He remembered his grandfather’s stories of Soichiro Honda—a man who stayed in the pits until his fingernails were permanently stained with grease. "Success," Soichiro used to say, "is 99 percent failure."

As Ren pushed the car into a sharp hairpin, the torque-vectoring kicked in, a digital ghost correcting his line. It was the "Joy of Creating" meeting the "Joy of Driving." To the world, this was a sleek piece of engineering. To Ren, it was a legacy of refusing to accept "good enough."

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He remembered his grandfather’s stories of Soichiro Honda—a man who stayed in the pits until his fingernails were permanently stained with grease. "Success," Soichiro used to say, "is 99 percent failure."

As Ren pushed the car into a sharp hairpin, the torque-vectoring kicked in, a digital ghost correcting his line. It was the "Joy of Creating" meeting the "Joy of Driving." To the world, this was a sleek piece of engineering. To Ren, it was a legacy of refusing to accept "good enough." Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovati...

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