A commercial vehicle disc brake, comprising: a brake caliper; a brake pad including a brake pad backing plate and a brake pad friction material affixed to the backing plate, and a carrier mount having brake pad abutment surfaces configured to receive the brake pad, a brake disk, wherein the brake pad friction material of the brake pad has a radial height, non-parallel lateral sides (12, 13) and arc lengths in a circumferential direction of the brake disc that are larger at a radially outer side of the brake pad than at a radially inner side of the brake pad, wherein the arc length at the radially outer side of the brake pad has a radius of curvature, wherein the brake pad friction material has non-parallel lateral sides along their entire length and lines extending from each of the non-parallel friction material lateral sides (12, 13) intersect one another at an included angle which is smaller than an included angle between lines extending from circumferential ends of the radially outer side of the brake pad to a point of origin of a rotation axis of the brake disk, characterized in that the brake pad backing plate non-parallel lateral sides include brake pad retention features projecting laterally from the brake pad lateral sides, the carrier mount brake pad abutment surfaces are configured with a shape that complements a shape of the brake pad backing plate lateral sides and include brake pad retention feature receiving features, the brake pad retention features project laterally from the lateral sides of the brake pad backing plate no further than a maximum lateral extent of the brake pad backing plate in a radially outer region, the maximum lateral extent not including a laterally-projecting portion of the brake pad retaining features. a brake caliper; a brake pad including a brake pad backing plate and a brake pad friction material affixed to the backing plate, and a carrier mount having brake pad abutment surfaces configured to receive the brake pad, a brake disk, wherein the brake pad friction material of the brake pad has a radial height, non-parallel lateral sides (12, 13) and arc lengths in a circumferential direction of the brake disc that are larger at a radially outer side of the brake pad than at a radially inner side of the brake pad, wherein the arc length at the radially outer side of the brake pad has a radius of curvature, wherein the brake pad friction material has non-parallel lateral sides along their entire length and lines extending from each of the non-parallel friction material lateral sides (12, 13) intersect one another at an included angle which is smaller than an included angle between lines extending from circumferential ends of the radially outer side of the brake pad to a point of origin of a rotation axis of the brake disk, wherein the brake pad friction material of the brake pad has a radial height, non-parallel lateral sides (12, 13) and arc lengths in a circumferential direction of the brake disc that are larger at a radially outer side of the brake pad than at a radially inner side of the brake pad, wherein the arc length at the radially outer side of the brake pad has a radius of curvature, wherein the brake pad friction material has non-parallel lateral sides along their entire length and lines extending from each of the non-parallel friction material lateral sides (12, 13) intersect one another at an included angle which is smaller than an included angle between lines extending from circumferential ends of the radially outer side of the brake pad to a point of origin of a rotation axis of the brake disk, characterized in that the brake pad backing plate non-parallel lateral sides include brake pad retention features projecting laterally from the brake pad lateral sides, the carrier mount brake pad abutment surfaces are configured with a shape that complements a shape of the brake pad backing plate lateral sides and include brake pad retention feature receiving features, the brake pad retention features project laterally from the lateral sides of the brake pad backing plate no further than a maximum lateral extent of the brake pad backing plate in a radially outer region, the maximum lateral extent not including a laterally-projecting portion of the brake pad retaining features.