Honda is independent. It owns itself.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was founded on 24 September 1948 in Itaya-machi, Hamamatsu, with capital of one million yen and 34 employees.
Where it sits
Nowhere. There is no level above this one.
Honda
78 years, one owner
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1948 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was founded on 24 September 1948 in Itaya-machi, Hamamatsu, with capital of one million yen and 34 employees. It took over the bicycle-engine business Soichiro Honda had run since 1946 as the unincorporated Honda Technical Research Institute, and built its first complete motorcycle, the Dream D-Type, the following August.
Honda
2 marques
Nothing on Honda's stand was bought: the premium badge is one it invented for American showrooms, and the motorcycles, generators and business jets alongside the cars all carry the Honda name itself. Only in China does it build cars through joint ventures with local partners.