Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hirotoshi Honda (本田 博俊, Honda Hirotoshi, born 11 April 1942 in Hamamatsu, Japan) is a Japanese business magnate, engineer and the founder of Mugen Motorsports. He is the son of Soichiro Honda , founder of the Honda Motor Company.
CR-Z. Super GT 2014 Rd.6 Suzuka 1000km: Yuhki Nakayama (Team Mugen) M-TEC Company, Ltd., doing business as Mugen Motorsports (無限), is a Japanese company formed in 1973 by Hirotoshi Honda, the son of Honda Motor Company founder Soichiro Honda, and Masao Kimura. [1]
His son, Hirotoshi Honda, was the founder and former CEO of Mugen Motorsports, a tuner for Honda vehicles who also created original racing vehicles. [ 16 ] ASME established the Soichiro Honda Medal in recognition of Mr. Honda's achievements in 1982; this medal recognizes outstanding achievement or significant engineering contributions in the ...
Takeo Fujisawa (藤沢 武夫, Fujisawa Takeo, November 10, 1910 – December 30, 1988) was a Japanese businessman who co-founded Honda Motor Co., Ltd. alongside Soichiro Honda. Fujisawa oversaw the financial side of the company while Honda handled the engineering and product development.
The Honda City Turbo was a hot hatch produced between September 1982 and 1986. For a long time, the City Turbo was one of the few non-kei car Hondas to be equipped with a turbocharged engine. The City Turbo was the brainchild of Hirotoshi Honda, son of Honda founder Soichiro Honda as well as founder and owner of Mugen.
Soichiro Honda wanted a red car, but at the time in Japan, that was a crime. Here's the story about how he prevailed.
Honda stated that his forename was a combination derived from three words: "'I' stands for inoshishi, the boar, the astrological symbol of my birth year. shi stands for the number four, the fourth son. And ro indicates a boy’s name. Literally, it means the fourth son, born in the year of the boar."
Sōichirō, Soichiro, Souichirou or Sohichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Soichiro Fujitaka (藤髙 宗一郎, born 1991), Japanese basketball player; Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, 1906 – 1991), founder of Honda Motor Company; Sōichirō Hoshi (保志 総一朗, born 1972), Japanese voice actor