Honda Celebrates Its Legacy With Over 100 Products Into This Ad

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. debuts a new brand marketing campaign, taking viewers on a journey through the company’s global, 73-year product history to demonstrate how it will continue innovating to fulfill the vision of founder Soichiro Honda that “the purpose of technology is to help people.” The “Origin of Determination” campaign kicks off with a new 60-second TV spot highlighting over 100 of Honda’s pioneering products, while pointing toward Honda’s future.The new, multi-channel brand campaign brings to life many of the company’s most iconic products. Starting with Honda’s first product, the 1947 A-Type motorcycle, the TV spot features a host of legendary two and four-wheeled race machines, the all-new 2022 Civic, and the wide-ranging Honda product portfolio – including cars, light trucks, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, marine engines and the HondaJet Elite S.Creating the “Origin of Determination” TV spot to reflect over 100 Honda products required a combination of historical photos, live-action and computer graphics (CG) models to tell the company’s mobility story in one, action-packed sequence. Throughout the spot, viewers will see a rapidly expanding supernova of products flowing out in all directions, representing the origin story of Honda.Viewers will see new and iconic heritage Honda products during the 60-second spot set to “Stampede” – a remix of Verdi’s "La Traviata, Act I” – by Superhuman, including:

• 1949 Honda Dream D-Type: the first original motorcycle created by Soichiro Honda
• S600 sports car: the company’s first passenger car
• RA272 Formula 1 race car: the first Honda race machine to win an F1 race in 1965, and various other Honda-powered race machines
• 1973 Honda Civic: the breakthrough first-generation Civic that led the industry in meeting the stricter exhaust emissions requirements of the U.S. Clean Air Act without using a catalytic converter
• 2022 Honda Civic: the best-handling, best-equipped and most fun-to-drive Civic ever
• Honda’s rugged light truck lineup: including the 2022 Ridgeline pickup
• Honda powersports products: including the Talon sport side-by-side
• HondaJet Elite S: the fastest, farthest and highest-flying aircraft in its class

Honda started U.S. operations with the establishment of America Honda Motor Co., Inc. in 1959. Today, Honda employs 30,000 associates in America engaged in the development, manufacturing, sales and service support of Honda and Acura automobiles, Honda power equipment, Honda powersports products, and the HondaJet advanced light jet.