honda historians required!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda#Company_history

the civic wan't the first honda automobile sold in the u.s. can someone
please fix this wikipedia page?

jim beam > wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda#Company_history

> the civic wan't the first honda automobile sold in the u.s. can someone
> please fix this wikipedia page?

I think you are paraphrasing the article incorrectly. The phrasing looks
accurate to me. Wikipedia isn't the first place I've seen that narration.

I knew a guy that was about 6'2"/250 pounds that owned the first officially
imported US Honda model. Looked a little odd.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

wrote:
> jim beam > wrote:
>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda#Company_history
>
>
>>the civic wan't the first honda automobile sold in the u.s. can someone
>>please fix this wikipedia page?
>
>
> I think you are paraphrasing the article incorrectly. The phrasing looks
> accurate to me. Wikipedia isn't the first place I've seen that narration.
>
> I knew a guy that was about 6'2"/250 pounds that owned the first officially
> imported US Honda model. Looked a little odd.
>
maybe, but the first model imported wasn't the civic was it? and it
would be good to get some more car history in there - it's currently
very motorcycle-centric!

jim beam wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda#Company_history
>
> the civic wan't the first honda automobile sold in the u.s. can someone
> please fix this wikipedia page?

The Civic is the first Honda I remember seeing or hearing of in the US.

In article >,
Sparky Spartacus > wrote:

> jim beam wrote:
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda#Company_history
> >
> > the civic wan't the first honda automobile sold in the u.s. can someone
> > please fix this wikipedia page?
>
> The Civic is the first Honda I remember seeing or hearing of in the US.

And this is why a wikipedia is junk. "It's what I know..." when all
you know is bupkus.

The first Honda car I saw was the Honda 600. Imported in the early 70's
600cc engine , 2cyl I believe, not sure though. Punch in honda 600 on
whatever your internet is on . Scott

The wikipedia entry cites www.honda.com . Whence any gearhead can look up
the history of Honda in the U.S. and see that some sort of Honda car was
available in the late 1960s.

You don't like the wikipedia entry, Jim, then do the research and figure out
how to change it yourself.

Elle wrote:
> The wikipedia entry cites www.honda.com . Whence any gearhead can look up
> the history of Honda in the U.S. and see that some sort of Honda car was
> available in the late 1960s.
>
> You don't like the wikipedia entry, Jim, then do the research and figure out
> how to change it yourself.

what's got you today elle?

the reason i don't is because it's not something i know well. i've seen
others here write with much more confidence and authority on this topic.
just plagarizing stuff off the net is not my idea of valuable content.
thanks for asking.

"jim beam" > wrote
> Elle wrote:
> > The wikipedia entry cites www.honda.com . Whence any gearhead can look
up
> > the history of Honda in the U.S. and see that some sort of Honda car was
> > available in the late 1960s.
> >
> > You don't like the wikipedia entry, Jim, then do the research and figure
out
> > how to change it yourself.
>
> what's got you today elle?
> the reason i don't is because it's not something i know well. i've seen
> others here write with much more confidence and authority on this topic.
> just plagarizing stuff off the net is not my idea of valuable content.
> thanks for asking.

Send an email to Wikipedia or whomever wrote that entry and say you noticed
a discrepancy between the wikipedia entry and the www.honda.com site, so
what's going on?

And no, I won't do it, because that would do you a disservice. This is "an
opportunity" for you...

Elmo P. Shagnasty > wrote:

> A wikipedia is nothing but the Usenet, distilled into a concentrated,
> putrid form, full of the same crap from know-nothing people but stuck
> all in one place for the mass of sheeple to conveniently browse in a
> timely fashion.

I don't understand why wikipedia even exists. It's a distillation of a
Google Search, in some sense, but whoever gets there first is the
authority, unless challenged. The only intelligence there is plagarism.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5