The Eve of Honda’s American Expansion
Honda’s impending full-scale exportation of Civic cars and CVCC engines to the U.S. was to occur at a time in which the American auto industry was suffering the effects of the first oil crisis, which had made consumers wary of the cumbersome “gas guzzlers” being offered by Detroit. In fact, the U.S. makers still had no consensus concerning a technology that would meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Read more ...
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| Executive Vice President Kihachiro Kawashima made an announcement on October 11, 1979, regarding the building of a Honda motorcycle factory in the Midwestern U.S. state of Ohio. |
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