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Latest archived mark · 2000

Honda

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Latest archived mark · 2020

Nissan

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What we compare	Honda	Nissan
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	1946	1933
Founder	Soichiro Honda	Yoshisuke Aikawa
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	Yokohama, Kanagawa, 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.	Nissan is a contraction of Nihon Sangyo, the Japanese name of Yoshisuke Aikawa's holding company, which was abbreviated that way on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the 1930s. The automobile business that took the name grew out of Aikawa's group and the earlier DAT and Datsun cars.
Selected models	S800, Civic, Accord, CR-V, NSX, S2000	Datsun 240Z, Skyline GT-R, Datsun 510, Silvia, Leaf
Earliest archived brand logo	1961	1933
Latest archived logo	2000	2020
Archived logo assets	6	18

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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