North American Bus Industries (NABI) is a major transit bus manufacturing company based in Anniston, Alabama, USA. NABI was founded in 1992 when the Hungarian firm Ikarus Bus, a key bus supplier to Central, Eastern Europe, spun off a majority share of their American operations to American/Hungarian investors amid financial instabilities in the wake of the end of the Cold War.
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