J-Bus is a Japanese manufacturer of buses and coaches formed as a joint venture between the truck makers Isuzu and Hino. The two companies announced in January 2002 that they would combine their bus development and manufacturing, merging Hino Auto Body Industries and Isuzu Bus Manufacturing, and the venture was established in October 2002 with integration finished in 2004. It runs two assembly plants, at Komatsu in Ishikawa, which mostly builds coaches and houses the headquarters, and at Utsunomiya, which builds transit buses. It builds badge-engineered models sold under both parent names, such as the Hino Selega and Isuzu Gala coaches and the Isuzu Erga and Hino Blue Ribbon city buses, and it assembles the Toyota Sora fuel cell bus.
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J-Bus is a Japanese manufacturer of buses and coaches established in 2002 as a joint venture between Isuzu and Hino.
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J-Bus is a Japanese manufacturer of buses and coaches established in 2002 as a joint venture between Isuzu and Hino.
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As of June 2023, J-Bus assembles various coach and transit bus models.
Subsidiary Of: Isuzu Motors, Lead, joint venture partner Isuzu
J-Bus is a Japanese manufacturer of buses and coaches established in 2002 as a joint venture between Isuzu and Hino.
Subsidiary Of: Hino Motors, Lead, joint venture partner Hino
J-Bus is a Japanese manufacturer of buses and coaches established in 2002 as a joint venture between Isuzu and Hino.
Operates In: Bus Manufacturing Industry, Lead, business
J-Bus is a Japanese manufacturer of buses and coaches
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