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Honda Sōichirō (1906–1991) was the founder of Honda, now a multinational manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and aircraft. The company was launched in 1948 as a maker of motorcycles and expanded into four-wheel vehicles 15 years later, in 1963.

Today, it ranks among the world’s top automakers.

Honda stepped down as president in 1973, when he was 66. That the company continued to register steady growth thereafter in markets worldwide is perhaps his greatest legacy—a testament to the attention the pioneering businessman and engineer gave to ensuring that his successors would enjoy prolonged growth. 

Rushing into Competitive Racing

Honda was born in 1906 in a small village in Shizuoka Prefecture, where his father was a blacksmith.

At 15, he left his hometown for Tokyo to work as an apprentice at an auto repair shop, dreaming all the while of one day becoming an auto manufacturer. At 22, he returne