The Honda Motor Company, with its famous slogan 'The Power of Dreams' is a Japanese public multinational corporation, most commonly known as an automobile manufacturer, producing cars and motorcycles, but is also a major player in the production of power equipment, engines, robots, aircraft, solar cells, mountain bikes and all-terrain vehicles.
Honda is the world's largest motorcycles manufacturer, and has been since 1959, and became the second largest Japanese automobile manufacturer just after the turn of the century, in 2001.
The company is well known for its green credentials, and has a number of electric and alternatively fuelled vehicles on the market, such as the Honda Civic GX, which runs on natural gas, the Honda Insight, which uses electricity to run, and the Honda FCX Clarity, which is a hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The company was founded in Hamamatsu, Japan on 24th September 1948 by Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa. Since a very young age, Soichiro Honda had had a passion for automobiles, and he even worked in a garage as a youngster, tuning cars and entering them into races. Honda passed away on 5th August 1991, but the company has gone from strength to strength in his memory, managing to turnover £62 billion in the year of 2012.