Honda Motor Company Ltd. is a Japanese corporation known to manufacutre different types of motor vehicles. Honda is known as the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles. Since 2001, Honda won Nissan, in becomeing the second-largest automobile manufacturer in Japan. Currently, Honda is the second largest manufacturer. Toyota beats Honda just by a few thousands.
Honda has been one of the first automobile manufacturer, in Japan, to release a luxury brand. The Acura model (1986) is well known for it's
Powered by a small 356 cc straight-4 gasoline engine, the T360 mini pick-up truck was the companies first production automobile.
- 1948-1973 — Soichiro Honda
- 1973-1983 — Kiyoshi Kawashima
- 1990-1998 — Nobuhiko Kawamoto
- 1998-2004 — Hiroyuki Yoshino
- 2009-present — Takanobu Ito
Headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, Honda is the largest engine-maker plant in the entire world. Honda produces more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year, far more than the rival companies. It is also the sixth largest automobile manufacturer in the world. In the year 2008, Honda beat Chryslers position as the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States.
elegant interior as well as it's strong driving force. Honda also manufactures plenty of other household and powerful engines. Some of their products include watercraft engines and power generators, amongst others. Recenlty, Honda has been involved in aerospace technology creating Aero engines. With in their Aero Engines division, Honda came out with their first model: the GE Honda Aero Engines. In 2004. Their second Aero Engine, the Honda HA-420 HondaJet, is scheduled to be released in 2011.