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[[Image:1959_honda_C100.jpg|right|thumb|1959 [[Honda C100]]]] | [[Image:1959_honda_C100.jpg|right|thumb|1959 [[Honda C100]]]] | ||
During the 1950s, the [[Honda|Honda Motor Company]] emerged from obscurity, having survived and won the battle with hundreds of competing postwar motor-bicycle companies. The company had found a first key to financial strength in the successful step-through [[Honda_C100|1958 Super Cub]]®, and would now reinvest its earnings in further research, and production plants such as the one built at Suzuka, then the largest [[motorcycle]] manufacturing plant in the world. | During the 1950s, the [[Honda|Honda Motor Company]] emerged from obscurity, having survived and won the battle with hundreds of competing postwar motor-bicycle companies. The company had found a first key to financial strength in the successful [[step-through]] [[Honda_C100|1958 Super Cub]]®, and would now reinvest its earnings in further research, and production plants such as the one built at Suzuka, then the largest [[motorcycle]] manufacturing plant in the world. | ||
[[Image:Soichiro Honda.jpg|100px|thumb|left|[[Soichiro Honda]]]] | [[Image:Soichiro Honda.jpg|100px|thumb|left|[[Soichiro Honda]]]] | ||