Ok, stupid question. In Japan, where the people speak and write Japanese, why is it that all Honda cars have an English "H" on the car as the badging? I mean why not the equilivent symbol in Japanese?

I understand the Acura and the A because they are Acura is not in Japan.

The H really confuses me. Thanks

 

Why does Honda use the word "Honda"? Not the "wenwonewinf" japanese equalivant.....

 

Because the official name of the company is Honda - even in Japan...

 

Why are these Japanese companies spelling their company names in English then? Makes no sense...If I open a shop in Atlanta I wouldnt use Kanji lettering...no one would understand it. Maybe its different over there???

when you see McDonalds Signs in other Countries...they are spelled in the countries language.

 

I knew that, just was making a point to the original post.

 

hey losers..........joke..........thats because they want to appeal to a world-wide market.........and what is the universal language? nuff said

 

The girl I am dating speaks Japanese fluently(mother is Japanese).I asked a similar question and she basically told me that aside from car manafacturers names that a lot of tech terms car,computer and electronic stuff are in English.If you ever watch an Options2 vid notice a lot of it is in English.It is hard to catch due to their accents but they use a good bit of English along with some of the titles on the screen.

 

also, most car manufactuerers names/symbols are considered trademarked 'icons' such as the nike swoosh, so its an icon, not a name or 'H'

 

like when i saw the video's of the Spoon cars and such..
"siwabislkdjfldfh SPOON lajhfldjlfdjalfj TURBO alkdjfldjfaljlfjdla NOS YO! LKDJLFAJLFDSLF"