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Honda Gold Wing

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The Gold Wing is Honda's line of touring motorcycles, built with a shaft final drive and a flat opposed engine. It was introduced at the Cologne Motorcycle Show in October 1974, grew from a 999 cc flat-four to a 1,832 cc flat-six by 2001, and has sold more than 640,000 units, most of them in the United States. Gold Wings were assembled in Marysville, Ohio, from 1980 until 2010, and production then moved to Kumamoto, Japan. Wikipedia describes six generations, from the GL1000 to the completely redesigned model of 2018. This site lists a page for every model year in the span covered here, each focused on what changed in that year, grouped into 6 generations: the first generation, GL1000 (1974 to 1979 model years); the second generation, GL1100 (1980 to 1983 model years); the third generation, GL1200 (1984 to 1987 model years); the fourth generation, GL1500 (1988 to 2000 model years); the fifth generation, GL1800 (2001 to 2017 model years); the sixth generation, 2018 GL1800 (2018 model year onward). Each year page links to its generation, to this model page, to the previous model year and to Honda.

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Year
1975 1
Significance
More than 640,000 sold, most of them in the U.S. market 2
Manufacturer or Builder
Honda 1
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Source Wikipedia: Honda Gold WingLead paragraph, manufacturertier 2
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The Honda Gold Wing is a series of touring motorcycles manufactured by Honda.
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1. First Generation Gold Wing Designed as Flagship High-Speed Tourer, Gold Wing Stories, Honda Global
  • 1975 story, sales timeline paragraph
    In 1975, the long-awaited sales of the GL1000 in the U.S. began.
  • 1975 story, design concept paragraph (Honda's own corporate history of the model)
    The first generation Gold Wing (GL1000), however, was designed as a supersport model, due to the popularity of large-displacement supersport models in the United States.
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2. Honda Gold Wing, Wikipedia
  • The Gold Wing series section, first sentence
    Total sales are more than 640,000, most of them in the U.S. market.
  • In Group: Cruiser and Touring Motorcycles, Lead sentence
    The Honda Gold Wing is a series of touring motorcycles manufactured by Honda.
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Wikipedia: Honda Gold Wing
WikipediaLead paragraph, model summary
Quote, Lead paragraph, model summary
The Honda Gold Wing is a series of touring motorcycles manufactured by Honda.
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