We head to the Japan Mobility Show Kansai to take a closer look at the real, ridable Legendary Pokémon.
Honda
Honda’s fastest sports car is also its model that sounds closest to a mother’s womb, researchers find.
Ashirase sounds great for anyone who gets lost easily, but there’s another group of people Honda has in mind.
If you’ve wanted to race around the streets of your home town on a pink-and-white scooter like Natsumi, now’s your chance!
Actual driving experience may not include Angel battles, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka want us to know.
The car manufacturer promotes safer streets with this snappy side-satchel for grade-school students.
Enako dresses up to celebrate new service that lets you go for a drive with Hatsune Miku.
Although in the cars’ defense I never really knew what that logo was supposed to be either.
Honda has come a long way since being founded in 1946. Now world-renown, the company has moved on to become the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles, as well as internal combustion engines. Automobiles aren’t the only things it produces either, with lawnmowers, planes, and robots among its list of products.
This new short animation, created by stop-motion masters PES, illustrates Honda’s unique transformation and accomplishments over the years. The two-minute film took a team of dozens of animators and illustrators four months and thousands of original drawings to complete. Keep in mind the fact that absolutely none of this is computer generated—a rarity in this day and age—which makes the animation all the more jaw-dropping.
Toyota recently announced it plans to begin consumer sales of a Fuel Cell Vehicle sometime around the beginning of 2015, which has the potential to be a huge step towards a more environmentally-friendly system of personal transportation. Rival carmaker Honda isn’t about to let Japan’s largest auto manufacturer have this new field all to itself, though, as it looks to be moving ahead with plans to start selling an FCV of its own within the country that aims to be the class leader in both performance and price.
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