The Honda Car Company and Its Founder

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The Honda Car Company and Its Founder

The Honda car company was started by a creative, hardworking, industrious man

who had the ability to see what people wanted almost before that knew they

wanted it. This was continued throughout the history of Honda, and had served to

make Honda one of the most respected marquis today.

Soichiro Honda was born on November seventeenth 1906, and he died on

August fifth 1991. In between these dates, he built and raced many cars and

motorcycles, accumulated over 100 patents, and created a car company that would

cause the American and European auto manufacturers to rethink the way that they

produced and marketed their product (britannica.com).

Things did not start out big for Soichiro Honda. He got his first job at a

Tokyo car repair shop at the age of 15. He eventually forged a strong relationship

with the shop’s owner. The owner not only taught Honda how to build and fix cars,

but also instilled in him a great interest in racing. Honda was to become a lifelong

fan of racing, although racing was not always kind to him. For example, in July

1936, he was leading a race with a record breaking speed of 75 mph, and he got

into a tangle with another car. Honda was pitched from the car; In a terrible

accident his shoulder was dislocated and both of his hands broken. Although this

ended Honda’s racing career, he had something else up his sleeve (History of

Honda).

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This was always a characteristic of Honda. Even though he suffered

crushing blow after crushing blow, he always had another plan, not just something

to bail him out, but a great idea that would become his next success. The first

example of this was the great crash that he suffered. Most ...

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...ck into the economy.

Emotionally because he gave the war-torn Japanese people a cheap, efficient mode

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of transportation that was all their own.

Honda’s cars had a huge effect in the U.S., where they forced American car

companies to clean up their act and produce a reliable, efficient product.

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