Hi, how are you, it Zohair from PetrolHead. Now every car brand in the world has it’s own logo. Sometimes you can actually guess what these logos mean. Like Jaguar. Now some brands just write their name on the badge like Ford, BMW, Bugatti. But some are a bit weirder. So here’s my list of the weirdest car logo and their hidden meaning.
- Load of Bull
Lamborghini has an awesome logo. It’s a raging bull on a gold shield. But why is it a bull? Well lots of Lamborghinis are named after bulls like the Miura, the Murciélago and the Gallardo. They’re actually all breeds of fighting bulls from Spain. But that’s not the reason for having the bull on the logo. The logo actually comes from a zodiac symbol, you know like a star sign or a horoscope. Now this is because Ferruccio Lamborghini (the man who actually started Lamborghini) was big into his zodiac signs for some reason. And his star sign was Taurus which is the sign of the bull. Now Ferruccio decided to use it on his cars and a bull is a pretty cool animal to stick on your car, isn’t it, better than a sheep or a pig.
2. BMW
The BMW looks like someone just wrote BMW on a dinner plate and added some blue bits for good measure. But this checkered pattern actually has a double meaning behind it. For a start it is the flag of Bavaria which is where BMW was founded and BMW actually stands for Bavaria Motor Works. You see the checkered pattern also looks a little bit like a propeller spinning against the sky. BMW actually never meant for it to mean this, but they did make engines for aeroplanes back in the day. And some people do say that it’s meant to signify that, but it’s just a coincidence. Now you might also think that the Mercedes logo is inspired by a propeller and it is, sort of. The three points on the famous Mercedes star actually represents Land, sea and air. And this is because Damla (the company that owns Mercedes and started it all) used to build engines for cars, ships and planes.
- Lucky number 7
People might think Americans are greedy and Jeep actually has two logos. One is just the word jeep, the other is two dots and 7 vertical lines
It’s supposed to look like the grill of an old fashion jeep, you know the one that was used in the second world war. There are plenty of stories why Jeep has 7 bars on it’s grill. Some people say it’s because Jeep was the first car to drive on all seven continents. Now that might be true, might be not, who knows. But there’s another reason. Jeeps were originally made as military vehicles by a load of different companies, even Ford used to make Jeeps, back in the war. So to help you tell which one was which, these different models from different manufactures actually had a different number of bars on their grill at the front. Some had nine bars, others had seven.
Well that’s it for today. I will be doing a part 2 as well soon. Thanks for reading
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