEV compliant for local market, and Euro 2 to Euro 6 compliant for export.

Pickup trucks

D-Max (4x4) - Double cab with manual and automatic transmission options

D-Max (4x2) - Double and single cab options

Light trucks

NLR (3.5 tons)

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N-Wide (3.5 tons) - Locally developed wide cab variant of NLR for local market

Trucks

FSR "Tora" (16 tons)

NPR 3D (12.5 tons) - Features liftable third beam axle

NPR 10 (10 tons)

NPR 8 (8 tons)

Midibuses

Isuzu Classic/Urban/Ecobus/Oasis (27 seats) - 7 m (23 ft) length. Previous generation vocational midibus for export markets. Oasis additionally features jump seats and air-filter snorkel for tough road and climate conditions.

Novo (27 seats) - 7.3 m (24 ft) length. Isuzu N-Series based vocational midibus

Novociti (55 passengers) - 7.5 m (25 ft) length, 2 door wheelchair accessible transit bus model

Turquoise (31 seats) - Isuzu N-Series based 7.7 m (25 ft) length tourism midibus

Novociti Life (60 passengers) - 8 m (26 ft) length, 2 door wheelchair accessible transit bus model

Visigo (39 seats) - 9.5 m (31 ft) length flagship tourism midibus

Citibus (76 passengers) - 9.5 m (31 ft) length, 3 door low floor transit bus model

Buses

Citiport 12 (107 passengers) - 12 m (39 ft) length, 3 door low floor transit bus model

Kendo 12.3 (59 seats) - 12.3 m (40 ft) length intercity bus

Kendo 13 CNG (63 seats) - 13 m (43 ft) length intercity bus

Citiport 18 (155 passengers) - 18.2 m (60 ft) length, 4 door low floor transit bus model

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Timeline

  1. 1984Founded Founded1

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