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Latest archived mark · 2020

Nissan

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Honda

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What we compare	Nissan	Honda
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	1933	1946
Founder	Yoshisuke Aikawa	Soichiro Honda
Headquarters	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan	Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Name origin	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.	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	Datsun 240Z, Skyline GT-R, Datsun 510, Silvia, Leaf	S800, Civic, Accord, CR-V, NSX, S2000
Earliest archived brand logo	1933	1961
Latest archived logo	2020	2000
Archived logo assets	18	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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