Honda was started by Soichiro Honda, a racer, businessman, and manufacturer of high quality motorcycles and vehicles. He started out producing piston rings, and he wanted to provide the world with a more economical mode of transportation. This was how the company started out producing their famous motorcycles, including the larger racing bikes that people have come to love. Even today, Honda is still the worldﾕs largest motorcycle manufacturer.
The sales of the motorcycles went so well that Honda decided to try manufacturing his own motors, and in 1947 he was successful. The company went on to dominate the motorcycle market for the next forty years, and in 1986 they introduced the first luxury car ever to come out of Japan. They are currently the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States and the second largest in Japan only to Toyota with Nissan coming in third. They are also the owners of the Acura car brand.
The HONDA Accord is one of the most popular cards developed by Honda as well as the 2006 Ridgeline, which re-introduced the uni-body truck to the world. The facility in the United States currently went through a shuffling of their product production due to the high demand of small cars as compared to Hondaﾕs SUVs, minivans, and light trucks.