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Latest archived mark · 2000

Honda

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Subaru

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What we compare	Honda	Subaru
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	1946	July 15, 1953
Founder	Soichiro Honda	Kenji Kita
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Tokyo, 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.	Subaru is the Japanese name of the Pleiades star cluster. Kenji Kita, the head of Fuji Heavy Industries, gave the name to the company's first passenger car project after none of the staff suggestions satisfied him. It was a Japanese word he said he had long held dear.
Selected models	S800, Civic, Accord, CR-V, NSX, S2000	Subaru 360, Impreza WRX, Legacy, Outback, Forester, Alcyone SVX
Earliest archived brand logo	1961	1953
Latest archived logo	2000	2019
Archived logo assets	6	9

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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