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Car Logos

July 27, 2015 by Julian James

There are so many car logos out there that it can be hard to find what you’re looking for. That’s why we decided to put together this page devoted to the many car logos out there.

For each one we have provided an image of the logo as well as a link to further information, which can be found further down the page along with a larger image. This page is constantly updated to keep it up to date.

Feel free to use the images of the emblems as you wish, though remember they are all trademarked by the various manufacturers.

We hope you find this page helpful. If you notice any logos missing or think there is anything we should add then let us know in the comments section at the bottom. Thanks for helping keep this page the most up-to-date automobile logos resource on the web!

Abarth logo
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Acura logo
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Arash logo
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alfa-romeo-logo
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Ariel Motor Company logo
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Ascari logo
Ascari
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Aston Martin logo
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Audi logo
Ascari
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Bentley logo
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BMW logo
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Bowler logo
Bowler
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Briggs Automotive Mono logo
Briggs Automotive
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Bristol Cars logo
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Brooke Cars logo
Brooke Cars
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Bugatti logo
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Buick logo
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cadillac-logo
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Chery logo
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Chevrolet logo
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Chevron Cars logo
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Chrysler logo
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Citroen logo
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Corvette logo
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Dacia logo
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Daihatsu logo
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Datsun logo
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Dodge logo
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Donkervoort logo
Donkervoort
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Ferrari logo
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Fiat logo
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Fisker Automotive logo
Fisker Automotive
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Ford logo
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Ford Performance Vehicles logo
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Ginetta logo
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GMC logo
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Hennessey logo
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Holden logo
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Honda logo
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Hyundai logo
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Infiniti logo
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Isuzu logo
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Jaguar logo
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Jeep logo
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Joss logo
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Kamaz logo
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Kia logo
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Koenigsegg logo
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KTM logo
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Lamborghini logo
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Lancia logo
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Land Rover logo
Land Rover
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Lexus logo
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Lincoln logo
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Lister logo
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Lotus logo
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Mahindra logo
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Maruti Suzuki logo
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Maserati logo
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Mastretta logo
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Mazda logo
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McLaren logo
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Mercedes-Benz logo
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MG logo
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MINI logo
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Mitsubishi logo
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Morgan logo
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Nissan logo
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Noble Automotive logo
Noble Automotive
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Opel logo
Opel
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Pagani logo
Pagani
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Perodua logo
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Peugeot logo
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Porsche logo
Porsche
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Proton logo
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Radical Sportscars logo
Radical Sportscars
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Ram logo
Ram
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Renault logo
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Roewe logo
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Rolls-Royce logo
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RUF Automobile logo
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Saab logo
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Saleen logo
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Scion logo
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SEAT logo
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Skoda logo
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Smart logo
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SRT logo
SRT
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Ssangyong logo
Ssangyong
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Subaru logo
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Superformance logo
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Suzuki logo
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Tata Motors
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tesla-logo
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Toyota logo
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TVR logo
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Ultima Sports logo
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Vauxhall logo
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Venturi logo
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Volkswagen logo
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Volvo logo
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Westfield Sportscars logo
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Wiesmann logo
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Zenvo logo
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Bigger car logos and extra information

Abarth

Large Abarth logo
The Abarth logo shows a shield carrying a scorpion set over a background of yellow and red. The scorpion was chosen because Scorpio was the star sign of the founder Carlo Abarth. The top of the shield features the brand name with a border in the colors of the Italian flag, the firm’s home country.

Acura

Large Acura logo
The Acura logo is a stylized letter ‘A’ (for Acura) which is also meant to have resemblance to the letter ‘H’, for the brand’s parent company Honda.

Arash

Large Arash logo
The Arash logo shows a diving peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on earth. The brand name and the bird image are set in gold on a black background with a gold border completing the shield.

Alfa Romeo

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The Alfa Romeo logo is circular with a blue border containing the words ‘Alfa Romeo’. In the center are two heraldic symbols linked to the city of Milan, Italy, where the firm was founded. The red on white cross comes from the city’s emblem while the crowned serpent eating a Moor is a Biscione. The Biscione used to be set on a white background, but this was removed during an update to the logo in 2015. The type face was also changed.

Ariel

Large Ariel Motor Company logo
The Ariel Motor Company logo is a stylized letter ‘A’ cut out of a red circle.

Ascari

Large Ascari logo
The Ascari Cars logo features two strokes, a grey one set above and to the left of a red one.

Aston Martin

Large Aston Martin logo
The Aston Martin features a pair of wings overlayed with the firm’s name. The wings are in silver while the name is set on a green background. The wings have been a part of Aston’s logo since 1927.

Audi

Large Audi logo
The Audi logo features four overlapping silver rings, which represent the four car firms that joined to create Audi in its original incarnation as Auto Union.

Bentley

Large Bentley logo
The Bentley logo features the spread wings and tail of a bird with a white on black ‘B’ in a central oval. The wings were used as the firm built aircraft in the First World War. The wings on Bentley logos do not have the same number of feathers, and in the past different numbers have been used for different cars. The standard logo has ten feathers on the left and 11 on the right.

BMW

Large BMW logo
The BMW logo is a circle with a black border containing the brand-name. The central area is divided into blue and white quarter circles, the colors of Bavaria, where the firm is based. The lettering and original design were inherited from the logo of the Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft firm from which BMW descends.

Bowler

Large Bowler logo
The Bowler logo features the brand name in silver in a black oval shape with two silver crescents on the left hand side.

Briggs Automotive

Large Briggs Automotive logo
The Briggs Automotive Company use the name of their sold car the Mono as their logo, with the letter ‘m’ stylized to resemble tire tracks.

Bristol

Large Bristol Cars logo
The Bristol Cars logo features a circle with a black and white border carrying the brand name. Inside a central red circle is a shield depicting a ship on the ocan, a castle and the white cliffs on the south coast of England.

Brooke Cars

Large Brooke Cars logo
The Brooke Cars logo features the name of the firm on a parallelogram set on top of a black and white shield-like design with sections removed.

Bugatti

Large Bugatti logo
The Bugatti logo features the brand name in white with black shadow set on a red oval background. The oval contains a grey border with red elipses. Above the brand name is a stylized version of the the letters EB, which stand for Ettore Bugatti, the firm’s founder.

Buick

Large Buick logo
The Buick logo features three shields inside a circular border. It is a simplified version of an earlier Buick logo which featured the three shields in red, white and blue, with a deer head, sash and cross on each shield. Today just the sashes remain.

Cadillac

Large Cadillac logo
The Cadillac logo is a shield based on the coat of arms of the French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who was the founder of the city of Detroit, Michigan.

Chery

Large Chery logo
The Chery logo is a stylized version of the letters ‘CAC’, which stand for Chery Automobile Company. The A used to be more distinctive and cut through the bottom half of the oval.

Chevrolet

Large Chevrolet logo
The Chevrolet logo features a gold ‘bow tie’ cross with a silver border. Its origins are a subject of debate. One theory is that is is from a design co-founder William C. Durant once saw on wallpaper in France. Another is that it is based on the cross on the Swiss flag, where co-founder Louis Chevrolet’s parents were from. Yet another is that it is based on a logo of the Coalettes coal company.

Chevron

Large Chevron Cars logo
The Chevron logo is a stylized chevron in yellow with the brand’s name in black.

Chrysler

Large Chrysler logo
The Chrysler division logo features a winged design with ‘Chrysler’ in the center. This logo was introduced after the firm’s parent company, Chrysler, merged with Fiat.

Citroen

Large Citroen logo
The citroen logo is a 3D metallic version of the firm’s previous double-chevron logos. The chevrons are derived from a special gear used in milling.

Corvette

Large Corvette logo
The Corvette logo features two crossed flags. On the right is a black and white chequered flag like that used in racing. On the left, a red flag contains the logo of Chevrolet, Corvette’s parent company, and a fleur-de-lis which was on founder Louis Chevrolet’s family crest.

Dacia

Large Dacia logo
The Dacia logo features a stylized letter ‘D’ on its side.

Daihatsu

Large Daihatsu logo
The Daihatsu logo is a stylized white letter D in a red rectangle.

Datsun

Large Datsun logo
The Datsun logo is a derivative of the earlier Datsun logo. The blue circle behind the Datsun name used to be red, representative of the Japanese flag. The original elements are now surrounded by a 3D silver border.

Dodge

Large Dodge logo
The Dodge logo is currently the word ‘Dodge’ with two inclined red stripes remeniscent of tire tracks.

Donkervoort

Large Donkervoort logo
The Donkervoort logo features a red winged badge with a central area carrying the brand name.

Ferrari

Large Ferrari logo
The Ferrari logo features the firm’s famous prancing horse on a yellow background above the brand name. The top of the logo is bordered by the colors of the Italian flag: green, white and red.

Fiat

Large Fiat logo
The Fiat logo is a badge with the brand’s name on a red and black striped background, surrounded by a 3D silver border, and created to look like a car grille.

Fisker

Large Fisker logo
The Fisker logo is a circular badge with an orange and blue center surrounded by a white border containing the brand name. The orange represents the setting sun into the blue of the Pacific ocean. Two silver vertical stripes in the center represent the company’s co-founders Henrik Fisker and Berhard Koehler.

Ford

Large Ford logo
The Ford logo is the brand name inside a blue oval with a white border, known as the Centennial Blue Oval. The calligraphic font was first created by Childe Harold Wills, an early associate Henry Ford. The oval shape was first used in 1912 and it turned from grey to blue in 1927.

Ford Performance Vehicles

Large Ford Performance Vehicles logo
The Ford Performance Vehicles logo features stylized lettering reading the acronym FPV.

Ginetta

Large Ginetta logo
The Ginetta logo is circular with a stylized letter G in black on an orange background and a grey border.

GMC

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The GMC logo shows the brand’s name in a 3D typeface.

Hennessey

Large Hennessey logo
The Hennessey logo shows the brand’s name in a calligraphic typeface.

Holden

Large Holden logo
The Holden logo depicts a lion with its paw on a globe, set in a red circular badge with a white and red border.

Honda

Large Honda logo
The Honda logo is a stylized letter H.

Hyundai

Large Hyundai logo
The Hyundai logo is, like the Honda logo, a stylized letter H.

Infiniti

Large Infiniti logo
The Infiniti logo is an oval with an inset triangle in the bottom half. The triangle is said to be suggestive of Mount Fuji, the iconic volcano in the firm’s Japanese homeland, as well as a road stretching into the infinite distance.

Isuzu

Large Isuzu logo
The Isuzu logo is the brand name in a distinctive font in red.

Jaguar

Large Jaguar logo
The Jaguar logo features a jaguar leaping from right to left.

Jeep

Large Jeep logo
The Jeep logo is just the brand name in a font similar to Helvetica Bold.

Joss

Large Joss logo
The Joss logo features a simple 3D stylised parallelogram, with the firm’s home country ‘Australia’ engraved on the bottom half.

Kamaz

Large Kamaz logo
The Kamaz logo features a blue horse on a white background.

Kia

Large Kia logo
The Kia logo is a stylized version of the brand name in an oval with a red border.

Koenigsegg

Large Koenigsegg logo
The Koenigsegg logo is based on the shield of the Koenigsegg family, which features in their coat of arms.

KTM

Large KTM logo
The KTM logo is a stylized version of the brand’s name in either orange or black.

Lamborghini

Large Lamborghini logo
The Lamborhini logo features a black shield with a gold ‘raging bull’ in the center, with a gold outline. A bull was chosen as Taurus was the star sign of founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, who was also a fan of bullfighting. Many of the manufacturer’s models are named after famous fighting bulls.

Lancia

Large Lancia logo
The Lancia logo features the brand’s name on a blue shield with a silver border. The name is surrounded by a blue circle, with two inside spikes, representing a steering wheel.

Land Rover

Large Land Rover logo
The Land Rover logo features the firm’s name in a green oval with a double white border. It is said to have been inspired by a pilchard tin, which the designer is claimed to have been eating from when he came up with the idea.

Lexus

Large Lexus logo
The Lexus logo is a stylized letter ‘L’. The brand was created to help Toyota enter the luxury automobile market.

Lincoln

Large Lincoln logo
The Lincoln logo is a derivative of the company’s earlier ‘shield’ logo, which used a coat of arms with a red cross in the iddle and a knight’s helmet at the top.

Lister

Large Lister logo
The Lister logo features a green circle with a yellow center, in which sits three falchion swords. The outside green area carries the brand’s name.

Lotus

Large Lotus logo
The Lotus logo features a green triangle insice a yellow circle. Inside the green triangle is the world Lotus and the letters ACBC, the initials of the firm’s founder Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman, known as Colin Chapman.

Mahindra

Large Mahindra logo
The Mahindra logo is a stylized letter M surrounded by an oval.

Maruti Suzuki

Large Maruti Suzuki logo
The Maruti Suzuki logo combines the logos of Maruti, a stylized winged M, and Suzuki, a stylized S.

Maserati

Large Maserati logo
The Maserati logo is a trident. It is based on the one held by Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, in the Fountain of Neptune which sits in the main square of Bologna, Italy, where the firm was founded.

Mastretta

Large Mastretta logo
The Mastretta logo is a shield made up of the green white and blue of the Italian flag with a chequered flag and inclined stripes, remeniscent of tire marks.

Mazda

Large Mazda logo
The Mazda logo is a 3D silver oval with a stylized winged letter M inside it, which is supposed to represent the firm spreading its wings as it faces the future.

McLaren

Large McLaren logo
The McLaren logo features the brand’s name with a ‘speed’ mark to the top right, which is supposed to represent the vortices created by the rear wing on their racing cars.

Mercedes-Benz

Large Mercedes-Benz logo
The Mercedes-Benz logo is a 3D three-pronged star set inside a circle. It was first used when the sons of company co-founder Gottlieb Daimler told the board their father had once had a star marked above the door of his house, and had told his wife it would one day shine over his own factory as a symbol of prosperity. A four-pronged star was also patented, but only the three-pronged one was ever used. It is also said to represent the three prongs of Daimler’s hopes for motorization “on land, on water and in the air”.

MG

Large MG logo
The MG logo features the brand name inside an octagonal badge.

MINI

Large MINI logo
The MINI logo is a winged badge with the brand’s name in a circular central area.

Mitsubishi

Large Mitsubishi logo
The Mitsubishi logo is a triangle made out of three diamond shapes. The ‘Mitsu’ in the brand’s name is Japanese for ‘three’ (Hishi means water chestunt), and in Japan the word Mitsubishi has long been used to represent the diamond shape.

Morgan

Large Morgan logo
The Morgan logo is a winged badge with the brand’s name set on a blue cross in a central circular area.

Nissan

Large Nissan logo
The Nissan logo is a derivative of the old Nissan logo, which used to feature the brand’s name on a blue rectangle sitting over a red circle, which represents the sun symbol used in the Japanese flag.

Noble

Large Noble Automotive logo
The Noble logo features the brand name underneath the image of a crown, drawn on because of the brand’s use of the word ‘noble’ as a name.

Opel

Large Opel logo
The Opel logo is a 3D circular ring, engraved with the brand name, and with a lightning strike through the middle. The lightning was first used on the badge for the Opel Blitz truck. The German word for Blitz means lightning in English, and the symbol has been used since then.

Pagani

Large Pagani logo
The Pagani logo is an oval silver badge with the brand name embossed across the middle. It features a stylized letter P in the top left. It says ‘Automobili Modena’ along the bottom.

Perodua

Large Perodua logo
The Perodua logo is a stylized letter ‘P’ set in an oval badge using the colors of the Italian flag: green, white and red.

Peugeot

Large Peugeot logo
The Peugeot logo features a lion, and stems back to the mid 19th century when the firm manufactured mainly steel goods and saw blades. The lion represented attributes Peugeot highlighted in the blades, such as strong teeth and the swift cut.

Porsche

Large Porsche logo
The Porsche logo features small shield set inside a second larger shield and is based on the coat of arms of former Weimar Germany’s Free People’s State of Württemberg. The inside one features a prancing horse taken from the coat of arms of the city of Stuttgart, the state’s capital and where Porsche is based. The outside shield comes straight from the Württemberg coat of arms.

Proton

Large Proton logo
The Proton logo features a yellow tiger’s head in a green circle with the brand name above, all set on a dark blue shield with a yellow border. It was first used in the year 2000. The old one was a blue shield with a yellow crescent and fourteen-pointed star, although this was only used on cars in Proton’s domestic market of Malaysia, with exports given different badges.

Radical Sportscars

Large Radical Sportscars logo
The Radical Sportscars logo is a stylized letter R in yellow set on a double-shaded red rectangle with the brand name below.

Ram

Large Ram logo
The Ram logo features a 3D silver Ram’s head on a black shield with a silver border.

Renault

Large Renault logo
The Renault logo is a stylised diamond shape. The shape has been used in its basic current form since 1992.

Roewe

Large Roewe logo
The Roewe logo features a shield with a red and black background and carrying a stylized letter R with two English lions above. The colors and basic shape are the same as that of Rover, which was bought by Roewe’s parent company SAIC Motor in 2006 — although without the rights to the Rover brand name of logo.

Rolls-Royce

Large Rolls-Royce logo
The Rolls-Royce logo comprises two ‘R’s set in a rectangle with the words ‘Rolls’ and ‘Royce’ above and below. A small statue of a woman leaning forward with wings, known as The Spirit of Ecstasy, sits on the bonnet of the firm’s cars but is not used as a logo.

Ruf Automobile

Large RUF logo
The Ruf Automobile logo is a stylised version of the brand name.

Saab

Large Saab logo
The Saab logo is a stylised versino of the brand name. The old griffin logo is no longer allowed to be used on the firm’s cars after Chinese consortium National Electric Vehicle Sweden purchased Saab Automobile AB’s main assets. Only the name can be used.

Saleen

Large Saleen logo
The Saleen logo comprises a stylised letter S created out of piston-like shapes.

Scion

Large Scion logo
The Scion logo is a 3D oval with a horizontal bar carrying the brand name, as well as a vertical stylized letter ‘S’.

SEAT

Large SEAT logo
The Seat logo is a stylized 3D letter ‘S’.

Skoda

Large Skoda logo
The Skoda logo features a ‘winged arrow’ which depicts an arrow combined with a stylized head of a Native American wearing a feathered headdress. The ‘Skoda Green’ design is set in a circular badge with a white background and a black and chrome border.

Smart

Large Smart car logo
The Smart logo is a 3D letter ‘C’ combined with a yellow arrow head representing forward thinking.

SRT

Large SRT logo
The SRT logo is a stylized version of the brand name.

Ssangyong

Large Ssangyong logo
The Ssangyong logo is meant to be a stylized depiction of two dragons rising up to heaven. The name Ssangyong means ‘twin dragons’.

Subaru

Large Subaru logo
The Subaru logo shows a blue oval with a chrome border containing the six main stars contained in the star cluster Pleiades. Subaru is the Japanese name for the cluster, and was given the name to represent the six companies that merged to form Subaru’s parent company FujiHeavy Industries.

Superformance

Large Superformance logo
The Superformance logo features the brand name next to a red square containing two inclined white stripes.

Suzuki

Large Suzuki logo
The Suzuki logo is a stylized letter ‘S’.

Tata Motors

Large Tata Motors logo
The Tata Motors logo is a stylized letter ‘T’ and is meant to depict fluidity. It is also said to represent a tree of trust or a fountain of knowledge.

Tesla

Large Tesla logo
The Tesla logo is a stylized letter T which sits above the brand name in a mainly white on red color scheme. The exact meaning of the imagery is unknown, but it’s thought the way the T is drawn could represent a pole in an electric motor or a Tesla coil. It used to sit on a shield, and the bottom of the shield still forms part of the grille on the firm’s cars, underneath the logo.

Toyota

Large Toyota logo
The Toyota logo is created from three interlocking ovals. The inner ovals are said to represent the hearts of both the customer and the company, which overlap to show mutual trust. They also form a ‘T’ for Toyota. The outer oval is said to represent the world embracing the company and its ethos.

TVR

Large TVR logo
The TVR logo is a stylized version of the brand name and was created by the firm’s competition mechanic Bob Hallett in 1964.

Ultima Sports

Large Ultima Sports logo
The Ultima Sports logo features one of the brand’s cars underneath the brand name and set in an oval shape.

Vauxhall

Large Vauxhall logo
The Vauxhall logo features a griffin holding a flag bearing the letter ‘V’, and is set in a circular badge. The griffin comes from the coat of arms of Falkes de Breauté, a mercenary soldier who died in 1226. A house he built for his wife in London was known as Fawkes Hall, which later became Foxhall and subsequently Vauxhall.

Venturi

Large Venturi logo
The Venturi logo features a stylized letter ‘V’ in red on a white or black background.

Volkswagen

Large Volkswagen logo
The Volkswagen logo features the letters V and a W, one on top of the other, contained in a circle of the same width and set on a blue background. It was said to have been dreamt up by engineer Franz Reimspiess in an office competition to design a logo for the firm.

Volvo

Large Volvo logo
The Volvo logo is formed from a 3D silver circle with an arrow coming out of the top right. Inside sits a blue band carrying the brand name. Although the circle and arrow look like the biological sign for males (as opposed to the circle with a hanging cross that represents females), it is actually meant to show the old symbol for iron.

Westfield Sportscars

Large Westfield Cars logo
The Westfield Sportcars logo is made up of a black and white circle carrying the brand name. The top half is thought to depict a rising sun and the bottom half the earth. The design also resembles the spokes on a wheel.

Wiesmann

Large Wiesmann logo
The Wiesmann logo is a 3D gecko lizard, and is meant to show that Wiesmann cars stick to the road like geckos stick to the wall.

Zenvo

Large Zenvo logo
The Zenvo logo is formed of a black shield with the brand name in silver at the top. An image underneath is thought to depict an engine piston.

We hope you’ve found this list of car logos useful. If there are any logos that you think we should add, or anything information that you think we are missing or need to add, please let us know in the comments section below.

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