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Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; ) is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known

as a manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and power equipment.

Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's

largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more

than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda became the second-largest

Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer

in the world behind General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Toyota, Hyundai Motor Group, Ford,

Nissan, and PSA in 2011. Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer

to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986. Aside from their core automobile

and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal

watercraft and power generators, amongst others. Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial

intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot in 2000. They have also

ventured into aerospace with the establishment of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the Honda

HA-420 HondaJet, which began production in 2012. Honda has three joint-ventures in China.

In 2013, Honda invested about 5.7% of its revenues in research and development. Also

in 2013, Honda became the first Japanese automaker to be a net exporter from the United States,

exporting 108,705 Honda and Acura models while importing only 88,357.

History As a young man, Honda's founder, Honda Sōichirō

had an interest in automobiles. He worked as a mechanic at the Art Shokai garage, where

he tuned cars and entered them in races. In 1937, with financing from his acquaintance

Kato Shichirō, Honda founded Tōkai Seiki to make piston rings working out of the Art

Shokai garage. After initial failures, Tōkai Seiki won a contract to supply piston rings

to Toyota, but lost the contract due to the poor quality of their products. After attending

engineering school without graduating, and visiting factories around Japan to better

understand Toyota's quality control processes, by 1941 Honda was able to mass-produce piston

rings acceptable to Toyota, using an automated process that could employ even unskilled wartime

laborers. Tōkai Seiki was placed under control of the

Ministry of Commerce and Industry at the start of World War II, and Soichiro Honda was demoted

from president to senior managing director after Toyota took a 40% stake in the company.

Honda also aided the war effort by assisting other companies in automating the production

of military aircraft propellers. The relationships Honda cultivated with personnel at Toyota,

Nakajima Aircraft Company and the Imperial Japanese Navy would be instrumental in the

postwar period. A US B-29 bomber attack destroyed Tōkai Seiki's Yamashita plant in 1944, and

the Itawa plant collapsed in the 1945 Mikawa earthquake, and Soichiro Honda sold the salvageable

remains of the company to Toyota after the war for ¥450,000, and used the proceeds to

found the Honda Technical Research Institute in October 1946. With a staff of 12 men working

in a 16 m2 shack, they built and sold improvised motorized bicycles, using a supply of 500

two-stroke 50 cc Tohatsu war surplus radio generator engines. When the engines ran out,

Honda began building their own copy of the Tohatsu engine, and supplying these to customers

to attach their bicycles. This was the Honda Model A, nicknamed the Bata Bata for the sound

the engine made. In 1949, the Honda Technical Research Institute was liquidated for ¥1,000,000,

or about US$5,000 today; these funds were used to incorporate Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

At about the same time Honda hired engineer Kihachiro Kawashima, and Takeo Fujisawa who

provided indispensable business and marketing expertise to complement Soichiro Honda's technical

bent. The close partnership between Soichiro Honda and Fujisawa lasted until they stepped

down together in October 1973. The first complete motorcycle, with both the

frame and engine made by Honda, was the 1949 Model D, the first Honda to go by the name

Dream. Honda Motor Company grew in a short time to become the world's largest manufacturer

of motorcycles by 1964. The first production automobile from Honda

was the T360 mini pick-up truck, which went on sale in August 1963. Powered by a small

356-cc straight-4 gasoline engine, it was classified under the cheaper Kei car tax bracket.

The first production car from Honda was the S500 sports car, which followed the T360 into

production in October 1963. Its chain-driven rear wheels pointed to Honda's motorcycle

origins. Over the next few decades, Honda worked to

expand its product line and expanded operations and exports to numerous countries around the

world. In 1986, Honda introduced the successful Acura brand to the American market in an attempt

to gain ground in the luxury vehicle market. The year 1991 saw the introduction of the

Honda NSX supercar, the first all-aluminum monocoque vehicle that incorporated a mid-engine

V6 with variable-valve timing. CEO Tadashi Kume was succeeded by Nobuhiko

Kawamoto in 1990. Kawamoto was selected over Shoichiro Irimajiri, who oversaw the successful

establishment of Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. in Marysville, Ohio. Both Kawamoto and

Irimajiri shared a friendly rivalry within Honda, and Irimajiri would resign in 1992

due to health issues. Following the death of Soichiro Honda and

the departure of Irimajiri, Honda found itself quickly being outpaced in product development

by other Japanese automakers and was caught off-guard by the truck and sport utility vehicle

boom of the 1990s, all which took a toll on the profitability of the company. Japanese

media reported in 1992 and 1993 that Honda was at serious risk of an unwanted and hostile

takeover by Mitsubishi Motors, who at the time was a larger automaker by volume and

flush with profits from their successful Pajero and Diamante.

Kawamoto acted quickly to change Honda's corporate culture, rushing through market-driven product

development that resulted in recreational vehicles such as the Odyssey and the CR-V,

and a refocusing away from some of the numerous sedans and coupes that were popular with Honda's

engineers but not with the buying public. The most shocking change to Honda came when

Kawamoto ended Honda's successful participation in Formula One after the 1992 season, citing

costs in light of the takeover threat from Mitsubishi as well as the desire to create

a more environmentally-friendly company image. Later, 1995 gave rise to the Honda Aircraft

Company with the goal of producing jet aircraft under Honda's name.

Honda is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Their shares trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

and the New York Stock Exchange, as well as exchanges in Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kyoto,

Fukuoka, London, Paris and Switzerland. The company has assembly plants around the

globe. These plants are located in China, the United States, Pakistan, Canada, England,

Japan, Belgium, Brazil, México, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Thailand,

Vietnam, Turkey, Taiwan, Perú and Argentina. As of July 2010, 89 percent of Honda and Acura

vehicles sold in the United States were built in North American plants, up from 82.2 percent

a year earlier. This shields profits from the yen's advance to a 15-year high against

the dollar. Honda's Net Sales and Other Operating Revenue

by Geographical Regions in 2007 American Honda Motor Company is based in Torrance,

California. Honda Racing Corporation is Honda's motorcycle racing division. Honda Canada Inc.

is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, their manufacturing division, Honda of Canada Manufacturing,

is based in Alliston, Ontario. Honda has also created joint ventures around the world, such

as Honda Siel Cars and Hero Honda Motorcycles in India, Guangzhou Honda and Dongfeng Honda

in China, Boon Siew Honda in Malaysia and Honda Atlas in Pakistan.

Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 Honda announced plans to halve

production at its UK plants. The decision was made to put staff at the Swindon plant

on a 2-day week until the end of May as the manufacturer struggled to source supplies

from Japan. It's thought around 22,500 cars were produced during this period.

Honda's global lineup consists of the Fit, Civic, Accord, Insight, CR-V, CR-Z, Legend

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