Believed to bring the original Honda spirit back, Takanobu Ito was named the new company CEO earlier this week. Ito was the former COO of Automobile Operations and had also served as chief designer for the original all-aluminum chassis of the Honda NSX. He takes on the role that Takeo Fukui vacates. Ito’s role as CEO will have him managing both the core of Honda as well as Honda R&D.Source;
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