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Compact crossover SUV positioned below the CR-V. Sold in North America and China (by Dongfeng Honda) as the HR-V. Hybrid available. Kei vehicles: N-Box: 2011 2023 – Japan Super tall-height wagon kei car with rear sliding doors. Best-selling car in any category in Japan. N-One: 2012 2020 – Japan Retro-styled low-roof hatchback kei car with ...
Soichiro Honda. Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō, 17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. [1] In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. [4]
Honda is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Japan and has been since it started production in 1955. [13] At its peak in 1982, Honda manufactured almost three million motorcycles annually. By 2006, this figure had been reduced to around 550,000 but was still higher than its three domestic competitors.
Aircraft. HA-420 HondaJet. Honda MH02 (experimental aircraft) This article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names). Categories: Set index articles.
The Honda Insight (ホンダ・インサイト, Honda Insaito) is a hybrid electric vehicle that is manufactured and marketed by Honda. Its first generation was a two-door, two passenger liftback (1999–2006) [2] [3] and in its second generation was a four-door, five passenger liftback (2009–2014). In its third generation, it became a four ...
Crude ideas and designs of automobiles can be traced back to ancient and medieval times. [1] [2] In 1649, Hans Hautsch of Nuremberg built a clockwork-driven carriage. [1] [3] In 1672, a small-scale steam-powered vehicle was created; [4] the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769.
OCLC. 568052. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile is a non-fiction book by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, first published in 1965. Its central theme is that car manufacturers resisted the introduction of safety features (such as seat belts ), and that they were generally reluctant to spend money on improving ...
The first-generation Honda Civic is an automobile that was produced by Honda in Japan from July 1972 until 1979. It was their first genuine market success, eschewing the air-cooling and expensive engineering solutions of the slow-selling Honda 1300 and being larger than the minuscule N-series. [4]