Ashok Leyland Car Models in India

Ashok Leyland is an Indian automobile manufacturing company. Founded in 1948, they are the 2nd largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in India, the 4th largest manufacturer of buses in the world.

Ashok Leyland, the Hinduja Group flagship, and Nissan Motor Company came together in 2007 to address the growing Light Commercial Vehicle market by jointly leveraging their mutual strengths. The 50:50 Joint Venture agreement that was inked by the two partners in May, 2008, resides in three separate companies for Technology Development, Powertrain Manufacturing and Vehicle Manufacturing.

The Joint Venture brings together Nissans tradition of engineering excellence and quality orientation with Ashok Leylands intimate knowledge of the market and cost efficient value addition in India.

The primary objective of the Joint Venture is to deliver Japanese quality with Indian relevance a value proposition that will resonate meaningfully with Indian customers which finds true expression in the first product from the Joint Venture DOST.