HONDA
Brand
HONDAIn 1930, Soichiro Honda founded a piston segment production company, the Tokai Seiki Heavy Industry, which was acquired during World War II by Toyota.
At the end of the war Honda teamed up with Takeo Fujisawa, a businessman. With him he founded the Honda Motor Company in 1948. They grafted generator engines onto a bicycle. This was the creation of the Type A that launched Honda in the world of motorcycles.
He then produced his own motorcycles. Honda then became an important name for the bike.
Honda won all the world constructors' titles in 1967 with its multi-cylinder machines (50 cm3 twin-cylinder, 125cc five-cylinder, 250cc six-cylinder, etc.) all equipped with four-stroke engines. In the early 1970s, he became unbeatable in endurance by winning the Daytona race in the United States.
From 1963, the brand began production in the automobile and produced motor cars of motorcycles such as the S360 and S600.
Honda will be the first manufacturer in the world to mass-market a turbocharged motorcycle, the 500 CX Turbo in 1982.
The current CEO is Takahiro Hachig, who succeeded Takanobu Ito in June 2015.
In October 2019, Hitachi merged its Hitachi Automotive Systems subsidiary with Keihin, Showa Corporation and Nissin Kogyo, three companies owned at least in part by Honda.