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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| Honda, Soichiro |
| 1906–91, Japanese automobile executive. A mechanic and race car driver, he was a self-taught engineer. Honda founded a motorcycle company in the 1940s and began producing cars in the 1950s. His company’s clean-burning CVCC engine created an automotive revolution, and its cars won a large share of the U.S. market. |
| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2007 Columbia University Press. |
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