Category: Honda

Madness will catch your eye in the Honda City

The Honda City is a compact car which has been produced by the Japanese manufacturer Honda since 1981.

Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in 1976.

Complete Madness is the first greatest hits album by ska/pop group Madness. It was released in 1982 and included Madness’ biggest hits from their first three studio albums and the stand-alone singles. An accompanying video cassette was also released, containing all thirteen of the group’s music videos up to that point (the twelve UK singles plus “Bed and Breakfast Man”, which was a single in Canada), with specially filmed introductions to each video; together with the car commercials they’d done for Honda in Japan.

The Greatest Motorcycle Ever is the Honda Cub

The Honda Super Cub is a Honda underbone motorcycle with a four stroke single cylinder engine ranging in displacement from 49 to 109 cc (3.0 to 6.7 cu in). In continuous manufacture since 1958 with production surpassing 60 million in 2008, and 87 million in 2014, the Super Cub is the most produced motor vehicle* in history.

Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Japan and has been since it started production in 1955.

In June 1963 in US media, Honda began the 12-year-long advertising campaign “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”, created by Grey Advertising. Grey had bought the idea from a UCLA undergraduate student, who had created the concept for a class assignment. The event marked the beginning of the decline of domestic and British motorcycle brands in the US market, and the rise of Honda and the other Japanese companies.

Honda’s First Production Automobile, The 30 hp Honda T360

The T360 was a pickup truck from Honda. Introduced in June 1963, it was Honda’s first production automobile, beating the S500 Sports by four months. The T360 used a 356 cc AK250E series DOHC inline-four engine also found in the Honda S360 roadster prototype, with which it also shared the chassis. The mid-mounted unit propelled the truck to a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph). The engine generated 30 hp (22 kW) at 8,500 rpm, reflecting Honda’s motorcycle heritage.

Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft and power generators, amongst others.

Kei car, K-car, or kei jidōsha (軽自動車, lit. “light automobile”) (pronounced [keːdÊ‘idoːɕa]), is a Japanese category of small vehicles, including passenger cars (kei cars or “kei class cars”), microvans, and pickup trucks (“kei trucks” or “kei class trucks”). They are designed to comply with Japanese government tax and insurance regulations, and in most rural areas are exempted from the requirement to certify that adequate parking is available for the vehicle.