Honda Sells Its 60 Millionth - Yes, Millionth - Super Cub
The venerable Honda Super Cub motorcycle is the best-selling vehicle in the history of internal combustion, and there are now more than 60 million of them on the road. That's an amazing figure that speaks to the strength of a 49 cc motorcycle Soichiro Honda designed 50 years ago, helping spur Japan's eventual rise to dominance in the motorcycle industry.
The Cub was a turning point in the history of motorcycles because it took them from the hands of The Wild Bunch and gave them to suburbanites with ads promising "You meet the nicest people on a Honda." It brought motorcycles into the mainstream, and made personal transportation affordable to people around the world. Sometime last month, Honda says, the 60 millionth Honda Super Cub rolled off an assembly line.
The Cub isn't very fast and it isn't very pretty, but it's everything you need in basic transportation - cheap, efficient and damn near indestructible. It'll take as much abuse as you can throw at it and, like Max Mosely, come back for more. You can even toss it off a building and it'll start right up.
See for yourself...
The Cub was a turning point in the history of motorcycles because it took them from the hands of The Wild Bunch and gave them to suburbanites with ads promising "You meet the nicest people on a Honda." It brought motorcycles into the mainstream, and made personal transportation affordable to people around the world. Sometime last month, Honda says, the 60 millionth Honda Super Cub rolled off an assembly line.
The Cub isn't very fast and it isn't very pretty, but it's everything you need in basic transportation - cheap, efficient and damn near indestructible. It'll take as much abuse as you can throw at it and, like Max Mosely, come back for more. You can even toss it off a building and it'll start right up.
See for yourself...
- video added May 24, 2008
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The USA is finally getting a Cub, SPRING 2009!
Here's the link with the details:
http://tinyurl.com/supercub-
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- geekaustin
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