KEEPING IT SIMPLE
Honda Motor Company had been in America since 1959, but was known for its reliable motorcycles and friendly, “You meet the nicest people on a Honda” ad campaign. The company’s four-wheeled success in Formula 1, and its line of small-displacement rear-drive roadsters that made the marque famous elsewhere, largely escaped Stateside notice. But anyone surveying the automotive landscape knew that Honda was going to follow its own path in whatever it did.
After a decade of seducing motorcycle enthusiasts, Honda entered the American car market with a pair of front-wheel-drive, air-cooled, transverse-engined, Mini Cooper-sized automobiles. Between 1970 and 1972, a total of 35,000 N600 sedans and 15,500 Z coupes were sold in North America, not bad for a company that had
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