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Honda
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All motorcycle fans must have this Honda Metal Plate! Its vintage side will blend perfectly with your decoration thanks to its unique style.
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- Metal protected against corrosion , built to last .
- Very light and easy to install.
- Carefully packaged and placed in a shock-resistant package for safe transport .
- Size : 20 (W) × 30 (L) cm / 30 (W) × 40 (L) cm.
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Description of this Honda Metal Plate
Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 本田技研工業株式会社, Hepburn: Honda Giken Kōgyō KK, IPA: (About this soundlisten); /ˈhɒndə/) is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and power equipment, including Head office is located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching production of 400 million by the end of 2019, as well as the world's largest internal combustion engine manufacturer measured by volume, producing more than 14 million engines internal combustion every year. Honda became the second largest Japanese automaker in 2001. Honda was the world's eighth largest automaker in 2015.
Honda was the first Japanese automaker to launch a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986. In addition to its core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, watercraft and generators, as well as other products. Since 1986, Honda has been involved in research into artificial intelligence and robotics and launched its ASIMO robot in 2000. It has also ventured into aerospace with the creation of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the Honda HA- 420 HondaJet, production of which began in 2012. Honda has two joint ventures in China: Dongfeng Honda and Guangqi Honda.
In 2013, Honda invested approximately 5.7% (US$6.8 billion) of its revenues in research and development. Also in 2013, Honda became the first Japanese automaker to be a net exporter to the United States. , exporting 108,705 Honda and Acura models, while importing only 88,357.
Honda's history
Throughout his life, Honda founder Soichiro Honda was interested in automobiles. He worked as a mechanic at Art Shokai Garage, where he tuned cars and entered them in races. In 1937, with financing from his acquaintance Kato Shichirō, Honda founded Tōkai Seiki (Eastern Sea Precision Machine Company) to manufacture piston rings working in the Art Shokai garage. After initial failures, Tōkai Seiki won a contract to supply piston rings to Toyota, but lost the contract due to the poor quality of their products. After attending engineering school without graduating, and visiting factories around Japan to better understand Toyota's quality control processes known as "Five Whys", in 1941 Honda was able to mass produce piston rings acceptable to Toyota, using an automated process that could employ even unskilled workers in wartime.:16–19
Tōkai Seiki was placed under the control of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (called the Ministry of Munitions after 1943) at the start of World War II and Soichiro Honda was demoted from president to senior managing director after Toyota took a 40% stake in the company. Honda also aided the war effort by assisting other companies in automating the production of military aircraft propellers. The relationships Honda cultivated with personnel at Toyota, Nakajima Aircraft Company and the Imperial Japanese Navy would be pivotal in the postwar era. A US B-29 bomber attack destroyed Tōkai Seiki's Yamashita factory in 1944, and the Itawa factory collapsed on the January 13 1945 Mikawa earthquake. Soichiro Honda sold the salvageable remains of the He company to Toyota after the war for ¥450,000 and used the proceeds to found the Honda Technical Research Institute in October 1946.
With a staff of 12 men working on 16 m2 (170 sq ft) shack, they built and sold improvised motorized bicycles, using a power supply of 500 two-stroke 50 cc Tohatsu war surplus radio generator engines.:19 When the engines ran out, Honda began building their own copy of the Tohatsu engine, and supplying these to customers to attach to their bicycles. This was the Honda A-Type, nicknamed the Bata Bata for the sound the engine made. In 1949, the Honda Technical Research Institute was liquidated for ¥1,000,000, or approximately US$5,000 today; these funds were used to incorporate Honda Motor Co., Ltd.:21 At about the same time Honda hired engineer Kihachiro Kawashima, and Takeo Fujisawa who provided much-needed sales and marketing expertise to complement Soichiro Honda's technical trend.:21 The close partnership between Soichiro Honda and Fujisawa lasted until they stepped down together in October 1973.:21
The first complete motorcycle, with the chassis and engine made by Honda, was the 1949 D-Type, the first Honda to carry the Dream name. In 1961, Honda achieved its first Grand Prix victories and World Championships in 125cc and 250cc. Honda Motor Company grew in a short time to become the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles by 1964.
Honda's first production automobile was the T360 mini pickup truck, which went on sale in August 1963. Powered by a small 356-cc straight-4 gasoline engine, it was classified under the cheaper Kei Car tax bracket. The first production car from Honda was the S500 sports car, which followed the T360 into production in October 1963. Its chain-driven rear wheels indicated the origins of the Honda motorcycle.
Over the next few decades, Honda worked to expand its product line and expand its operations and exports to many countries around the world. In 1986, Honda introduced the successful Acura brand to the American market in an attempt to gain ground in the luxury vehicle market. 1991 saw the introduction of the Honda NSX supercar, the first all-aluminum unibody vehicle that incorporated a mid-engine V6 with variable valve timing.
CEO Tadashi Kume was replaced by Nobuhiko Kawamoto in 1990. Kawamoto was selected Shoichiro Irimajiri, who oversaw the successful establishment of Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. in Marysville, Ohio Irimajiri and Kawamoto shared a friendly rivalry within Honda ; due to health problems, Irimajiri would resign in 1992.
After the death of Soichiro Honda and the departure of Irimajiri, Honda quickly found itself overtaken in product development by other Japanese automakers and was blindsided by the truck and sport utility vehicle boom of the 1990s, all of this hurt the company's profitability. Japanese media reported in 1992 and 1993 that Honda was seriously risking an unwanted and hostile takeover of Mitsubishi Motors, which at the time was a larger automaker by volume and brimming with profits from its successful Pajero and Diamante models.
Kawamoto moved quickly to change Honda's corporate culture, rushing through market-driven product development that resulted in recreational vehicles such as the first generation Odyssey and the CR-V, and a refocusing away from some of the many sedans and coupes that were popular with the company's engineers but not with the buying public. The most shocking change for Honda came when Kawamoto ended the company's successful participation in Formula One after the 1992 season, citing costs in light of the threat of a Mitsubishi takeover as well as the desire to create a more environmentally friendly corporate image.
The Honda Aircraft Company established in 2006 as a wholly owned subsidiary to manufacture and sell the HondaJet family of aircraft. The first deliveries to customers began in December 2015.
On February 23, 2015, Honda announced that CEO and president Takanobu Ito would resign and be replaced by Takahiro Hachigo by June; additional retirements by senior managers and directors were expected.
In October 2019, Honda reportedly held talks with Hitachi to merge the two companies' auto parts businesses, creating a component supplier with nearly $17 billion in annual sales.
In January 2020, Honda announced that it would withdraw its employees working in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the global spread of the virus, Honda became the first major automaker with operations in the US to suspend production in its factories on March 23, 2020. It resumed automobile, engine and transmission production at its US plants on May 11, 2020.
Honda and General Motors announced in September 2020 a North American alliance that will begin in 2021. According to the Detroit Free Press, "the proposed alliance will include sharing a range of vehicles, which will be sold under each company's distinct brands , as well as cooperation in purchasing, research and development, and connected services."
