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28 unusual facts about Honda


2010 Chinese labour unrest

Among the incidents were a string of employee suicides at Taiwan-owned electronics manufacturer Foxconn and strike actions at Honda factories in Guangdong province, both of which resulted in wage increases.

Alain Chevallier

Chevallier would move up to the premier 500cc class in 1984, building a race bike using Honda's NS500 engine.

Benjamin Logan Local School District

The school district also partners with local colleges and the Honda corporation to provide teacher exchange opportunities at the middle and high school level and in-school courses in the Japanese language.

Blair Morgan

Morgan won the four-stroke class at the US Open of Supercross that fall, the first win for the Honda CRF450R.

Brian Joicey

After retiring Brian opened "Brian Joicey Motors" a second hand car dealership on Middlewood Road, just half a mile from the Sheffield Wednesday ground and now works as a car salesman for a Honda franchise in the south of Sheffield.

Colin Meads

He is a frequent public speaker at events, and still appears in a number of television spots, endorsing Honda ATVs, Bob Charles' Deer Velvet, lifejacket safety awareness, Provincial Finance and Mastercard.

Daniel Junas

Junas has also dabbled in modeling, landing campaigns for Ford, Honda and Kenvelo.

Gary Pierce

A career in the automobile business followed his teaching experience, which culminated as a Honda and Nissan new car dealer in Yuma, Arizona.

India–Japan relations

Japanese companies, such as Sony, Toyota, and Honda, have manufacturing facilities in India, and with the growth of the Indian economy, India is a big market for Japanese firms.

Issam Makhoul

On 24 October 2003, Makhoul and his wife were preparing to leave their home in central Haifa; Makhoul took his Knesset-supplied Ford, and his wife took their personal Honda, Makhoul's primary transportation prior to Knesset service.

Kyle Kaplan

He played Greg Grunberg's nephew in NBC's Grand Union sitcom pilot in 2005 and has appeared in several national commercials, including Wendy's restaurants, Yahoo!, Cingular Wireless, Simon Malls, Dairy Queen, and most recently, Honda.

Lahti Institute of Design

The school has during its history educated many professionals in key positions around the world in such companies as Honda, Toyota, Apple, Marimekko, Nokia and H&M.

Michael Rudroff

Rudroff, riding a Honda bike, appeared in two Grand Prix in 1987, the West Germany Grand Prix and the Austrian Grand Prix where he qualified in positions 38 and 26 but did not compete in the final race.

Michelle Belegrin

At the start of her career, Belegrin did several commercials for Honda, Panasonic, and Bally's Total Fitness.

Mickey Factz

Factz appeared in a Honda commercial later that year as a spokesman for the Accord.

Nanhai District

In May 2010, 2,000 workers at a Honda transmission plant went on strike in the Nanhai district.The trigger was a rise of the legal local minimum wage from $123 to $147, announced by the city government May 1 in response to rapidly rising costs of living.

Nguyễn Thái

He founded IBA Ltd., a Honda-exclusive agency for Vietnam, which broke the monopoly of motorcycle importation to introduce the first million Honda motorcycles into Vietnam, giving Honda its predominant share of the motorcycle market in Vietnam.

Numeer Nabi

honda Main Guy / Actor & Model Hondamotors

Ohio State Route 708

OH 708 begins at its junction with OH 235 in Washington Township, at the northwestern corner of the Russells Point Honda manufacturing plant.

Pepe Cáceres

Born in Honda, Tolima, Colombia, he is often regarded as one of the finest bullfighters ever and the best-known bullfighter Colombia has ever produced.

Pit Beirer

Beirer was one of the top competitors in the FIM 250cc World Championships riding for Honda.

Premier Padmini

The Padmini was never able to compete with the more modern, value-for-money and fuel-efficient cars manufactured by Ford, GM, Daewoo, Honda and Hyundai.

Roger De Coster

After his racing career, De Coster moved to the U.S. and remained involved in the sport, becoming the motocross team manager for Honda and Suzuki.

Swepsonville, North Carolina

The Honda Motor Company manufactures general purpose engines, walk-behind lawn mowers, snow blowers, string trimmers, water pumps, and tillers in Swepsonville.

Tolichowki

Honda scooters has opened a sales and service center to cater to the growing demand of new generation 2 wheelers in the area.

Triumph Bonneville

Although its engine was later enlarged to 750 cc, in the late 1970s and early 1980s sales abroad greatly suffered in competition with more modern Japanese motorbikes from Honda and other manufacturers.

Triumph Tiger Daytona

Derived from Edward Turner's original twin cylinder design and a development of the Triumph Tiger, the 'Daytona' sacrificed low-speed tractability for a pronounced power step at 3,500 rpm that helped it to compete with the advanced designs from Japanese manufacturers like Honda.

Unipart

Based on the companies learning from Honda and study into the Toyota Production System, it is the name the company has given to its methodology.


1988 Canadian Grand Prix

Both Williams drivers were suffering from continuing problems with the FW12's reactive suspension leaving Mansell and Riccardo Patrese in 9th and 11th respectively with Mansell, 3.2 seconds slower than Senna's pole time and 0.8 slower than his own 1986 pole time set in the Williams-Honda.

1996 Isle of Man TT

This was the year where Phillip McCallen of Honda achieved 4 wins in a week – a record not beaten until 2010.

1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The dominant reign of Honda's Mick Doohan came to an end with serious injuries suffered in practice for the Spanish Grand Prix.

2007 Formula One espionage controversy

Honda Racing F1 released a statement confirming Honda team principal Nick Fry met with Stepney and Coughlan in June 2007 regarding "job opportunities", but that no confidential information had been offered or received.

Acura Legend

The Rover Company had a long established reputation as a luxury car in the United Kingdom and Europe, demonstrated with the Rover P6, and Honda wanted to introduce a luxury car for both domestic Japanese and the United States markets.

Adrián Fernández

Despite taking 3 wins and 4th overall in the 2004 IRL, he was unable to secure funding to race in 2005 - Delphi was driver Scott Sharp's personal sponsor while engine suppliers Honda insisted on Japanese driver Kosuke Matsuura in the second car.

American Honda Motor Company

In 1960, the first full year of operations, American Honda sold fewer than 2,000 motorcycles through three product lines: the Dream, Benly and Honda 50 (Super Cub).

Carcannon

Carcannon sells its services to Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Audi, Nissan, Infiniti, Acura, Honda, and the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

Celebration of Light

The Honda Celebration of Light (formerly known as Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire) is an annual musical fireworks competition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Cindy Daws

In college soccer with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Daws scored a record 61 goals and won the Hermann Trophy and Honda-Broderick Cup.

Del sol

Honda CR-X del Sol, A two seat, targa top convertible manufactured by Honda in the 1990s.

FCX

Honda FCX, a family of hydrogen fuel cell automobiles from Honda

Federal University of Campina Grande

Multinational companies like Honda, Motorola, Coca-cola and Alumar, recruite new graduates every six months for their companies in Brazil.

German Formula Three Championship

Despite the fact that F3 is still an open formula for which any chassis builder or engine tuner can supply a product provided that it meets the technical regulations, most championships have just one de facto choice of chassis supplier – usually Dallara – and two or three popular engine suppliers – usually Mugen-Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Spiess-Opel, or TOM's-Toyota.

Hiroki Ono

For the 2012 season Ono switched to the Asia Dream Cup, a one-make series in which every rider rides a Honda CBR250R provided by Honda.

Honda C engine

This engine has various upgrades and modifications by Mugen and is the first turbo-charged Honda engine used in the series (prior to 2003, the GT-spec NSXs used a highly advanced, naturally aspirated variant of the C32B engine).

Honda CB900C

Full Hondaline touring equipment (Fairing, Lower Leg Fairings, Saddlebags and Trunk were available from the Honda dealer to make the CB900C a complete Touring Bike.

Honda FR-V

The Honda FR-V, also known as the Honda Edix in Japan, is a compact multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) produced by the Japanese manufacturer Honda from 2004 to 2009, and marketed until 2011.

Honda S2000

The AP1 was manufactured up to 2003 at Honda's Takanezawa plant, alongside the Honda NSX and Honda Insight hybrid.

Ilmor

In 2005, Mario Illien concluded a deal to purchase the Special Projects part of the company in partnership with Roger Penske, which had been contracted to supply Honda with IndyCar engines between 2003 and 2005.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum

2005 Panoz/Honda driven by Danica Patrick, the first female driver to lead a lap during the Indianapolis 500

International Solar Electric Technology

Members helped found or worked in many of the more well known CIGS companies, such as Nanosolar, Solopower, Showa, and Honda Soltec.

Jenny Cho

The following year, she was cast for a Honda Accord television commercial, filmed in Barstow, California in addition to Honda's Print Ad, filmed on set in Los Angeles.

Jonah Street

Typically known for riding Honda motorcycles in the Baja 500 during his early wins and KTM motorcycles during his prior entries in the Dakar Rally, it was announced that Street will be teaming with GYTR (Genuine Yamaha Technology Racing) and would be riding a rally-prepared Yamaha WR450F in the 2011 Dakar Rally.

Jonathan Rea

In September 2007 he signed a three year progressive deal with Ten Kate Honda to ride in the Supersport World Championship for the 2008 season, and the Superbike World Championship for the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

Lone Pigeon

The 'Honda Hedge' album, which was available only by mailorder, contains early versions of several of the songs later to appear on The Aliens' 'Astronomy for Dogs' (see below), including "Robotman", "Tomorrow", "Only Waiting" and "Honest Again".

Marco Melandri

Melandri finished on the podium at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Le Mans – at this point he and works rider Dani Pedrosa were the only Honda riders with multiple podiums.

Miyuki Kanbe

According to Masaki Honda, president of the Rouge talent agency, Kanbe died in the presence of loved ones, and appeared to be at peace.

Motorcycle Safety Foundation

The Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) is a United States national, not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, and sponsored by the U.S. manufacturers and distributors of BMW, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, KTM, Piaggio/Vespa, Suzuki, Triumph, Victory and Yamaha motorcycles.

Mugen Motorsports

Mugen Motorsports (M-TEC Co., Ltd) (無限) is a Japanese company formed in 1973 by Hirotoshi Honda, the son of Honda Motor Company founder Soichiro Honda, and Masao Kimura.

Natsumi Tsujimoto

She keeps a mini-moped, a Honda Motocompo (JR-2) in Miyuki's Honda Today squad car and uses it when a flanking strategy is required.

Rad Racer

At the car selection screen, the player can pick one of two cars: a Ferrari 328 or an F1 racing machine, similar in appearance to the 1987 Camel-sponsored Honda/Lotus 99T Formula One car.

Saab XWD

The ability to transfer torque laterally between the rear wheels is similar to Mitsubishi's Super Active Yaw Control or Honda/Acura's Super Handling-All Wheel Drive.

Shriram Iyer

Shriram has also composed and sung title tracks for serials namely SHABAASH INDIA for which he has won the RAPA AWARD, Titan Antakshari, HERO HONDA Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, L'il Champs and Rock-N-Roll Family for ZEE TV and also Zinda dil for Zee NEXT.

Soichiro Honda

ASME established the Soichiro Honda Medal in recognition of Mr. Honda's achievements in 1982; this medal recognizes outstanding achievement or significant engineering contributions in the field of personal transportation.

Spoon Sports

The racing versions of the 2001 S2000 and 2003 Honda Fit models (both in Spoon's then-current blue-and-yellow livery) were featured in Gran Turismo 4.

Steve Plater

Plater spent 2009 with the HM Plant Honda team in Supersport, winning the title ahead of Australian Billy McConnell at the final round.

Tamika Huston

The investigation’s biggest break came when the Spartanburg Public Safety Department discovered that a key found in the Honda had been matched to an apartment unit located at the Fremont School Apartment complex and blood evidence found in that Spartanburg apartment matched Tamika Huston’s DNA.

Thomas van Leeuwen

He races in the ONK Dutch Moto3-125 Championship for RacingTeam van Leeuwen aboard a Bakker Honda.

Tom Tom Magazine

Tom Toms panels have included prominent figures and celebrities including Yuka Honda, Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Shirley Braha, creator of the television show New York Noise, Marisa Meltzer author of "How Sassy Changed My Life", and Emily Rems of Bust Magazine.

Uberdata

Uberdata (also known as Überdata or Uber data) is a ROM editing software designed specifically for On Board Diagnostics (OBD) Honda Engine control units.

UCLA Kyodo Taiko

Influenced by San Jose Taiko, Mark Honda founded Kyodo Taiko in 1990 under the Nikkei Student Union at UCLA.

Vehicular communication systems

Car manufacturers and communication corporations are also investing in vehicular communications; among them are Kapsch, General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, Siemens, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Mark IV.

VTAC

A slang term for VTEC, a variable valve timing system used in Honda engines