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    All about Honda: Innovative Car Manufacturer
    All about Honda: Innovative Car Manufacturer
    All about Honda: Innovative Car Manufacturer
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    All about Honda: Innovative Car Manufacturer

    By Danny Nolan

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    Honda is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 8, 2014
    ISBN9781304940964
    All about Honda: Innovative Car Manufacturer

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      All about Honda - Danny Nolan

      All About Honda: Innovative Car Manufacturer

      © 2014 by Danny Nolan

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      Joy of Manufacturing

      Soichiro Honda was born in Komyo Village (now Tenryu City), Iwata County, Shizuoka Prefecture, as the eldest son of Gihei Honda and his wife Mika. Gihei was a skilled and honest blacksmith and Mika an accomplished weaver. The family was poor but Soichiro’s upbringing was happy, even though his parents were insistent about the need for basic discipline. It was thanks to the thorough education he received from his father that Mr. Honda, despite his freewheeling, irrepressible personality, hated nothing more than inconveniencing others and was always punctual about keeping appointments. He also inherited from his father his inborn manual dexterity and his curiosity about machines.

      After a while Gihei opened a bicycle shop. Bicycles were at last starting to become really popular in Japan and when people asked Gihei to repair their machines, he sensed a business opportunity. As well as working as a blacksmith he put his natural skills and willingness to learn to good effect, repairing second-hand bicycles and re-selling them at competitive prices. From this moment his business began to be seen as the best bicycle store in the neighborhood.

      When he was about to leave higher elementary school, Soichiro Honda saw an advertisement for Tokyo Art Shokai, an automobile servicing company, in a magazine called Bicycle World (Ringyo no sekai). The ad itself was not for bicycles but for Manufacture and Repair of Automobiles, Motorcycles and Gasoline Engines. Even as a toddler Honda had been thrilled by the first

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