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Honda
Motor Company is one of the leading automobile
manufacturers in the world. Honda
has its automobile facilities all around the world with
its headquarters based in Tokyo.
The Honda Corporation
is named after its founder Soichiro Honda. He founded
the Honda Motor
Company in 1948.
Later, in the '60s and '70s, Honda began
producing its first automobiles and trucks in the US.
Today Honda remains one of the leading names in automobile
industry.
After expanding to automobile production, Honda once
more set its sights on the highest goal--that of Grand
Prix auto racing--and soon achieved success within that
stratospheric level of competition. In 1966, Honda-powered
cars won the Formula 1 and Formula 2 GP championships,
and Honda notched more race wins and other
notable achievements before leaving the sport of auto racing
to focus on the production of consumer automobiles. Following
a 10-year hiatus, Honda entered the F1
area once again in the 1980s, and by 1992 Honda had amassed
six Constructor's Championships, five driver's titles and
71 Grand Prix victories--an amazing achievement.
Perhaps most significantly of all, in 1989 founder Soichiro Honda became
the first Asian to be inducted into the U.S. Automotive
Hall of Fame—a crowning achievement for the legacy
he created with his life’s work in little more than
40 years.
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