American Honda Motor Company

rdf:langString American Honda Motor Company

rdf:langString American Honda Motor Company, Inc.

rdf:langString American Honda Motor Company, Inc.

rdf:langString ; in Los Angeles, California, U.S.

rdf:langString Shinji Aoyama

rdf:langString Honda-logo.svg

rdf:langString c. 31,000

rdf:langString The American Honda Motor Company, Inc. (sometimes abbreviated as AHM) is the North American Honda subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company, Ltd. It was founded in 1959. The company combines product sales, service and coordinating functions of Honda in North America, and is responsible for distribution, marketing and sales of Honda and Acura brand automobiles, Honda power sports products, including motorcycles, scooters and all-terrain vehicles, and Honda power equipment products, including lawnmowers, tillers, string trimmers, generators, small displacement general-purpose engines and marine outboard engines. As of 2022, Honda-brand automobile models include the Accord, Civic, CR-V, HR-V, Odyssey, Passport, Pilot and Ridgeline. Acura-brand models are the Integra, MDX, NSX, RDX, and TLX. Honda claims several firsts for a Japanese car maker in the United States. The company was the first to create a subsidiary to market and sell its vehicles in the country, and the first to manufacture automobiles in North America. American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's first overseas subsidiary opened in Los Angeles in 1959 which was unusual for the time, as other foreign auto companies typically relied on independent distributors.