Isuzu Vehicles to Use Engines Made in America

Isuzu Motors Ltd. will purchase U.S.-made engines for vehicles it exports and Isuzu trucks produced in the United States, a company spokesman said Monday.

Isuzu Motors plans to purchase 30,000 gasoline engines from General Motors annually, of which 10,000 units will be sent to Japan, Takashi Fujii said.

The GM engine will be used in about 10% of the small pickup trucks and multipurpose four-wheel drive cars Isuzu plans to export to the United States this fall, Fujii said.

The remaining 20,000 engines will be installed in a third of the 60,000 small pickups that Isuzu will produce annually in an Indiana factory set up jointly with Fuji Heavy Industries, to begin in the fall of 1989.