TOKYO Soichiro Honda, the blacksmith's son who applied hismechanical gift brilliantly to motorcycles and later to the smallcars that fit the bill of the energy-conscious 1970s, died of liverfailure Monday in a hospital. He was 84.
Honda Motor Co., which he founded in 1946, now is Japan's No. 3car manufacturer. In the United States, where it began production in1982, it ranks fourth, after General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.
Mr. Honda had been top adviser to the company since he retiredas president in 1973, its 25th anniversary under the Honda Motorname.
He was born in central Japan, the son of a blacksmith, and sawhis first car in 1913, when he was 8. It …
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