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Mr. Honda
and his brother
—the racing spirit |
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Honda's
first home in America:
4077 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles,
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He
dreamed of a better way of making piston rings,
founded a small company and began production.
He dreamed of giving people everywhere an economical
form of transportation, and began producing small
motorcycles, including one built in 1949 called
the D-Type Dream.
He dreamed of building high-performance motorcycles,
too, and of taking them racing. So his company built
bigger and faster machines, two-, four-, five- and
six-cylinder racebikes, and won the Isle of Man.
He dreamed of sharing his new motorcycles with the
world, and in 1959 he opened American Honda Motor
Company in California.
He dreamed of building his motorcycles in the countries
where they would be ridden, and opened Honda of
America Manufacturing in 1979.
He dreamed of changing the way people looked at
motorcycles, and gave us machines that were fun
to ride.
He dreamed of building touring bikes, and created
a whole new category with the first Gold Wing.®
But somewhere along the line, things began to change.
Because other people began to dream about Hondas,
too. They wrote songs about them, and started clubs
that grew to thousands of members.
Soichiro Honda's dreams changed the world of motorcycling,
and touched our lives. Fifty years after he founded
the company bearing his name, we take a moment to
look back at his dreams and his vision. And to say
thank you, Mr. Honda, for the dream.
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