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Latest archived mark · 2018

Mazda

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Latest archived mark · 2000

Honda

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What we compare	Mazda	Honda
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	January 30, 1920	1946
Founder	Jujiro Matsuda	Soichiro Honda
Headquarters	Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan	Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Name origin	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.	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.
Selected models	Cosmo Sport, RX-7, MX-5 Miata, 787B, CX-5, Mazda3	S800, Civic, Accord, CR-V, NSX, S2000
Earliest archived brand logo	1920	1961
Latest archived logo	2018	2000
Archived logo assets	15	6

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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