1. Honda
Being as though Honda was not yet featured on our list, and we’re almost certain their ranking at our number one spot comes as no surprise to you. Honda may not be the oldest motorcycle manufacturer, but they sure as hell are the most successful! Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda, may not have felt it at the time, but he was extremely lucky for Toyota to decline his presentation of the design for his piston rings. The rejection urged him to start a company of his own. The Dream D-Type was considered to be his first real motorcycle and was released back in 1949. His next production—the E-Type Dream—was his first big seller. After that, the rest is history, as they say. Honda literally has too many overly successful and iconic models to name! Their Super Cub, alone—reaching over 60 million sales!—probably tops the combined sales of many other motorcycle manufacturers’ entire lineup! Four years after their debut of the CB750 they were flying off the dealership floors, selling a minimum of 60,000 annually! Even with sales figures being scarce, it doesn’t take rocket science to conclude that Honda is the best-selling motorcycles of all time!
