Honda was founded by Soichiro Honda, a mechanic who managed to develop his own design for piston rings back in 1938. At first he tried to sell the design to Toyota but they declined, which ...

However, it's not as well known that the Honda Motor Company's first original product was a motorcycle. Company founder Soichiro Honda recognized a need for reliable and cheap transportation in ...

So it may come as surprise to hear that when Soichiro Honda chose a bright and cheery red for the company's prototype S360, there was a problem. Red cars were illegal in Japan. According to ...

Seventy years ago, a certain Soichiro Honda arrived in the paddock at the ... I was only 12 years old in 1959 but I can still remember those pictures from the TT races. Not the bikes of riders ...

Since Soichiro Honda founded the company that carries his name in 1948, Honda has cranked out reliable econoboxes like the Accord and Civic, and spawned the luxury auto brand, Acura. Honda made ...

Honda did not invent variable valve timing or variable valve lift. In fact, Cadillac had a driver-operated variable valve timing system in production in 1903, three years before Soichiro Honda was ...