Author name: Car Logos

Volvo’s badge is the ancient chemical symbol for iron, adopted in 1926, and the diagonal bar on its grille began in 1927 as a way to hold the badge in place.

A V above a W, first wrapped in a cog in 1938, then in a plain ring from 1948. Who drew it is still disputed, and in 2019 Volkswagen flattened it for the electric age.

Venturi started as a French GT maker in 1984 and was reborn in Monaco in 2000 as an electric vehicle specialist. Here is how its badge and its cars changed along the way.

Vector was Jerry Wiegert’s attempt to build an American supercar with aerospace technology. Here is the verified story of the company, its name and its few, famous cars.

In 1915 an apprentice won a prize with a griffin taken from a medieval mercenary’s coat of arms. Vauxhall has redrawn it a dozen times since, most recently in 2026, when the V flag disappeared for the first time.

Vandenbrink Design is the Amsterdam coachbuilding studio founded by Michiel van den Brink, famous for the Vandenbrink GTO design on a Ferrari 599. Here is its red and chrome emblem and the projects behind it.

UAZ began in 1941 when part of a Moscow truck plant was evacuated to Ulyanovsk. Its emblem, a bird in a circle, is built around the Cyrillic letter U.

TVR’s emblem is the brand’s own name, taken from the letters of Trevor Wilkinson’s first name. Here is the story of the Blackpool sports car maker, its badge and its many revivals.

Troller named its 4×4 after a loyal, short-tempered troll from Norwegian legend. The story of the red T badge, the T4 from Horizonte, Ceará, and the Ford years that ended in 2021.

Tramontana was a Catalan supercar that mixed a Formula 1 car with a fighter jet. Its name came from the north wind of the Empordà and a local saying about madness.