Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot in 2000. This Civic model was Car of the Year in Japan for 1972, 19 and was placed third in the European Car of the Year awards in 1973. It was launched in Japan in 1972 and arrived in the UK market in 1973 with a three door version following the same year. The first Honda car to be sold in the UK was the Civic two door, four seater 1.2-litre Civic saloon. ![]() Honda exhibited its first automobiles, the S360, S500, and T360 at the 9th Tokyo Motor Show in October 1962. 1948 saw Honda introduce a 90cc version of the A-Type known as the “B-Type”. Soichiro Honda started Honda Motor Company in 1948, at the age of 41. Because it gave off a lot of smoke, it was known as the “Chimney”. Honda produced their first automotive vehicle in November 1947 the 1/2 horsepower A-Type Honda was manufactured and sold as a complete motorbike. ![]() Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda manufactures a broad product range encompassing cars, motorcycles, power products including marine, energy, lawn and garden, ATVs and aviation and was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986. Honda (UK) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honda (Japan) and today it is rated as one of the top 20 brands in the world. ![]() (Photographs of the Civic Type-R GT and the first generation Civic 1.2 by David others courtesy of Honda). Honda’s Civic Type-R GT outside its Swindon production home.ĭavid Miles (Miles Better News Agency) reports on Honda’s progress since the 1940s… and drives Civics built 42 years apart…
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