Best printers for Home

Best Mixer Grinder

Best wired Earphones

Best 43 Inch TV in India

Best Wi Fi Routers

Best Home Theatre in India

Smart Watch under 5000

Best Laptops for Education

Best Laptop for Students

If the regular, mundane lifestyle of yours has bored you to the core and you are desperately looking for some inspiration in life, you should seek some from these seven leaders. People say they were born to inspire and we couldn’t agree more. These leaders are: Colonel Sanders (Founder, KFC), <keyword id="45830" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bill-Gates">Bill gates</keyword> (Founder, <keyword id="10387" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Microsoft">Microsoft</keyword>), <keyword id="424838" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Jack-Ma">Jack Ma</keyword> (Founder and Executive Chairman, <keyword id="302749" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Alibaba">Alibaba</keyword>), <keyword id="958272" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Soichiro-Honda">Soichiro Honda</keyword> (Founder, <keyword id="20630" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Honda">Honda</keyword> Motor Co.), <keyword id="6629386" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Henry-Ford">Henry Ford</keyword> (Founder, Ford Motor Company), <keyword id="58954" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Richard-Branson">Richard Branson</keyword> (Founder, <keyword id="182673" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Virgin-Group">Virgin Group</keyword>), and <keyword id="6355315" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Elon-Musk">Elon Musk</keyword> (CEO and CTO, SpaceX). 
 
Here are 7 pics by WittyFeed that will give you a quick glimpse of the challenges and failures these leaders overcame to be successful. 
 
 
 
 
 
(Image: <a href="http://www.wittyfeed.com/story/6652/These-Minimal-Posters-Describe-The-Epic-Struggle-Of-Startup-Legends">WittyFeed</a>)

7 People Who Were “Born To Inspire”

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Benjamin Zhang/Business InsiderA HondaJet Elite on the production line.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/hondajet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Honda</a> HA-420 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/hondajet-elite" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HondaJet Elite</a> is one of the most advanced light <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/private-jet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">private jets</a> in the world.</li><li>The HA-420 is Honda's first foray into the business of aircraft design and manufacturing. </li><li>In 2006, the Honda Aircraft Company was set up to commercialize the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/hondajet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HondaJet</a> with its headquarters based in Greensboro, North Carolina.</li><li>Here's a closer look at Honda Aircraft's sprawling Greensboro campus. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>The Honda HA-420, known to most people as simply the HondaJet, is one of the most impressive and innovative light business jets on the market. The HondaJet is the culmination of three decades worth of research and development led by aerospace engineer Michimasa Fujino. Fujino told Business Insider that the Japanese automaker's foray into aviation was initially a closely held secret. In fact, even company Soichiro Honda was not told of the project. By 2003, the HondaJet was ready to fly. Three years later, the Honda Aircraft Company was established with Fujino as its CEO. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/honda-jet-elite-coolest-features-photos-2019-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We flew on Honda's new $5.25 million private jet. Here are its coolest features</a>.In the fall of 2017, Business Insider had the chance to experience the HondaJet first hand on a test flight over the Northeastern United States. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/honda-jet-elite-coolest-features-photos-2019-3">It was magnificent.</a> The HondaJet proved to be quick, comfortable, and chock full of innovative design features.In 2018, Honda introduced an updated version of the plane called the HondaJet Elite. The name matches with the designation given to the company's luxury spec automobiles. Earlier this year, we traveled to the company's headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina for a test flight of the Honda Jet Elite. With redesigned wings and engine intakes, the Elite is even quieter and more aerodynamic than the original HondaJet. At $5.25 million, the Elite costs around $350,000 more than its predecessor. As part of our day at Honda Aircraft headquarters, we also got the chance to tour the company's production facility and delivery center. Here's a closer look:

Check out the $230 million factory in North Carolina where Honda builds its private jet

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/ Toru HanaiHonda can reveal cars with drama, too.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/tesla">Tesla</a> is routinely called a tech company, especially by supporters in Silicon Valley.</li><li>But as <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/tsla-stock">Tesla</a> builds and sells more vehicles - in 2018, it has delivered almost 250,000 - it is becoming more of a car company every day.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/honda">Tesla's</a> other lines of business - solar and batteries - suggest an affinity with a wildly successful carmaker that also manufacturers other stuff: Honda.</li></ul> You hear it all the time: Tesla isn't a car company, it's a technology company.This is because Tesla is based in Silicon Valley, has made pricey all-electric cars popular among the tech elite, and has restyled the automobile as a dynamic software platform.Check, check, check - but this does not a tech company make. In fact, Tesla is becoming more of a car company every day, as it, you know, builds and sells more cars. Plus, almost all of Tesla's revenue comes from its vehicle business. Hard to avoid that.I could go on, but even people who concede that Tesla is a car company tend to compare it with BMW or Porsche, automakers that play in the luxury-performance segment of the market and that can generate double-digit profit margins.There is, however, a car company that Tesla already somewhat resembles: Honda.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-profitable-quarters-means-it-is-boring-company-2019-1">Tesla has booked two straight quarters of profits - here are the 5 biggest takeaways from that achievement</a><h2>Tesla the integrated energy conglomerate</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">TeslaMusk showcasing a solar roof panel.</div></div></div>Truth be told, Tesla should probably consciously strive to become even more like Honda. Here's why. Tesla stopped being Tesla Motors a few years back and became Tesla the integrated energy conglomerate. Electric vehicles are one line of business. Solar-power solutions is another, following the acquisition of SolarCity in 2016. Then there's energy storage, based on Tesla battery tech, which is an additional enterprise.Now let's look at Honda. Its car business is the namesake brand, which arrived in the US in 1959, and the Acura luxury marque, launched in 1986. But Honda has been manufacturing motorcycles and scooters since the 1940s, and any suburbanite knows the company produces lawn mowers and snowblowers. Its generators are legendary. It also makes engines, including high-performance racing motors. And for a brief period of time, it was in the solar business. More recently, it entered the private jet game.Honda is known in the auto industry as the most engineering-driven carmaker next to BMW (which has a motorcycle division). "I think best when I have a wrench in my hand," founder Soichiro Honda once said. Following in his footsteps means know how stuff works.As much as Silicon Valley has adopted Tesla as a sort of software-adjacent company, CEO Elon Musk's firm is really a design-and-engineering operation. Code is cool, and Musk is adept at talking that talk. But Tesla most significant achievement is in creating a viable market for electric vehicles, a century after they lost out to internal-combustion-engined cars. <h2>Like Honda in so many ways - except motorcycles</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Matthew DeBord/BIA throwback Honda motorcycle.</div></div></div>Musk himself is perhaps the most technically knowledgeable chief-executive, at least when it comes to EVs, in the industry (he's certainly the most knowledgeable when it comes to rocket science). He has infamously labored on his own assembly lines and slept at his own factories. He is, in short, the Soichiro Honda of electric cars. And batteries. And solar panels. About the only way that Musk deviates from the Honda engineer-as-leader playbook is in his steadfast refusal for Tesla to make an electric motorcycle. But even that stems from personal experience. Musk rode dirt bikes as a kid and later cheated death a near-accident on a larger motorcycle. It's a stand that could actually be hurting Tesla, as a two-wheeler from the company would probably double the tiny electric-motorcycle market overnight.At a more serious level, Honda has enjoyed decades of success by putting an engineering-heavy culture into practice. Honda executes and executes brilliantly. That's something Tesla hasn't always done. And could learn to do. From the master.Get the latest Tesla stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/TSLA-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-left-tesla-fired-2018-10">What would happen if Elon Musk left Tesla</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Everyone who thinks Tesla is a tech company is completely wrong - Tesla should aspire to be Honda

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Honda is returning to the Super Bowl this weekend with an all-star ad that encourages viewers to follow their dreams.The ad features the high school yearbook photos of celebrities including Jimmy Kimmel, Missy Elliott, Tina Fey, "Magic" Johnson, Steve Carell, Viola Davis, Robert Redford, Amy Adams, and Stan Lee.Using layering and visual effects technology to animate the vintage photos, each celebrity in the 60-second spot reflects on the challenges they had to overcome and the ambition required for them to eventually become successful. The ad, created by ad agency RPA, promotes Honda's new CR-V vehicle.Speaking to Business Insider, Honda Auto <keyword id="6354839" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="marketing">marketing</keyword> assistant vice president Susie Rossick said the concept of the ad is built around the brand's wider messaging and tagline "Power of Dreams."She said: "The whole idea behind 'Power of Dreams' is embedded in us from our founder Soichiro Honda. He came across a lot of obstacles in building and making Honda successful. Everyone told him: 'You will never be able to do this,' but he never let anybody tell him 'no'. The 'Power of Dreams' is something we try to live every day. Honda has had its challenges over the years but we have kept this spirit of never giving up on your dreams, always."This Sunday's game marks 20 years since Honda first debuted its original CR-V. It is also the second year in a row the automaker has advertised in the Super Bowl. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/honda-ridgeline-truck-sheep-super-bowl-ad-2016-2">Last year's ad featured a choir of sheep</a> singing along to Queen's "Somebody to Love," promoting the Ridgeline truck.Rossick said that ad directly resulted in 120,000 "handraisers." Honda refers to "handraisers" as consumers who opt in to receiving more information about a vehicle, such as when it will be available to buy. The company is currently looking to match back which of those handraisers actually went on to buy a Ridgeline.But with the price of a 30-second slot at the Super Bowl rising each year - broadcaster Fox is reportedly asking for upwards of $5 million this time around - will Honda always be able to justify the cost?Rossick said: "I'm not at liberty to disclose how much we paid. Do I think it's worth it? Of course there's always the feeling when something isn't worth getting involved with, but we still value this as a great platform to introduce a vehicle. 110 million people [watch the Super Bowl on TV] and nobody turns away when the commercials run. They watch, they engage, and it's a great opportunity to introduce our CR-V. I still strongly feel it provides a great return."Alongside the ad itself, Honda launched a social media campaign on Thursday - which many people celebrate as "Throwback Thursday" on social platforms - that will see celebrities from the ad and other musicians and athletes share their old high school yearbook photos and some of the challenges they had to overcome in their younger lives. Some of those celebrities will also respond to social media users joining in the campaign with advice on how they can achieve their goals.<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wwe-chief-marketing-revenue-officer-michelle-wilson-ces-interview-2017-1">WWE's marketing and revenue boss says its content output has doubled in the last 5 years, all thanks to digital</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="A5cGMxOTE6oUhPOPDBPRWLoCAT8iKGn4" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Honda explains why a Super Bowl ad is worth every dollar

Honda is known for its engineering excellence. It's also a company willing to take its time to get things right. For example, Honda famously spent a decade perfecting its second-generation <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/honda-acura-nsx-business-insider-car-of-the-year-2016-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NSX supercar, Business Insider's 2016 Car of the Year</a>.Naturally, we weren't shocked to learn that the company spent 30 years getting its first private jet off the ground. In 1986, Honda's aviation team - led by a young aeronautical engineer named Michimasa Fujino - began work on the company's ambitious foray into the aerospace industry. It was one of the final major projects greenlit by Soichiro Honda, the aviation enthusiast who founded the company, before his death in 1991.In 2006, the Honda Aircraft Corporation was formed, with Fujino as its CEO, to develop, build, and sell the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cirrus-vision-cheapest-private-jet-2017-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$4.5 million HondaJet</a>."The power of dreams is both the force and the philosophy that guide us at Honda," Fujino wrote on the company's website. "Now, Honda proudly brings you to the pinnacle of engineering performance - the HondaJet."He called it "the world's most advanced light business jet."Recently, Business Insider had the opportunity to take a test flight on board one of Honda's demonstrators at Morristown Airport in New Jersey.Here's a closer look at our test flight.

We flew in Honda's new $4.9 million private jet - here's what it was like

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Benjamin ZhangHondaJet and Me!</div></div></div><ul><li>The HondaJet entered production in 2015. </li><li>The jet has a range of around 1,400 miles with four passengers and can go from Boston to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in less than three hours.</li><li>I took a ride in the $4.5 million HondaJet and was impressed by how smooth the flight was and how open the cabin felt. </li></ul>Honda is a company known for its engineering excellence. It's also a company willing to take its time to get things right. For example, Honda famously spent a decade perfecting its second generation <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/honda-acura-nsx-business-insider-car-of-the-year-2016-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NSX supercar, Business Insider's 2016 Car of the Year</a>. Naturally, we weren't exactly shocked to learn that the company spent 30 years getting its first private jet off the ground. In 1986, Honda's aviation team led by a young aeronautical engineer named Michimasa Fujino began work on the company's ambitious foray into the aerospace industry. It was one of the final major projects greenlit by company founder and aviation enthusiast Soichiro Honda prior to his death in 1991. In 2006, the Honda Aircraft Corporation was formed, with Fujino as its CEO, to develop, build, and sell the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cirrus-vision-cheapest-private-jet-2017-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$4.5 million HondaJet</a>. "The power of dreams is both the force and the philosophy that guide us at Honda. Now, Honda proudly brings you to the pinnacle of engineering performance- the HondaJet," Fujino wrote on the company's website. "The HondaJet is the world's most advanced light business jet."Recently, Business Insider had the opportunity to take a test flight on board of one of Honda's demonstrators at Morristown Airport in New Jersey. Here's a closer look at our test flight:

I flew on Honda's new $4.5 million private jet and it's an absolute gamechanger

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image">PortfolioHonda associates at a plant in Lincoln, Ala., that recycles 80 million pounds of scrap metal each year.</div></div>The path to writing "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Honda-Inside-Innovative-Company/dp/1591844738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406556431&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Driving+Honda%3A+Inside+The+World%27s+Most+Innovative+Car+Company">Driving Honda: Inside The World's Most Innovative Car Company</a>" began with a question that perplexed me: If globalization was supposed to be such a boon to multinationals, why are so many large manufacturers struggling to make money outside of their home markets? 
Few global manufacturers would admit it publicly, but in many private conversations with executives I heard some version of this statement: "We're selling more products than ever in China and South America and other emerging markets, but our profit margins there are minuscule to flat, when they even exist."
To address this puzzle, I sought to find companies that could serve as successful models for multinationals operating in a globalized commercial environment; I hoped to identify the characteristics that make an individual business more likely to generate high profit margins, innovate, behave in socially responsible ways, and be strategically creative wherever it establishes a foothold. Almost immediately, Honda Motor Co. fit the bill.
To begin with, Honda has looked outward from its home shores well before other manufacturers considered making or even selling products overseas. As long ago as the 1950s, when Honda was only a few years old, the company's founder, Soichiro Honda, bemoaned the limited growth opportunities in "little Japan," declaring that Honda Motor must "maintain an international viewpoint" and perceive the rest of the world as its potential customer base and factory footprint.
It's no surprise, then, that Honda began selling motorcycles in the U.S. as early as 1959 and autos a few years later. Nor that Honda stunned the auto industry with its 1974 Civic, the first car to meet stringent U.S. Clean Air Act emissions standards even as the large American automakers and Toyota were claiming it was impossible to economically produce an engine that lived up to the act's goals. Or that Honda became the first non-domestic automaker to successfully manufacture cars in the U.S. when it opened its Anna plant in 1982.
Honda's aggressive early globalization strategy in the U.S. was followed by similar successful forays in other parts of the world: It was the first Japanese company to produce cars in China and its earnings record in India and Southeast Asia and other far-flung regions is the envy of the auto industry. 
In large part because of its approach to global operations, Honda, a relative industrial newbie, has a lot to boast about: By a large margin, Honda is the preeminent engine maker in the world with an output of more than 20 million internal combustion motors annually; Honda has never posted a loss in its history, and its automobile operating profit ratios of about 5% consistently top the industry; Honda's stock price has nearly doubled since September 2008, when the global economy collapsed; and Honda vehicles are the most durable and long-lasting of any automaker, with 75% of its cars and trucks sold in the last 25 years still on the road. 
What then has made Honda excel so adeptly as a global multinational? The secret strategic sauce that distinguishes Honda from other manufacturers can be broken down into five ingredients:
<h3>1. Don't globalize, localize.</h3>
Unlike Toyota and most other multinationals in any industry, Honda is not a top-down company, controlled by headquarters. Instead, Honda manufacturing subsidiaries virtually everywhere around the world operate as autonomous companies, designing and producing vehicles based on local conditions and consumer behavior.
 In "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolutionizing/dp/0743299795/" target="_blank">The Machine That Changed </a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolutionizing/dp/0743299795/" target="_blank">the World</a>," the landmark book about automobile lean manufacturing, the authors praised Honda's localization strategy for "its conviction about doing it all in one place" - in other words, combining engineering, design, and manufacturing functions in each of its large local facilities. By contrast, virtually all industrial companies keep R&amp;D and other technical and design functions close to home, where they can be managed by executives who are miles removed from local preferences and circumstances.
<h3>2. Embrace paradox.</h3>
Honda is a questioning, knowledge-rich organization, which demands that its workers at all levels continually poke holes in the status quo. They do that through daily, often spontaneous meetings known as "waigaya" during which decisions, large and small, are reevaluated and turned on their head in hopes of finding a better strategic or tactical choice. 
Throughout its relatively short history, Honda has welcomed paradox as a way to promote critical thinking and reassess the so-called common wisdom, shaping new responses to ingrained expectations. As one Honda executive put it: "Waigaya to me means perpetual dissatisfaction. At our company, self-satisfaction is the enemy." The value of this system to a multinational organization is immeasurable. 
Nothing is more important for global companies today than having the dexterity to be simultaneously local and international, to swiftly respond to regional preferences while scaling operating tactics and manufacturing improvements around the world. And as Honda's success in the international arena demonstrates, this capability is directly linked to unremittingly reexamining with every new automobile model - more broadly, with every new undertaking what is already believed to be true.
<h3>3. Robots? Not so fast.</h3>
Even as most major industrial corporations view robots and other forms of automation as the best way to reduce costs and maintain productivity, Honda prefers a different path. Honda's factories are purposefully the most labor intensive in the auto industry, employing robots only in areas that are dangerous or otherwise obviously less fit for humans than machines. 
Honda believes that assemblers become disengaged and their enthusiasm for their jobs and, by extension, local innovation is muted by the presence of machines whose sole purpose is to build cars cheaper and faster than humans. 
As Honda sees it, that output and quality standards are too often set to the levels that the technology can achieve and rather than the boundless creativity of human imagination. Consequently, to enhance performance in a local facility, a new piece of equipment would have to be purchased, instead of a new potentially revolutionary process invented. "Once you automate, you're incapable of further improvement," said Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research, paraphrasing Honda's perspective.
<h3>4. Put an engineer in the hot seat.</h3>
Since Honda's founding in 1949 all of the company's CEOs (including the father of the company, Soichiro Honda) have been engineers, veterans of Honda's prized autonomous research and development unit. That's an extraordinary record: Conventional wisdom among multinationals holds that the most effective chief executives are specialists in marketing, sales, or perhaps accounting - anything but engineering. 
As a result, even CEOs in technologically based industries, like pharmaceuticals or computer hardware and software, tend to know little about designing or manufacturing the products that they sell or managing the global supply chain or factory footprint. That's often why CEOs favor centralization in which their most loyal lieutenants near headquarters oversee distributed operations, acting as both a trusted proxy and informant for the chief executive. 
Reared in R&amp;D, Honda CEOs' strengths lie in product and process innovation, primarily in designing new vehicle models and features and in conceiving fresh techniques for building them faster and better. Consequently, their success as managers is measured not by quarter-to-quarter results but instead by how well they cultivate individual creativity throughout the organization and how well they disburse Honda's unique corporate culture to its decentralized localization strategy to produce continuous innovation.
<h3>5. Focus on factory flexibility.</h3>
Unlike other manufacturers, Honda can seamlessly produce multiple autos on a single assembly line, one after another, and switch a line over to a newly designed vehicle within hours. By contrast, it can take months for Honda's rivals to retool a factory for a new vehicle. 
One way Honda achieves this is through in-house engineering co-located at each major production facility, serving as an independent operation that is focused solely on local needs. Any problems that arise in the flexible factory can be addressed immediately by this team - which at most companies resides near headquarters and reports to corporate top executives - ensuring that the steady stream of automobiles going through the line is not impeded. 
Such an efficient and nimble factory is the Holy Grail for all manufacturers and Honda has earned high marks from auto analysts for its ability to deftly navigate this challenge. In globalization terms, the advantage Honda gains is in being able to alter production and capacity of individual models at a moment's notice, depending on local sales trends and the success of competitive brands.
Honda invented the flexible factory through an innovation known as synchronized engineering: all of the vehicles coming into a factory's assembly zones share common designs, such as similar locations and installation techniques for functions like brakes or transmission. As a result, assemblers are agnostic about which car they are building because in the factory only small variations differentiate, say, an Odyssey from an Accord V6.
Jeffrey Rothfeder is an award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief at International Business Times. His latest book is "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Honda-Inside-Innovative-Company/dp/1591844738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406556431&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Driving+Honda%3A+Inside+The+World%27s+Most+Innovative+Car+Company">Driving Honda: Inside The World's Most Innovative Car Company</a>."

5 Brilliant Strategies That Make Honda One Of The World's Most Innovative Companies

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Honda, a company most famous for its award-winning line of automobiles, motorcycles, and home improvement equipment, is entering into some very unfamiliar territory - private jets. After nearly 30 years of development, the HondaJet marks the company's entry into the <a href="http://www.gama.aero/files/GAMA%202013%20Databook-Updated-LowRes.pdf" target="_blank">$23 billion-a-year general aviation industry</a>. When it enters service, the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/06/18/the-4-5-million-commute/" target="_blank">$4.5 million </a>North Carolina-produced HondaJet will compete in the very light jet segment of the market against already-established models, such as Embraer's Phenom 100 and Cessna's Citation Mustang. According to the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/honda-shows-business-jet-japan-085546216.html" target="_blank">AP's Yuri Kageyama</a>, Honda already has 100 orders for the jet - on sale now in the US and Europe - with deliveries set to begin later this year.To show off its latest mobility offering, Honda is taking the jet on a world tour that kicked off this week with a ceremony at Tokyo's Haneda Airport."To offer personal mobility in the skies was the dream of Soichiro Honda and the dream of us Honda men," Honda president Takanobu Ito told the press in Tokyo. "Today is a symbolic day."Honda Aircraft CEO Michimasa Fujino revealed a truly fascinating tidbit of information at the ceremony - the nose design of the jet was inspired by a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo high heels he encountered at a duty free shop while on vacation in Hawaii.According the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/04/23/hondajet-kicks-off-world-tour-in-japan/" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>, Fujino told the press that he was inspired by the designer footwear because it represented beauty, comfort, and functionality.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Designer heels aside, it will also feature one of the most unique engine layouts in civil aviation, with two GE Honda HF120 turbofans mounted on top of its wings. This design eschews the conventional business jet layout that calls for engines to be mounted at the rear of the fuselage.By dispersing much of the engine's noise away from the fuselage, the jet will save passengers from suffering the same ear-shattering din as those unfortunate enough to be seated in the last few rows of other rear-engined aircraft. <a href="http://www.hondajet.com/pdf/tech_papers/NC_vol%202_CS4_HondaJet_Kym15May.pdf" target="_blank">According to the company,</a> the over-wing engine design also gives the cabin greater usable space by removing the interior superstructure needed to support the engines. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Flickr/OVER 1 MILLION VIEWS" title_caption="An Embraer Phenom jet." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5539739f69beddb50f834ca7-960/embraer-phenom-skitch.jpg"></div></div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/radiation-laced-drone-found-japanese-office-2015-4">A small drone was found on the roof of the Japanese prime minister's office - and it was laced with radiation</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="BvMWJvdDplIw-tgvtvXPhz6w7QdvH3C9" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

You Searched For "Soichiro Honda" and got 8 results

7 People Who Were “Born To Inspire”

Richa Sharma

Check out the $230 million factory in North Carolina where Honda builds its private jet

Benjamin Zhang

Everyone who thinks Tesla is a tech company is completely wrong - Tesla should aspire to be Honda

Matthew DeBord

Honda explains why a Super Bowl ad is worth every dollar

Lara O'Reilly

We flew in Honda's new $4.9 million private jet - here's what it was like

Emma Fierberg,Benjamin Zhang

I flew on Honda's new $4.5 million private jet and it's an absolute gamechanger

Benjamin Zhang

5 Brilliant Strategies That Make Honda One Of The World's Most Innovative Companies

Jeffrey Rothfeder, Driving Ho…

Honda's incredible new private jet took 30 years to develop and is designed to look like a woman's shoe

Benjamin Zhang

Popular Keywords

Buying Guides