UD Trucks
Native name | UDトラックス株式会社 |
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Romanized name | UD Torakkusu Kabushiki-gaisha |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | December 1, 1935 |
| Founder | Kenzo Adachi |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
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| Products | Trucks |
| Parent | Isuzu |
| Website | udtrucks |
UD Trucks Corporation (UDトラックス株式会社, UD Torakkusu Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese company whose principal business is the manufacturing and sales of diesel trucks, buses, bus chassis and special-purpose vehicles. Its headquarters are located in Ageo, Saitama, Japan. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Isuzu since 2021. Until 2010, the company was known as Nissan Diesel.
The UD name was originally used for the company's Uniflow Diesel Engine (a two-stroke diesel engine), developed in 1955, but is now marketed as meaning "Ultimate Dependability".