S2 Ep3: The Golden Era of JDM: Honda Hacked The Gas Crisis

About this episode

This episode explores the impact of the gas crisis on Japanese automakers, particularly Honda's innovations.

This week, we're exploring how Japanese automakers fared during the gas crisis of the early 1970's. What led to them being in the right place at the right time? How did they expand across the globe so seamlessly? And what makes Honda's CVCC engine so revolutionary for the time? All of this and more on this week's episode.

People in this episode

Host: Donut Media

Topics covered

• Japanese automakers
• gas crisis
• Honda CVCC engine
• automotive history
• global expansion

Keywords

• JDM
• Honda
• gas crisis
• CVCC engine
• automotive history
• Japanese automakers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Honda

Places: Japan

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