page_title: Navistar International
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: Navistar International / History / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: International MXT photographed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
context_page_description: Navistar International Corporation is an American holding company created in 1986 as the successor to International Harvester. Navistar operates as the owner of International brand of trucks and diesel engines. The company also produces military vehicles through its Navistar Defense subsidiary along with bus production through IC Bus. Currently, Traton SE is the largest stakeholder of Navistar, owning 17% of the company.
  Headquartered in Lisle, Illinois, the company has 13,000 employees worldwide as of 2019. Navistar operates through a network of nearly 1,000 dealer outlets in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and more than 60 dealers in 90 countries throughout the world. The company also provides financing for its customers and distributors principally through its wholly owned subsidiary, Navistar Financial Corporation.
context_section_description: After nearly a century of business in Chicago, Navistar announced its plans on 30 September 2000 to leave the city and relocate its corporate offices to west suburban Warrenville, Illinois.   In 2002, AmTran was rebranded as IC (Integrated Coach) after a few months as International Truck and Bus.
  
  In 2001, International introduced the first "NGV" trucks, its first completely new truck design since the 1986 introduction of Navistar.  Initially using the "Thousand"-series nomenclature, in 2008, the NGV trucks adopted -"Star" branding (only the 9000-series remained).    
  In 2004, Navistar re-entered the retail vehicle market for the first time since 1980, with the International XT (Extreme Truck) series.  Three pickup trucks were sold; two of the three versions (CXT and RXT) were International Durastar medium-duty trucks (fitted with Ford F-350 pickup beds).  The third version (the MXT) was essentially a street-legal version of a Navistar-designed military vehicle.  (By far) the largest vehicles ever sold for consumer sale, the XT series was sold through the 2008 model year.
  In 2005, Navistar purchased the Workhorse company (started in 1998 by investors who took over production and sales of General Motors’ popular P-series Stepvan chassis when GM dropped it), a manufacturer of step-van and motor home chassis, to seemingly re-enter the delivery van market. It appeared that the new subsidiary might also benefit by its association with a company whose history from the 1930s into the '60s included the popular Metro van. For a short time Workhorse offered an integrated chassis-body product called MetroStar. In Sept. of 2012, Navistar announced the shut down of Workhorse and the closure of the plant in Union City, Indiana, in order to cut costs. Workhorse has since repositioned itself as a manufacturer of electrically powered trucks and delivery vans.
caption: International MXT, the smallest of the XT pickup trucks
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