Honda Super Cub motorcycle
Motocicleta popular Honda Super Cub
- Date
- 1958 · confidence high
- Place
- Honda, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa
- People
- 👤 Sōichirō Honda1906–1991👤 Takeo Fujisawa1910–1988
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A cheap, reliable 50 cc moped with an automatic clutch, of which more than 100 million units have been made. It is the most-produced motor vehicle in history and motorised Asia.
What it led to
- The motorisation of Southeast Asia and the moto-taxi economy
- The rise of the Japanese motor industry and its reputation for reliability
- Urban home delivery
Built on
- Four-stroke internal combustion engine1876
- Vespa (1946)
- four-stroke engine
Made possible
- motorcycle taxi
- home delivery
- electric motorcycles