Honda has announced that its president and CEO Takahiro Hachigo will step down from his post on April 1. He will be succeeded by Toshihiro Mibe, the automaker’s head of research and development. The announcement …
Honda has announced that its president and CEO Takahiro Hachigo will step down from his post on April 1. He will be succeeded by Toshihiro Mibe, the automaker’s head of research and development. The announcement of Mibe’s appointment was made by the automaker last Friday.
Mibe, who has been president of the R&D unit since 2019, joined the company in 1987 and previously had stints in engine development and the brand’s powertrain and drivetrain business.
Speaking at the event, Mibe called for Honda’s “major transformation at great speed,” in line with the company’s direction to haveas well as fuel-cell cars contributing to two-thirds of its sales by 2030. “We would consider using external insight or potential alliances among other actions to make decisions without hesitation,” he said.
During his six years as CEO, Hachigo sought to simplify the vehicle development process by combining some operations for cars and motorcycles, and slashing costs by streamlining the brand’s model line-up and consolidating factories, both domestically and overseas. He also expanded aAnthony Lim Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.
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