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unusual facts about Honda, Tolima


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.


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.

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.

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.

Del sol

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

Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport

On June 8, 1924 while traveling in the Junkers F.13 "Tolima" together with other executives of the company, he died as a result of one of the first plane crashes in the country.

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.

Henry Rojas

Henry Andres Rojas Delgado (born July 27, 1987 in Ibagué, Tolima) is a football striker from Colombia that plays for Deportes Tolima.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mariquita

Mariquita, Tolima, a municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia.

Mariquita Airport, an airport serving Mariquita, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia.

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.

Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department.

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.

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.

Risaralda Department

Risaralda department with an area of 365,300 ha, is located in the central sector of the central Andean region west of the country between two major poles of economic development (department of Antioquia in northern and southern Cauca Valley, extending between the central and western Cordillera), which slopes down toward the Río Cauca, also borders the departments of Caldas in the north-east, east Tolima, Quindio Chocó south and west.

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.

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.

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.

Tolichowki

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

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


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