One of the most reliable names in the automobile market is Honda. Honda has developed popular looking cars that are also reliable and fuel efficient, but here are 7 Things You Don’t Know About: Honda.

1. Though Honda is not the largest car maker in the world, it is the largest engine maker in the world.

2. the Honda company, operating in war torn Japan following World War II, got its start attaching engines to bicycles and marketing them as cheap transportation.

3. Honda didn’t start developing prototype road cars until the 1960s.

4. The first production vehicle built by Honda was the 1963 T360 which was a small pickup truck that also had a panel van version.

5. The popular Honda Civic first came to the United States in 1972.

6. In 1986, the Acura line made Honda the first Japanese automaker to introduce and market a separate luxury line of cars.

7. Honda is also the maker of the first motorcycle equipped with an airbag (the 2006 Gold Wing).

With some of the more sought after car models on the market today, Honda is poised to stay at or near the top of the automobile world for years to come.