Car Symbols
This page lists of the various symbols in the Car Symbols group.
Car manufactures logos and symbols and their meaning from all over the world.
Find out what's the origin of your favorite automobile brand symbol.
Symbols in this group:
Aston Martin Symbol
The history of the Aston Martin logo is actually unclear. The emblem is currently composed by a pair of white wings, outlined by a black line, with the words “Aston Martin” in white over a green rectangle on top of the wings. In the logo, the rectangle is in plain white, instead of green, and the words “Aston Martin” are repeated and placed underneath the drawing. However, it hasn’t always been that way since the company was formed.
Cadillac Logo
Cadillac's new logo loses its laurel wreath which adorns the fleet of vehicles from 1999 until 2013.
Genesis Motor Logo
Genesis is the luxury vehicle division of the South Korean vehicle manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group.
Honda Motors
Honda Motor Company comes from Japan, being established in 1948, they make mostly vehicles like cars and bikes.
Infiniti
Infiniti is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company. Infiniti officially started selling vehicles on November 8, 1989 in North America. The marketing network for Infiniti-branded vehicles now includes over 230 dealers in over 15 countries.
Mini
The Mini is a small economy car produced by the English based British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 until 2000.
Mitsubishi Motors Symbol
The logo of three red diamonds, shared with over forty other companies within the keiretsu, predates Mitsubishi Motors itself by almost a century.
Renault Symbo
The first badge of Renault was introduced in 1900 and consisted in Renault brothers' intertwined initials. When the company started mass production in 1906, it adopted a gear-shaped logo with a car inside it. After the World War I the company used a special logo depicting a FT-17 tank. In 1923 it introduced a new circle-shaped badge, which was replaced by the today most widely known "diamond" in 1925.
Tesla
Tesla, Inc. is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, in solar panel manufacturing.
The Alfa Romeo Symbol
The Alfa Romeo logo is split in half and contains the emblems of Alfa's hometown Milan and the one of the great Milanese 'Visconti' family.
The Audi Car Symbol
The four rings of the Audi logo each represent one of four car companies that banded together to create Audi's predecessor company, Auto Union.
The BMW Symbol
The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel evolved from the circular Rapp Motorenwerke company logo, from which the BMW company grew, combined with the blue and white colors of the flag of Bavaria.
The Chevrolet Symbol
The Chevrolet bowtie logo was introduced by company co-founder William C. Durant in late 1913.
The Citroen Symbol
The origin of the logo may be traced back to a trip made by the 22-year-old André Citroën to Łódź city, Poland, where he discovered an innovative design for a chevron-shaped gear used in milling. He bought the patent for its application in steel. Mechanically a gear with helical teeth produces an axial force. By adding a second helical gear in opposition, this force is cancelled. The two chevrons of the logo represent the intermeshing contact of the two.
The Dodge Symbol
For 1932 Dodge cars adopted a leaping ram as the car's hood ornament. Starting with the 1940 models the leaping ram became more streamlined and by 1951 only the head, complete with curving horns, remained. The 1954 model cars were the last to use the ram's head before the rebirth in the 1980s. Dodge trucks adopted the ram as the hood ornament for the 1940 model year with the 1950 models as the last.
The Ferrari Symbol
The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is the Cavallino Rampante ("prancing horse") black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters S F (for Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colors) at the top. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood, and optionally, the shield-shaped race logo on the sides of both front wings, close to the door.
The Hyundai Logo
The Hyundai logo consists of a stylized letter "H" that is enclosed in an oval shape. The oval is divided into two parts, with the top half being dark blue and the bottom half being light blue. The letter "H" is silver and is positioned in the center of the oval.
The Kia Logo
The Kia car manufacturer logo has gone through several changes since the company's inception in 1944. The earliest version of the logo featured the Korean characters for "Kyungsung Precision Industry," which was the name of the company at the time. In 1952, the company changed its name to Kia Industries, and the logo was updated to feature the English letters "KIA" in a bold, sans-serif font.
The Lexus Symbol
The Lexus logo was developed by Molly Designs and Hunter Communications. The final design for the Lexus logo featured a stylized “L” within an oval, and according to Toyota, was rendered using a precise mathematical formula.
The Mazda Car Symbol
A redesigned Mazda symbol was introduced in 1997. It's a stylized, winged "M" meant to show Mazda stretching its wings for the future. The wings are also symbolic of the Zoroastrian - Mazda - Guardian Angel.
The Opel Symbol
The origin of the lightning in the current (2012) Opel logo lies in the truck Opel Blitz (German "Blitz" = English "lightning"), which had been a commercial success, widely used also within the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany's military.
The Peugeot Symbol
The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles.
The Porsche Symbol
Porsche's company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Württemberg of former Weimar Germany, which had Stuttgart as its capital and became part of Baden-Württemberg after the political consolidation of West Germany in 1949.
The Rolls-Royce Symbo
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited was created as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG in 1998 after BMW licensed the rights to the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo from Vickers PLC and the acquired the rights to the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grill shape trademarks from Volkswagen AG.
The Rover Car Symbol
Rover was a British automotive marque used between 1904 and 2005. It was launched as a bicycle maker called Rover Company in 1878, before manufacturing cars in 1904. The brand used the iconic Viking longship as its logo.
The Seat Symbol
In March 1999 at the Geneva Motor Show, SEAT presented a modern stylised logo, more rounded compared to the last one and with the use of the silver colour on a red background — instead of the previous blue — symbolising respectively the rational and the emotional.
The Subaru Symbol
Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster (M45, or "The Seven Sisters"), which in turn inspires the Subaru logo and alludes to the companies that merged to create FHI.
The Toyota Car Symbol
In 1936, Toyota entered the passenger car market with its Model AA and held a competition to establish a new logo emphasizing speed for its new product line. After receiving 27,000 entries, one was selected that additionally resulted in a change of its moniker to "Toyota" from the family name "Toyoda". The new name was believed to sound better, and its eight-stroke count in the Japanese language was associated with wealth and good fortune. The original logo no longer is found on its vehicles, but remains the corporate emblem used in Japan.
Toyota TRD Pro
This means that you can have special upgrades for your car and stereotypes like TRD off road or TRD sport.
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