History Of Honda Company

FOUNDER: - SOICHIRO HONDA ESTABLISHED AT: - HAMAMATSU(JAPAN) ON 24^TH SEP. 1948

He dreamt of providing people, everywhere in the world an economical means of transportation. He invented better ways of making piston rings and found a company around the idea and began production. Then his company started producing small motorcycles, including one built in 1949 called D-type dream.

 Then he thought of high capacity motorcycles and taking them to racing. So his company made bigger and faster machines, two, four, five and six-cylinder race bikes and participated in the Isle of Man TT race (125 cc motorcycle class).

He wanted to share his new motorcycles with the world and therefore he opened American Honda Motor Co. in Los Angeles. Also Honda began manufacturing motorcycles at its Suzuka factory in 1960. Honda launched its first sports car, the S500 in Japan and entered Formula-1 in 1964.

In 1989, Soichiro Honda became the first Asian to be inducted into U.S. Automotive Hall of Fame. In 1990, Honda wins its fifth consecutive 1st ranking in the J.D. Power   Consumer Satisfaction Index. In 1993, founder Soichiro Honda passed away. He dreamt of changing the way people looked at motorcycles and gave us machines that were powerful & fun to ride. SOICHIRO HONDA’S dreams changed the world of motorcycling forever.

Filed Under: Automobile Engineering, Honda, Mechanical Engineering on Saturday, December 29, 2012