Cars brands

The main criterion for choosing a car is often the brand itself. The founders of corporations attach paramount importance to the name and development of the company logo, so that motorists can easily navigate the vehicle belonging to a particular brand. This section provides the most complete list of the most famous car brands in the world with icons and a brief description of the history and features of each of them.

What are the brands of cars?

Each logo carries a semantic load and has a specific designation expressing the aspirations and main views of manufacturers. The most popular brands of Japanese, German, American, French and domestic cars do not need to be introduced.

In recent years, the Chinese auto industry has made a rapid breakthrough in the production and production of high-quality and high-tech cars, not inferior in terms of their parameters and characteristics to more famous analogues. Unfortunately, most brands of Chinese and Korean automakers are little known to the end user.

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Car brands alphabetically

This section is devoted to the history of the creation of logos of all available car brands. For convenience, brands are displayed alphabetically.

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Maria de las Mercedes (mercy and grace) is the meaning of the name given by Emil Ellinek to his daughter Adriana Ramone and the famous car. The names of car brands are known almost all from the cradle. But what is hidden behind the beautiful names of the most famous brands? Do they bear the names of their founders, are named after someone, are associated with a significant event, or is the character of the car hidden behind a short word, or maybe it's something encrypted? How were the names of the most popular cars in the world born?

Origin of car brand names

Acronyms

A number of names of automobile brands are acronyms, abbreviations formed by the initial letters of the words (or abbreviations) that make up, for example, the name of the factory producing these cars brands.

BMW - Baverrische Motoren Wenke (Bavarian Motor Plant)

Alfa Romeo - ALFA (an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica AutoMobil) and the name Nicola Romeo bought in 1915.

Fiat - Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Automobile Plant of Turin)

Nissan - Nippon Sangyo (Japan Industry)

Saab - Svenska Aeroplan ab (aktiebolaget)

Named after

How to leave your name forever? You can accomplish a feat, create a masterpiece in architecture, painting or music, set a world record (or two), or you can start a car campaign and give it your name! The latter method was very popular among car manufacturers in the world. Sometimes the name of the locality where it is produced was added to the name, and sometimes the owner even “encrypted” his name.

Aston Martin is a company founded by Lionel Martin near Aston Clinton, where Aston Hill car races took place.

Audi is the case of the "hidden name". When August Horch was removed from the company bearing his name, he founded Audi Automobil-Werke. What is the connection between Khoroch and Audi? Horch and Audi translate as “listen,” from German and Latin, respectively.

Сadillac - got its name from the French explorer, founder of Detroit.

Chevrolet is the name of one of the founders of the Swiss racing car company Louis Chevrolet.

Chrysler - named after founder Walter P. Chrysler.

Citroen - bears the name of Andre-Gustave Citroën.

Ferrari, Ford, Porshe, Renault - also named after their creators Enzo Ferrari, Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche and Louis Renault

Rolls-Royce - preserved two names in history at once: Frederick Henry Royce and Charles Stuart Rolls.

Name with value

The most beautiful, in our opinion, names of car brands have a special meaning and meaning hidden in their translation.

Daewoo is the name given by founder Kim Woo Jung, meaning "Big Universe." Such a name gives a great deal of imagination to designers.

Hyundai - from Korean is translated as modernity, which means that this company always keeps up to date.

Volvo - means "I roll" translated from Latin, guaranteeing that this car will not fail!

Subaru is the name given to the brand by the name of the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus, which says that these are Stars among other cars.

Japanese cars among all the cars of the world in terms of names in a special place. Although many of them also bear the names of their creators, however, everything is given special significance. The name given to a person has a deep meaning, which is also transferred to a car named in his honor.

Toyota is a company created by Toyoda Kiichiro, whose name literally means "harvest field."

Daihatsu is a "great production" formed by a combination of two characters meaning "engine production" and the headquarters of the company is the city of Osaka.

Mitsubishi is “only” three diamonds, although there are a lot more diamonds in the collection of this car brand!

Suzuki - named after the founder Michio Suzuki, translated into Russian means ... "bell on a tree."

Honda - a brand that also received a name from its founder, Soichiro Honda, has two meanings: “rising field” and “book field”.

 Isuzu - "fifty bells", its name is due to the Isuzuzugawa River. And where is the river? Just the first time the Isuzu company was engaged in the production of boats, generators and even various garden tools.

Just as a person has a surname and a name, the name of the car is made up of his brand (surname) and the name of the model (name). The brand name is an unshakable thing, but with the names for the models, their creators can fantasize ad libitum. Which prefixes do not get famous brands to their "generic name". What is hidden behind them - the nature of the car, its personality, hidden features or obvious advantages?

Mitsubishi Debonair - Courtesy and Courtesy

Mitsubishi Dignity - Self-esteem

Nissan Fairlady - beautiful lady

Nissan Flying Feather - Flying Feather

Toyota VITZ - bright, witty, talented

Toyota BREVIS - courageous, brave, courageous, brave

Subaru DIAS - Daily, Everyday

Subaru SAMBAR TRY - from the term "tray - winning three points when passing a player with a ball to the opponent's goal line in rugby."

However, curiosities do happen here! The name given by the creators of the car brand, which according to their plan should be beautiful and carry the best qualities inherent in this particular model, may turn out to be ridiculous and even dissonant. Even the properties inherent in the name may seem at least strange for a machine with a certain name. It's all about translation! That in one language - music for hearing and food for the mind, in another it may turn out to be funny and not even politically correct, as they say now, or even completely obscene.