The Appearance of a full-fledged Motorcycle, the Dream D-Type (1949)

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1. The cumulative total of the motorcycles produced by Honda passed the hundred million mark in October 1997....

<< 2. The new machine seemed to have gotten off to such a fine start. Why, then, did it stop selling?
<< 3. The challenge of making “a motorcycle anybody would find easy to ride” resulted in something far from success....
<< 4. However, there was something missing in the Honda Motor Co., and ...
 



However, there was something missing in the Honda Motor Co., and that was a sales system and a business strategy. In these respects, it was still the same old company it had been before. Then, just at this time, President Honda had an encounter with Takeo Fujisawa, which was to determine the fate of both men.
A look at the course of events that brought Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa together provides a clear picture of how these two individuals who built up the foundation of the Honda Motor Co. had each formed his own distinctive character, way of thought, and philosophy.
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