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	Honda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Honda finally established a foothold in the American market in 1972 with the introduction of the Civic—larger than their previous models, but still small compared to the typical American car—just as the 1970s energy crisis was impacting worldwide economies.
		Honda engineered the oval cylinders in an effort to provide the valve area of an 8 cylinder engine, hoping their four-stroke bike would be able to compete against the now dominant two-stroke racers.
		Honda strives to be a leader in the industry and boasts a number of firsts in many categories, including first motorcycle equipped with an airbag, as well as the first pick-up truck with independent rear suspension (2006 Ridgeline).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honda (1935 words)

	Soichiro Honda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Honda's subsequent spirit of adventure and determination to explore the development of new technology had its roots in his childhood.
		Soichiro Honda's childhood days are full of examples of technical ingenuity, including using a bicycle pedal rubber to forge his family's seal on school reports that were less than promising.
		Honda was the first major manufacturer to understand that motorsport was the perfect crucible in which to develop not just superior machines, but superior engineers, and today every global player in the F1 game rotates its engineers through its motorsport programs.
	www.acurithonda.com /soichiro_honda.htm (1677 words)

	Motorcycle Hall of Fame: Soichiro Honda
		Soichiro Honda was described as a maverick in a nation of conformists.
		Soichiro seemed to have foreseen the future of Japan, which, twenty years later, was to become one of the world's leading economies.
		Soichiro Honda inspects plans for the construction of the new motorcycle plant in Marysville, Ohio.
	www.motorcyclemuseum.org /halloffame/hofbiopage.asp?id=199 (1037 words)

	Laurent Buset - Official Web Site -
		Soichiro Honda, the founder of one of the world's mightiest motor corporations, was born in Hamamatsu, in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, in 1906.
		As a teenager, Soichiro Honda was apprenticed to a car repair shop in Tokyo, but business was slack as there were few cars in the city at that time.
		Honda tested his talents behind the wheel of a racing car, but an accident effectively ended his career as a competitive driver.
	www.core.ucl.ac.be:16080 /~buset/honda.html (1287 words)

	Honda Siel Cars India Ltd. :: Founders
		It was made popular by its founder, Soichiro Honda, who knew that his fledgling company had to out-think and out-perform its competitors every step of the way in order to survive.
		Honda's belief in the benefits of racing is sincere and unwavering.
		Typical of Honda, the project leader was not quite 30 years of age when the experimental aircraft was first unveiled in 1993.
	www.hondacarindia.com /about/founders.asp (506 words)

	SOICHIRO HONDA MOTORCYCLES AND CARS JAPAN \| DIRECTORY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS \| VEHICLE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY \| CONCEPT ...
		The Honda story is the story of one man, Soichiro Honda, and his unparalleled achievement of bringing motor cycles to the masses.
		Soichiro Honda was a mechanic, a racer, a businessman, and a manufacturer.
		In early 1958 Honda fitted an electric starter to the 250cc Dream and named it the C71 and, in 1959, the latest Benly an incredibly sophisticated 125cc OHC four-stroke twin, capable of 70mph was introduced as the C92.
	www.speedace.info /honda_cars.htm (1629 words)

	Honda History
		Honda's first motorcycle was born out of necessity in immediate post World War II Japan, where public transportation was desperately overcrowded and gasoline severely restricted.
		It was the forerunner of Honda's high-performance 125 and 250cc twins.
		The Honda's were the fastest 250s around, and the C72 with its improvements like 12-volt electric's and wet sump lubrication, successor of the C71, was capable of 80mph and could still get 66 miles per gallon.
	www.smokeriders.com /History/Honda_History/body_honda_history.html (1517 words)

	hondanews.com > Soichiro Honda
		Soichiro Honda's unconventional ways became the company's personality because he did not pursue the socially correct compromise path of consensus decision-making.
		From the beginning, Honda sought the challenge of racing, and when his motorcycles won their first Grand Prix road racing title in 1961, the new company's engineering power was demonstrated to the world.
		Honda's unconventional personality was an essential adaptation to an era of unpredictable, accelerating change, enabling the company, like the man, to make room for itself among less agile giants, to take and hold its place in history as a pioneer.
	www.hondanews.com /CatID7624?mid=2003090256946&mime=asc (1044 words)

	Honda, Soichiro on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Honda founded a motorcycle company in the 1940s and began producing cars in the 1950s.
		Honda Foundation to Launch YES Award Grant Program for Asian University Students - Initially in Vietnam starting in April.
		Honda founder's son held in tax evasion case; Prosecutors allege his firm reported bogus expenses.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hondas1oic.asp (219 words)

	Classic Motors: Tradition - Honda History
		Honda’s founder Soichiro Honda, established the Honda Motor Company in 1948 and since then it has continued to be one of the world’s leading edge companies, selling nearly 11 million products worldwide including motorcycles, power equipment, ATV’s, generators, marine engines and of course, automobiles.
		Honda is no stranger to historical firsts and that is due to the much-engendered Honda philosophy of producing top ranked products with present-day technological innovations.
		Soichiro Honda becomes first Asian to be inducted into U.S. Automotive Hall of Fame.
	www.classicmotorstt.net /tradition.shtml (324 words)

	Motorcycle.Com: --[ 2004 Honda Redbook: History & Innovation ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Honda automobiles and motorcycles have led the way in meeting EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) emissions standards, and Honda has also been a multi-time winner in the World Solar Challenge, the world's premier competition for solar-powered vehicles.
		Honda introduced design for manufacturing, by which the speed and economy with which parts can be made and assembled is considered and provided for early in the design process.
		Honda's CB750 was the top of the scale, the pinnacle of the ladder of motorcycle models the firm had so carefully constructed throughout the 1960s.
	www.motorcycle.com /mo/mchonda/03_04Redbook/History_Innovation (14659 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Historical > Soichiro Honda: The man behind a legend
		Racing is in its blood, but that's not surprising, given the early life of the unusual man who founded an empire: Soichiro Honda.
		Soichiro Honda was born in Yamahigashi on November 17 1906.
		And Honda was sufficiently aware of his own managerial shortcomings.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ftdt017.html (1593 words)

	metacool: Soichiro Honda on Enjoyment and Innovation
		That Honda the company is a champion innovator is due in no small part to the culture created by Honda the founder.
		Honda is his focus on the concept of enjoyment.
		Honda says "yes": If you're at Honda, then, the central task of leadership is about creating work that leads to enjoyment, and innovation will follow.
	metacool.typepad.com /metacool/2004/10/honda_on_cultur.html (602 words)

	Bob Logue Motorsports Honda Museum
		Honda excelled in developing new, innovative products, while Fujisawa took on the task of creating an organizational structure in which every human resource and skill would be utilized to the fullest extent.
		He communicated to Soichiro Honda that it would be important to concentrate on building a better model, preferably a four-stroke engine or risk failure.
		Honda has become the largest producer of motorcycles and engines in the world and is the seventh largest carmaker.
	www.hondamuseum.com (1019 words)

	ECD Chairman Bob Stempel Honored by ASME International With the Society's Soichiro Honda Medal
		He was recognized for his technical and business leadership in the automobile industry and his major role in the development of the catalytic converter, high-energy nickel metal hydride battery and other vehicle technologies ensuring environmental safety and performance.
		The Soichiro Honda Medal, established in 1983, recognizes an individual for an outstanding achievement or a series of significant engineering contributions in developing improvements in the field of personal transportation.
		Honda developed many vehicle and engine firsts and established a culture of 'the Honda Way' making each change introduced in production an improvement.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-15-2001/0001616808&EDATE= (508 words)

	Soichiro Honda - by Sam Fiorani
		Honda addressed a group of new recruits, of which I was one, and he said 'Other companies may not consider you to be the cream of the crop but we believe in you.
		His attitude took Honda motorcycles from a disappointing finish in their first international race in 1954 to a manufacturer's team prize in the 1959 Isle of Man race in Honda's first year at that race.
		Soichiro Honda believed his products to be world class and informed the sales and marketing staff of this.
	www.autohistory.org /feature_7.html (1507 words)

	History - Honda Motors Company, Motorcycle History, Soichiro Honda, Honda Cars
		With Honda behind the wheel of the compnay, he managed to double the horsepower of the conventional four-stroke engine.
		Honda introduces the Acura CL, developed and produced in the United States, using U.S. and globally sourced parts.
		Honda wins the CART Manufacturer's Championship for the fourth time, and Gil de Ferran brings in his second win for the CART Driver's Championship, the sixth consecutive win for Honda.
	hondacars.by.ru /htm/history/honda.html (1004 words)

	Honda Soichiro -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		When Nobuhiko Kawamoto, president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., visited Soichiro Honda a few months before the legendary industrialist's death in 1991, he said to the old man, "You left behind lots of good things but also things that are not right for the present." Honda responded, "Times change.
		The maverick founder of the Honda Motor Company, Soichiro Honda built his enterprise into a global giant with a reputation for producing high-quality, dependable, and fuel-efficient motorcycles and automobiles.
		During his career Honda, a self-made man who held that a diploma was “worth less than a movie ticket,” demonstrated what he had...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9040920?tocId=9040920 (610 words)

	ATV History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In this two-part chronicle, we discuss Honda's introduction, involvement, and innovation in the all-terrain vehicle industry.
		Ironically, it was market strategy that at first drove ATV usage, but it was the owners who found and invented new and creative applications for ATVs, and helped shape their growth and design along the way.
		In the early stages, a Honda ST70 motorcycle gave up its 70cc four-stroke single-cylinder engine for the cause, along with assorted chassis parts.
	www.atving.com /editor/feature/atvhistory/hondahistory.htm (1058 words)

	The Story of Soichiro Honda (article) - the Business Start Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1938, Soichiro Honda was still in school, when he started a little workshop, developing the concept of the piston ring.
		With the contract in hand, Soichiro Honda needed to build a factory to supply Toyota, but building materials were in short supply.
		Honda succeeded because one man made a truly committed decision, acted upon it, and made adjustments on a continuous basis.
	www.bspage.com /1article/peo23.html (555 words)

	BW Online \| August 17, 2004 \| Soichiro Honda: Uniquely Driven
		Honda presumably knew of what he spoke when he insisted that Japanese companies were just as brutally competitive as their American counterparts.
		A newly focused and newly wedded Honda began working for a succession of mechanics in the mid-1930s, a period in which he focused largely on refining piston action to build a higher performance engine.
		So, although Soichiro Honda hadn't left his lifelong rivals in his rearview mirror, he had globalized the auto industry, ushered in a new era of fuel-efficient vehicles, and showed Detroit that it could never, ever get complacent again.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/aug2004/nf20040817_3267_db078.htm (1506 words)

	Honda Motorcycles
		He dreamed of sharing his new motorcycles with the world, and in 1959 he opened American Honda Motor Company in California.
		He dreamed of building his motorcycles in the countries where they would be ridden, and opened Honda of America Manufacturing in 1979.
		Soichiro Honda's dreams changed the world of motorcycling, and touched our lives.
	powersports.honda.com /the_story/heritage/mrhonda (229 words)

	Honda Racing
		Soichiro Honda's love of victory helped launch a small company into a racing giant.
		Honda made a promise to his family to never take the wheel of a racer again.
		Soichiro began to tackle racing from the development standpoint, producing some of the finest engines ever to race.
	racing.honda.com /about/heritage.aspx (176 words)

	Honda: An American Success Story
		Honda Motorcycles - RC's stadium success literally paled in comparison to his outdoor virtuosity, however, as #4...
		Honda Motorcycles - JULY 17 - American Honda presented a special customized 2005 Valkyrie Rune motorcycle to Disneyland as...
		Soichiro Honda - by Sam Fiorani - Shook, in his book Honda: An American Success Story, stated that Honda was a poor student in his school days.
	www.rollingfelony.com /car-books-reviewed/0133946282.html (309 words)

	U.S. News & World Report: Soichiro Honda. (obituary)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		SOICHIRO HONDA was 8 when he spotted a Model T Ford, America's bestselling automobile, rumbling through his hometown in central Japan.
		Honda, who died last week at 84, was emblematic of the generation of Japanese entrepreneurs who helped transform a war-ravaged nation into the envy of the industrialized world.
		The son of a flsmith and onetime car and motorcycle racer, Honda opened a firm that equipped...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:11119762&refid=holomed_1 (173 words)

	Honda CB77: Superhawk 305
		This site is devoted to the legendary Honda SuperHawk CB77 (1961 - 1967) and its impact on the world of Design, Technology, Philosophy and Motorcycles in General.
		The Vintage Honda Motorcycles featured here range from the production SuperHawks: the Dream 250 - CB72 (actually, 247cc) and the Dream 300 - CB77 (305cc), the hybrid and special configuration SuperHawk - the CP77, to the full-dress Police SuperHawk CYP77 and the factory racer - the CR71.
		From casual riding to full-scale restoration, the vintage Honda SuperHawks are a compelling force.
	www.honda305.com /frames/zen-hld1.htm (113 words)

	Soichiro Honda
		The step-through Honda Cub® was the first international success for the Honda Motor Company, and it was a model for all the successes that were to follow.
		Soichiro Honda understood that motorsport competition held the key to the company's future success.
		In 1961, Honda motorcycles won their first Grand Prix races and titles.
	www.auto-careers.org /soichiro_honda.htm (1078 words)

	Adverblog: Honda, The Impossible Dream
		It tells Soichiro Honda's life story symbolically...and it is utterly brilliant.
		Posted by: Grimgor at December 20, 2005 05:05 PM This has got to be the best ad i've seen in ages showing the life of Honda, it's in my favourites shame i can't find anywhere to download it.
		Posted by: nethost at December 31, 2005 11:47 AM its a nice ad and possesses the feel good factor that is probably the remit from the client brief.lovely entertainment.
	www.adverblog.com /archives/002220.htm (1192 words)

	Honda History - Auto and Motorcycle History, Soichiro Honda
		Honda History - Auto and Motorcycle History, Soichiro Honda
		In October 1946, Soichiro Honda established the Honda Technical Research Institute in Hamamatsu, Japan, to develop and produce small 2-cycle motorbike engines.
		Two years later, Honda Motor Company, Ltd. was born, and in 1959 Honda opened its first storefront in Los Angeles with six industrious employees.
	corporate.honda.com /america/history.aspx (80 words)

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