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REPORT: Toyota cancels European diesel project with Isuzu

After General Motors severed its ownership ties with Isuzu two years ago, the struggling Japanese automaker hooked up with Toyota. While Isuzu has never really made much of an impact in the car market, they have been successful in commercial vehicles, particularly with diesel engines. Toyota decided to tap that expertise to help develop a new small displacement diesel engine for the European market. Unfortunately, huge losses for Toyota this year have caused it to slash spending on many programs. One of the victims of the cutbacks has been that ... Read more →

Diesel-powered Isuzu D-Max caught testing in US Jeremy Korzeniewski

As much as we'd like to tell you that General Motors is considering adding a small diesel engine to its GMT 355 platform, we're not going to. While we do have visual evidence that an Isuzu D-Max, ...

Toyota and Isuzu stall European diesel engine venture Jeremy Korzeniewski

Diesel engines are super popular over in Europe and every auto manufacturer that truly wants to play ball there needs to offer world-class oil-burners. Despite this undeniable fact, Toyota has ...

FedEx puts 2 million miles on hybrid trucks, adds 75 more Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click on the image to view in high-res According to FedEx, its hybrid delivery vehicles have saved approximately 83,000 gallons of fuel and eliminated 950 tons of greenhouse gas emissions while ...

Corporate Express will test Isuzu hybrid truck for delivery Xavier Navarro

Corporate Express has announced that it will be one of the first U.S. companies to test an Isuzu hybrid delivery truck for its operations. The model will be a current Isuzu truck in which Enova ...

Isuzu and Toyota expand their relationship 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last week, we told you that Isuzu and Toyota had announced that they were collaborating on a new small diesel engine. This week, they say that they are expanding that collaboration to also include new clean diesel exhaust technology. This agreement is between Hino Motors, Toyota's truck division, ...

Toyota and Isuzu to collaborate on small diesel engines 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Isuzu may not be particularly successful as a purveyor of cars - particularly in the US market - but they have done much better in the medium duty truck market and as a designer and producer of diesel engines. Their joint venture with General Motors to produce diesels under the Duramax brand for ...

GM builds their 1 Millionth DuraMax diesel V-8 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Since it's introduction for the 2001 model year the GM Duramax 6.6L diesel V-8 has been one of the most highly regarded truck diesels on the market. The engines were jointly developed with Isuzu Motors and built in a joint-venture plant in Dayton, Ohio. The DMAX plant has just produced the one ...

Toyota to sell diesel hybrid in 2010 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

After hooking up with Isuzu a couple of weeks ago, Toyota is now going to start taking advantage of Isuzu's diesel expertise. For the first time Toyota is going to combine their Synergy hybrid drive system with diesel engines. A diesel hybrid system has the potential to provide the best of both ...

Isuzu sticks with GM for DuraMax diesel engine joint-venture 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

One of the technical highlights of the last generation GMT-800 full-size trucks from GM was the Duramax turbo-diesel V-8. This strong, efficient, refined engine was miles ahead of the Navistar engine in the Ford trucks and the Cummins engine that Dodge uses. The Duramax diesels are built by a ...

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