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The develpment of car logos/badges

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  • #2
    overdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭overdriver


    Great thread.

    Its interesting how little they've changed in essence though. Most are recognisable now.


  • #3
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    The audi one is my favourite,the four different makes into one.


  • #4
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    grill-01.jpg

    This version of the Fiat logo came about because one night the Top man at Fiat ( that Agnelli fella ) was landing on the roof of the factory and saw the letters FIAT lit up by ....eh ...up lighters. Anyway this is how his vision translated into an emblem.


  • #5
    VolvoMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭VolvoMan


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    The audi one is my favourite,the four different makes into one.

    The Audi logo has changed again this year to mark the company's centenary:

    new-audi-logo.jpg


  • #6
    sogood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭sogood


    Theres a certain similarity between the VW 1939 logo and the BMW one. is it a German thing or did VW make aeroplanes too, given that the BMW badge is supposed to represent spinning propellor blades against a blue sky?


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  • #7
    Ballykine43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Ballykine43


    At a guess the early VW logo was promoting air cooling.


  • #8
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    Great post. if you look at the alfa one the snake in it originally can be seen eating a baby(!), it got sanitised over the years, the logo on my 156 looks like a flower or maybe fire coming out of the snakes mouth. I prefer the baby eating one, looks baaaad.


  • #9
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    The diamond Mazda logo in 90/91 only last a little while as it was too similar to the renault logo so they made it a bit more rounded


  • #10
    CharlieCroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    The Alfa one still shows the serpant eating a person, its not a flame, its the upper torso and arms of a person


  • #11
    MercMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    CharlieCroker wrote: »
    The Alfa one still shows the serpant eating a person, its not a flame, its the upper torso and arms of a person


    .................correct and the dates are wrong. A lot of the Alfa 75's had the word Milano written on their badges !


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  • #12
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    CharlieCroker wrote: »
    The Alfa one still shows the serpant eating a person, its not a flame, its the upper torso and arms of a person

    Yep, I get that its still a child, but they made it so generic that most people you ask would say its a flower or fire. As an aside google for the starbucks logo, you'd be surprised!


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