Isuzu Motors Ltd. (いすゞ自動車株式会社 Isuzu Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha?), (TYO: 7202 ) is a Japanese commercial vehicle and heavy truck manufacturer company, headquartered in Tokyo. In 2005, Isuzu was the world's largest manufacturer of medium duty trucks. It has assembly and manufacturing plants in the Japanese city of Fujisawa, as well as in the prefectures Tochigi and Hokkaido. Isuzu is famous for producing commercial vehicles and diesel engines - it produced 16 million diesel engines in 2003 alone, which can be found in vehicles all over the world. In addition to making trucks of all sizes, from 1953 to 1993 Isuzu manufactured passenger vehicles.[citation needed]Although best known in the United States for automobiles and SUVs, Isuzu as a corporation has always been primarily a manufacturer of commercial trucks of sizes medium duty and larger. On November 7, 2006, Toyota acquired 5.9% of Isuzu, making them the third largest shareholder behind ITOCHU and Mitsubishi Corporation.