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Latest archived mark · 2000

Honda

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Latest archived mark · 2018

Mazda

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What we compare	Honda	Mazda
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	1946	January 30, 1920
Founder	Soichiro Honda	Jujiro Matsuda
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan
Name origin	Honda is the surname of founder Soichiro Honda. The company was first set up as the Honda Technical Research Institute in 1946, and the family name became the brand without any invented word or acronym.	Mazda's own account says the name comes from Ahura Mazda, described as the god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia. The company also notes that the name derives from the surname of its founder, Jujiro Matsuda. The name first appeared on the Mazda-Go three-wheeled truck in 1931.
Selected models	S800, Civic, Accord, CR-V, NSX, S2000	Cosmo Sport, RX-7, MX-5 Miata, 787B, CX-5, Mazda3
Earliest archived brand logo	1961	1920
Latest archived logo	2000	2018
Archived logo assets	6	15

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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