YOUFOR mE DREAM, MR. HONDA.
Soichiro Honda was a
racer, a bu ine man,
a manufacturer. But most of all
he was a dreamer. He dreamed
of a better way of making
piston ring , founded a small
com pan y, and began
production. H e
dreamed of
giving people
everywhere an
economical form
of transportation,
and began producinz mall
motorcvcles ,
.
th e first one built
in 1949 called
the D-'I~'Pe
Drea m .
He
dreamed of
building high-performance
motorcycles too, and of taking
them racing..So his company
built bigger and faster
But omewhere a long the
line, things began to change.
Beca u e other people began to
dream about Hondas, too.
Motor Company in California.
He dreamed of building
his motorcycles in the countries
.
171c D-Type Dream 0/1949.
m achines, two-, four-, five and ix- cylinder ra cebike ,
and won th e Isle of Man.
H e dreamed of sharing
his n ew m otorcycl es with
the ~Yorld, an d in 1959 he
opened Am erican H onda
www.hondamotorcycle.com
wh ere th ey would be ridden,
and opened Honda of America
Manufacturing in 1979.
He dreamed of changing the
way people looked at motorcycle , and he gave us m~chines .
that were fun to ridc.
He dreamed
of building
tourinz
e
bik es, and
created a
whole new
cateaory
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with the
first Cold
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Wing~
tires Oil .
TIlCYwrote ongs about them,
and started clubs that grew to
th ou ands of member .
Soichiro Honda' dream
changed th e world of m otorcycling, and tou ched OlIT lives.
Fifty year after he foun ded
the company bearing his name,
we take a moment to look
back at hi s dreams and hi
vi ion . And to say than k you ,
Mr. Honda, for the dream.
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