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About Honda

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., commonly known as Honda, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered at the Toranomon Alcea Tower in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

On the show โ€” 11 mentions total

We had Asimo, who was built by Honda. He came on QI, and during the warm up, I did a little dance with him. He kind of just follows your dance patterns, I think.

from No Such Thing As Chariots in Space, 2016-12-09 at 00:06:49 ยท read transcript

Other times Honda came up

  1. Yeah. That's it. Mazda in 2011 had to recall 52,000 cars because there's a spider which is called the Yellow Sack Spider who loved the smell of gasoline. They were attracted to the car and they would go into the vents and they would just live there. Then the webs that they would build up around it would mess up the pipes and overheat the car.

    No Such Thing As I Love I Love Lucy, 2024-10-10 ยท listen

  2. I'm sorry, I've been so busy trying to think of of the name for a snake that would live in a car. Okay. Where'd you go? A Honda? Yeah. That is great. I mean, it was my car, so it works on that level. Oh, shit. A Honda. For God's sake, be. This is genius. I meant that. I meant that. That is it. That is all of our facts. Thank you so much for listening.

    No Such Thing As I Love I Love Lucy, 2024-10-10 ยท listen

  3. I didn't know about Volvos in particular, but I knew that vaguely vibrations help babies stop crying. Yeah. Honda announced in 2022, a big, you know, Japanese car giant, they had developed a car specifically to stop babies crying. Yeah. It was a small, plush toy car.

    No Such Thing As Chekhov's Volcano, 2026-06-04 ยท listen

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