2019 HONDA C125 SUPER CUB
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The motorcycle that
arguably started it all
for the Honda Motor
Company, the Super
Cub, is back! Everything
old is new again
P
icture this: the year is 1956. Two Japanese busi-
nessmen return from Europe after a mission to
settle on a destination for the first offshore sub-
sidiary of the still very young Honda Motor Company.
Having started business only eight years prior on
September 24, 1948, Soichiro Honda and his manag-
ing director, Takeo Fujisawa, are full of the energy that
fuels young start-ups. As such, they decide to take
on what is undoubtedly a huge risk. They forgo Eu-
rope—then the undisputed home of the international
motorcycle industry—in favor of the United States as the
location of the first Honda distributor outside of Japan.
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DREW RUIZ
