The founder of Honda is Soichiro Honda who had no formal education and
started his career as mechanic in garage in the age of 15 years old where he
worked for 6 years. After quitting this job he went back to Tenyru which was
his hometown where he started auto repair business as his own business in the
age of 22 years. He manufactured piston rings and started supplying it to
Toyota. Due to earthquake and US bombing, his plants at Yamashita and itawa
were destroyed and he later sold his company’s remaining part to Toyota. With
12 men operating in the industry, he founded Honda Technical Research Institute
in 1946. This was actually a foundation for Hero Motors.
The first Honda automobile produces in 1963 which was a pickup truck named as
the T369. S500 was the first car manufactured by Honda. Acura legend was one of
the reasons to enter in the market of luxury cars in US.
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