| unique characteristic...agreed wholeheartedly
innovare....agree again
I work in a patent firm and I see innovation everyday, according to international standards at least. The Japanese do not hold a backseat to anyone in that field. Bikes coming out of the big three (four) factories are full of innovation that was not plagerized from somewhere. They have been on top of the technical game for so long in that area that there is really no need to plageriize anymore. Besides, old man Honda, bless his soul, was adamant in insisting his engineers innovate. He used to throw spanners at guys trying to copy the Itais in the early years.
Kind of a hard moniker to throw off, but it is not a deserved one any more (besides which, who would they copy in the bike field?????? BMW, Harley, KTM, Vespa?)
Long Live the Duc! |