Honda

A man who put engines on bicycles. A company that beat the world by thinking small. A racing team that humiliated Ferrari. That is where Honda begins. Soichiro Honda was not born into privilege. He grew up in a small Japanese village, the son of a blacksmith who also repaired bicycles. Young Soichiro spent his childhood in the workshop, smelling metal and oil, watching his father fix things . At fifteen, he left home for Tokyo. No money. No connections. Just a hunger to understand machines. He apprenticed at a garage, working on cars all day, sleeping on the floor at night. By 1928, he had his own repair shop . But Soichiro wanted to build, not just fix. In 1937, he started making piston rings. He worked obsessively, sometimes sleeping in the factory. The first batches were terrible, rejected by... More