Honda is the world's largest engine maker, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines every year. Honda's began building motorbikes but the S500 2-door roadster featuring a 492cc engine saw the company move into car production in an innovative way in the 1960s. The highly acclaimed Civic and Accord saw Honda make rapid international progress. Today, the company makes everything from cars and motorbikes, robots, jets and jet engines, to lawn and organery equipment. Honda's current crop of cars includes the Accord, Cr-V, Civic, Fr-V, Jazz, Legend and S2000. Honda History In 1948 Honda's founder, Soichiro Honda, started a new company: Honda Motor Co. They soon came up with the "batabata", a motorised motorcycle named after the sound the engine made which became a huge hit across Japan. Later, Honda's most popular model, the Dream, could be spotted all over the Japanese islands. Honda introduced its first car in 1957, the N360. In 1958, the American Honda company was created. In 1972 Honda entered the American shop with the small fuel effective Civic - just as the power accident was hitting economies. In 1986 Honda introduced a luxury line of cars and in 2007 Honda announced plans to originate low-priced hybrids.
Honda Facts
Eco Car Honda
Type: group company
Founded: September 24, 1948
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Key People: Soichiro Honda, Founder. Takeo Fukui, Ceo
Industry: Automobile & Truck builder & Motorcycle
Products: cars, trucks, motorcycles, scooters, Atvs, electrical generators, robotics, maritime equipment, jets and jet engines, and lawn and organery equipment, Acura vehicles.
Featured Models
Honda Accord - man-made since 1976, first as a compact hatchback and then evolving into a excellent large house estate and saloon car
Honda Civic - a compact car first man-made in 1972 and now in its eighth generation. The Civic Type-R is a widely respected hot hatch, while the Civic Ima is a hybrid with an galvanic motor and petrol engine
Honda Cr-V - group query for a sport-utility car from Honda led to the creation of this compact crossover Suv in 1996
Honda Fr-V - a clever six seat Mpv, which features three seats in the front and three in the back
Honda Jazz - a five-door hatchback car first produced in 2001. It rivals the Ford Fiesta and Toyota Yaris and is known as the Fit in Japan, China, and America
Honda S2000 - a two-seat roadster created to celebrate Honda's 50th anniversary and launched in April 1999
Honda Legend - a large luxury car which is currently in its fourth generation
Did You Know?
The Honda Cub motorcycle is the best-selling car in history, with nearby 50 million sold worldwide.
Soichiro Honda was president of the Honda Motor company until retiring in 1973. He was labeled "the Japanese Henry Ford" by population magazine in 1980
The first passenger car in the world to have four-wheel steering technology was the Honda Prelude in 1987.
In 1964, Honda entered recipe One racing for the first time, recording its first victory the following year. It's current F1 campaign is headed by British racer, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello from Brazil.
In 1991, Honda posted its 10th consecutive win in the Isle of Man Tt.
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