Looking at several major Japanese automobile brands, such as Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Suzuki, I think Honda is the only one that can best represent the Japanese automobile industry!
Honda was first founded in 1946. In 1948, Shoichiro Honda named itself as "Honda Technology Research Industry Co., Ltd.", headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. From the name of Honda, it can be seen that Honda is a company that pays attention to technology research and development. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has a Holly Award, which is specially used to reward those who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mechanical engineering. So far, the award has been one * *. The other time was awarded to Japanese Tsuichiro Honda, the founder of Honda, in 198. Therefore, Honda was also called Henry Ford of Japan by the Japanese! It can be seen that these two people have made extraordinary contributions in the field of automobile machinery manufacturing!
Shoichiro Honda was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 196, and there was no storm or dragon and phoenix dance on the day of his birth. When Zong Ichiro was 16 years old, he couldn't study. When he reached junior high school in our country, he dropped out of school, packed his bags, left his parents and came to Tokyo to work. Like many children in China who didn't study, that year was 1922, the eleventh year of the Republic of China.
unlike Toyoda, the young Mr. Ichiro didn't have a diploma, background, platform and professional technical training. At that time, Mr. Ichiro was a diaosi, who didn't know all the Chinese characters, had no diploma, skills, background and platform, and was still a minor. However, Mr. Ichiro Honda's personality was tough and self-motivated, and he developed a strong interest in mechanical design from an early age and found it early. For example, after the earliest generation of 9, many people haven't found their hobbies, and they don't know what they like and what they want to do, which is a kind of sorrow for life and life.
The greatest happiness in the world is to turn hobbies into a survival skill. Because he is very interested in mechanical design, Tsuichiro Honda became an apprentice in a repair shop in Tokyo. This is not uncommon. Many successful people have different working experiences. At that time, Japan already had cars, so Tsuichiro started his apprenticeship, and he worked for six years in a blink of an eye. In 1928, Tsuichiro ended his working career. I don't want to work for others under the sponsor, and I want to go it alone. Therefore, Shoichiro Honda is a person with his own ideas and self-motivation. After quitting his job, Shoichiro Honda opened a repair shop on his own. Based on his six-year working experience, the repair shop is running well. This year, Shoichiro Honda was 22 years old, and I thought that I was still dating at school when I was 22 years old.
Time flies, and it's another six years in a blink of an eye. In 1934, Honda was 28 years old, and he was not willing to be the owner of a repair shop all his life. So in this year, Donghai Precision Machinery Company was established. This company mainly produces piston rings, and its biggest customer is Toyoda Ichiro of Gao Fushuai.
In 1937, when the Japanese devils entered our village, Toyoda's family began to build cars, so most of the piston rings made by Honda were sold to Toyota. This time, it was 11 years. Once again, Honda was not willing to just make piston rings for others to make wedding dresses. After making piston rings for several years, Honda simply packaged the company and sold it to Toyota in 1945, and obtained some funds.
after obtaining this part of the funds, Zong Ichiro started to build motorcycles. In 1946, Honda founded the Honda Institute of Technology, before the company was established, so why did he take a fancy to the motorcycle industry? At that time, just after World War II, Japan was beaten black and blue by Americans. Originally, the place was not big. Two atomic bombs directly bombed Meng. The economy plummeted and everything was in ruins. Many people had to go to the black market or the countryside to buy food at a high price. The traffic was not developed enough, and there were too many people who needed goods. Cars and trains were often overloaded, just like our Spring Festival travel rush every day. Cycling on rugged mountain roads is not only laborious, but also can't carry much food. When Tomichiro Honda saw this situation, he felt it, and immediately thought of many radio communicators left by the army after the war. He bought these things back at a low price, removed the small gasoline engine from them, and then got a kettle as a fuel tank and installed it on bicycles to make a new type of "mechanical bicycle", which immediately became a hot commodity in Tokyo, Japan.
At the beginning of motorcycle manufacturing, the Japanese government did not allow Tomichiro Honda to build motorcycles. At that time, there were almost hundreds of motorcycle manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The Japanese government thought that there were too many motorcycles, so it restricted Tomichiro Honda to build motorcycles. But what should I do if I don't talk about it? To participate in motorcycle races on behalf of Japan, if I can get a champion back, not only will my motorcycle become famous in the world, but the government will no longer restrict me from producing motorcycles, and it is estimated that I will be rewarded with a certificate or something. In order to convince the Japanese government, Zong Ichiro sent several young drivers and four motorcycles to participate in a TT race on the Isle of Man in Britain. After the first time, he had little experience and returned without success. One of Honda's most famous drivers died in the Isle of Man, England, and none of the four motorcycles ran the whole race. After returning to Japan, Zongyilang was very superior, which was completely different from the expected result. At that time, Zongyilang was regarded as a joke among his Japanese counterparts, but Zongyilang was Zongyilang. He was not Zongjiro, and he did not lose heart, did not give up, re-studied the design and went to participate in the race again. At that time, Zongyilang was a humiliation and lying down. In the second year, I went to the race again. This time, I went to six cars, cut six generals through five customs, cut through thorns and killed the quartet. In the end, Honda drivers swept the first six sides of the race. As a result, Honda motorcycles became famous, and the two guns started. Didn't the first gun start? Of course, the news soon spread back to Japan, and the Japanese government approved Honda to produce motorcycles!
In p>1948, after the age of no doubt, Zong Ichiro established Honda Technology Research Industry Co., Ltd. So now we can see that Honda's motorcycles can be deeply loved by the masses in the global market because Honda was a company that produced and researched motorcycles from the beginning.
after Honda produced motorcycles for more than ten years, in the 196s, after more than ten years of development, manufacturing and improvement, Honda's motorcycle production technology was already one of the best in the world. At the same time, Toyota's cars in Japan were already famous in the world, and Honda was not willing to only produce motorcycles.
in p>1961, Honda began to research and manufacture automobiles, and had the experience of developing motorcycles. The same routine, let's make a name for itself first, and participate in the world's top motor sports competition F1, which began in 195. The first time I went to participate in the F1 competition, the history was always strikingly similar. However, if you don't let him lose, he still doesn't know how to do it. It's not that I have never lost. Looking for problems and summing up experience, I have to get a champion. In 1964, at the F1 circuit in Mexico, Honda RA272 racing car, equipped with a 48-valve V12 water-cooled engine, finally won the sub-station championship after tenacious struggle and fierce fighting. Honda is happy. Zong Ichiro has always had this ideal and desire, hoping that the car he made can win the championship in the international arena. This time, Zong Ichiro can be regarded as a dream. At the same time, Honda's champion also brought Japanese automobile manufacturing technology to the forefront in the world, and later won the fourth place in the year-end points in 1967, withdrew from F1 race in 1968, and did not return to F1 track until 1983.
While Honda was developing steadily, Japan promulgated the "muskie" in 197. This policy, to put it bluntly, is the policy of limiting automobile emissions. This policy was first put forward by the Americans, and the Japanese used it for reference. Japan is a country that loves learning very much. It used to learn from China, and then China closed its doors and became more and more backward. As soon as Japan failed to learn, it would turn its back on learning from the Qing Dynasty. Japan is the first country in all Asian countries to take the lead in capital. Besides, the promulgation and implementation of this law is undoubtedly a huge blow to automobile companies. The life and death lies in whether they can produce engines that meet the requirements.
The excitement came. In 1972, Honda developed CCVC engine, not CCTV. This engine technology was one step ahead of Ford, Toyota and Nissan. Although I started late, don't forget that I am a technical madman. In 1973, this engine was mounted on the "Sibigu" car. We all know that this car was launched the next year. It was called "Akkord" and our people called it the Accord! After the launch of these two cars, Honda's automobile kingdom began to make great strides towards the international market, and its sales in the United States were second only to GM and Toyota. The engine of CCVC also made Honda Technical Research Industry Corporation highly praised by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Association.
in Honda's view, if you want to mix things up in the automobile industry, you have to take part in the race. After failing to win the championship in Formula One, Honda cooperated with Williams as an engine supplier in 1986, defeating all its rivals and winning the world championship in Formula One in 1986.
by 198s, Honda had become the third largest automobile manufacturer in Japan, and by the end of 198s, Honda had become the third largest automobile manufacturer in the world. At the same time, Kawashima, Honda's successor, likes to pursue his basic policy of "business should face the world" and decided to build a factory in the United States to produce Honda cars. The Honda-Akkord brand car produced by Honda in the United States became the best-selling car in the United States in the 198s and 199s, and made Shoichiro Honda the first Japanese entrepreneur to enter the American Automobile Hall of Fame.
As a person with low education, Shoichiro Honda is different from other Japanese entrepreneurs in that he is not only persistent in manufacturing technology, but also advanced in business philosophy. In 1973, Honda held the 25th anniversary of its establishment. On this day, he resigned as the chairman of Honda Technology Research Industry Corporation and became the company's top consultant. He gave the throne of the company's top leader to Kawashima, 45. This successor has nothing to do with Shoichiro Honda, but an ordinary technical expert, which has been passed down as a much-told story in the history of Japanese enterprises, and it is also a visionary pioneering work!
Shoichiro Honda has 45 inventions and 15 patents, and is known as one of the four saints of Japanese management. Throughout his life, Shoichiro Honda is a legendary figure!
Let's talk about Honda's housekeeping skills again. First of all, we have to talk about Honda's engine technology. In 1989, Kenichi Matsuzawa invented i-VTEC technology, which is translated into Chinese as "variable valve phase and lift control system". After Honda's technology, BMW's Valvetronic, Toyota's VVT-i and Mitsubishi's MIVEC came into being. This technology of Honda is all variable valve timing and lift control technologies. Black technology, in-cylinder direct injection technology, engine lightweight, variable valve lift technology, etc. of Earthdream engine, the use of these technologies makes Honda engine excellent in power and fuel consumption compared with other engines with the same displacement. Honda's CVT gearbox, AT gearbox and dual clutch gearbox are unique, and many of its parts are produced by itself, which ensures the quality of spare parts and thus reduces the failure rate of the whole vehicle. It has a JD-POWER ranking in the United States and the world. Honda's reliability also makes Honda's value preservation rate in the used car market very high! In addition, Honda also has its own MM concept, which is to minimize the engine compartment and trunk and maximize the passenger compartment, which is vividly reflected in the Fit model!
if Audi is a technical madman in Germany, then Honda is a technical madman in Japan.
when it comes to technology, someone must talk about the oil valve incident. Honda's turbocharging was only used on domestic Honda in recent years. As early as the 198s, Honda's turbocharging dominated the F1 race, which made European parking lots talk about T-color change. Although the oil valve incident caused Honda's sales in China to drop greatly and made Honda feel ashamed, it cannot be denied that Honda is pursuing the ultimate technology, and it is impossible to treat a car brand unilaterally. In fact, there will be various problems with each new model. For some small problems, the 4S shop will secretly improve them, and the big problems will generally be recalled. Therefore, it is generally recommended to decide whether to buy them after the first half of the year! Of course, Honda also has some shortcomings, such as poor sound insulation and poor comfort.
Actually, cars are just like people. They are not perfect. Only the selling point of this car is exactly what you like, that is, the car that suits you!
how to choose a car is entirely based on personal preferences and personal needs!
This is a basic development course of Honda, which is not comprehensive enough. I haven't talked about Honda's luxury brands yet. I will write a development course about Acura in the future. Finally, I will share a real-time selling price of several models that Honda often sells, for reference only. The preferential policies in each place are different. The price I got is basically the lowest in the country, pure naked cars. (No mortgage, no insurance, no decoration)
CRV guide price 1798 discount at 17
Civic guide price 1399 discount at 6
Accord guide price 1898 discount at 15
Fit guide price 818 discount at 7
PS: I am not a Honda powder!