The Honda logo is a large “H” appeared as the brand’s badge. The “H” is the first letter in the name of the Honda Motor Company founder Soichiro Honda. 

 The company name is based on the surname of the founder, August Horch. “Horch”, meaning “listen” in German, becomes “Audi” when translated into Latin. 

 For Bentley, the wings on their logo is a symbol of a true legend, or, figuratively speaking, the wings of the celestial. The brand that unites the cars designed for the most jaded audience is simply bound to strive for constant improvement. 

Bayerische Motoren Werke or Bavarian Motor Works – dates back to 1917. BMW emerged from a renaming of the aircraft engine manufacturer Rapp Motorenwerke, located in Munich, the capital of the State of Bavaria in southern Germany. Although the company name changed, the technical equipment, assets, and workforce initially remained the same.

 GM, also known as General Motors Company, is one of the hugest worldwide and the biggest in America vehicle -manufacturing corporations. It was established in 1908 and today the brand has production plants in more than 30 countries across the globe. 

 The latest edition of Chrysler’s famous winged logo sees a pair of elegant silver wings matched with a Chrysler inscription on deep blue background in the middle. Despite the elimination of historic wax seal sign, the logo represents the company’s legacy through the trademark silver wings and looks sophisticated and modern thanks to graceful shape and noble silver color. 

 The famous stylish Henry Ford signature is embedded into the oval. The use of blue color in the Ford logo symbolizes strength, excellence, and grace of the company, whereas the white color depicts nobility, elegance, and purity. Henry Ford loved his model T and produced millions before expanding his line into other models.

Ferrari’s symbol can be traced to the Italian fighter ace Francesco Baracca who painted the black prancing horse onto the fuselage of his plane. He recorded 34 kills and was killed in 1918, becoming a national hero.

In 1923, a car-loving Italian from Modena called Enzo Ferrari met the mother and father of Baracca. Baracca’s mother told Ferrari to paint the prancing horse on his cars as it would give him good luck. Ferrari did so and added the splash of yellow, the color of his birthplace, Modena.

Hyundai logo-  First, it acts as a simple “H” representing the Hyundai brand. However, it’s also a silhouette of two people shaking hands. The two people represented by this silhouette are the company and the customer in a mutually-harmonious agreement. In other words, the Hyundai logo describes the ideal vision of the company: Providing high-quality service and vehicles to all customers. 

 The famous logo is based on the traditional infinity sign that is well-known to almost everyone. Designers of the emblem decided to use it as an inspiration for the logo because it reflected the inner spirit of every car that was produced under the Infiniti brand. The infinity symbol is used by mathematicians to represent mathematical infinity.  

 The Isuzu logo is a wordmark written in red caps with symmetrical ‘S” and “Z”. The earlier logo version featured two vertical pillars that symbolized excellence and were to emphasize the high quality of all Isuzu products.

The bright logo design has made Isuzu products recognizable around the world. The company’s signature font and color are reflective of its infinite thirst for perfection and integrity.

 There are actually two Jaguar symbols! Both emphasize the “grace, elegance, performance, power, and the ambition to leap forward” that define the Jaguar brand. Perhaps the most iconic Jaguar emblem is the Jaguar Leaper or Leaping Jaguar. But there’s also another: the Roaring Jaguar: 

 The KIA Motors Corporation is the oldest South Korean car maker. Its headquarters are located in Seoul.

One can roughly translate the name of the Republic of Korea car company KIA as “Asia introduced to the world” or “came from Asia” (KI – a Korean word meaning “shown to the world” and A is pointing at Asia).

Many people have hinted at possible meanings behind the design in the absence of official statements on logo symbolism:

Logo Color — One theory it’s an homage to the official British Racing Green  Another theory is that it represents nature, 

Oval Shape —  The oval shape was inspired by a tin of fish that logo designer Maurice Wilks was eating during the design process.

Zigzags — One theory is that these little zigzags are an abstract representation of the Land Rover slogan “Above and Beyond.”

 Like most of the luxury car brands, Maserati has found its symbol in the very beginning. The iconic Neptune Trident has been on the brand’s logo since the 1920s, and by today it became the symbol synonymous to “creme de la creme” of the automobile industry. 

 They stood for Mazda Motor Manufacturer and symbolized the three mountains of Hiroshima. It was later replaced with another stylized black M letter placed inside a circle. In 1975 Mazda started using the brand’s name as a logo again, but designed a custom font for that matter. In 1991 the company adopted a completely new emblem that represented a sun and a flame placed on red background. 

he star has a double meaning for the company — it was adopted in the 1920s, as a tribute to the Daimler family, whose father used a traditional five-pointed star as a signature, and put it on all the postcards he sent. The traditional contours were modified to make a three-pointed Star as a representation of the family’s intentions — to motorize the whole world on land, water, and in the air. Three directions, three points, three aims. 

 The three diamonds have a lot of Japanese history behind them. The founder of the company blended the family crests of two Japanese clans to make the Mitsubishi logo. The Tosa Clan crest is made of three oak leaves positioned similar to how the Mitsubishi logo diamonds are positioned, and the Iwasaki family crest uses three stacked rhombuses. Combining these two elements, you get the modern Mitsubishi logo. 

 Subaru was the first automobile company to use the Japanese word for its name. The name of the brand, Subaru, can be translated from Japanese as the Pleiades, or a group of stars in the Taurus constellation.
The Subaru logo has always been based on the brand’s name and always depicted six stars 

 There are three ovals in the Toyota logo another event combined in a horizontally symmetrical configuration. The two perpendicular ovals inside the larger oval represent the heart of the customer and the heart of the company. They are overlapped to represent a mutually beneficial relationship and trust between each other. 

 Volkswagen – “people’s car” – reflected in its story the history of Germany of the XXth century.

Looking at the first two versions of the logo, one can already guess that the history of the Volkswagen Company is related to Adolf Hitler.

 In 1927, the first car of the make Volvo together with its logo appeared. The circle with an arrow loomed on the nose of the car: this is, simultaneously, a symbol of iron (because “the real Swedish car” was built from “genuine Swedish metal”), and of the Roman god of war Mars, and of the male principle. 

Porsche is the marque, which values traditions and mixes them with innovations. All of the luxury cars are the brand feature timeless elegance and beauty outside and the latest technologies inside. The same is with the company’s logo — historic legacy is enclosed into a frame of style, power, and exclusiveness.

The Porsche logo was introduced in 1952 and hasn’t changed much since then, as it had everything the brand needed — uniqueness, grace, and memorability..

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