Most people are familiar with the normal car brand “badges.” Chevy is a bow tie, Ford is a blue oval, Honda an H, etc.
I was driving with my son when he asked me what kind of car that one was… well, because it had the familiar leaping deer I told him it was an Impala. He asked who made it and I told him Chevy. He then asked why there wasn’t the bow tie anywhere.
It then dawned on me that we were driving in a Ford Mustang, and there is not a blue oval anywhere on the car.
So, Impalas and Mustangs have their own unique badges… I think Corvettes do also, but I also think they may sport the bow tie. Are there any other cars that wear only their own unique badge and not the manufacturer’s?
In 2010, Chrysler removed the “Dodge” name from Ram trucks. They now are just called RAM, and the logo is, of course, a ram.
Similarly, Vipers stopped being produced under the Dodge brand a year or two ago, and are now branded as an “SRT” vehicle. Note that SRT makes “performance” versions of several other Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles, but Viper is solely an SRT brand now.
That first one is new to me. Do they still use it or was it for a particular model? Does the second one really count as a badge? I knew that they almost always just use their name or the name of the model.
It’s pretty confusing since Dodge used the ram head logo for most of the 2000’s, but it appears that logo went to the new brand, and now they have this rather unremarkable logo for the remnants of the Dodge brand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Dodge_logo.png
I’m sure Chrysler thinks that spinning off Ram was some brilliant marketing gambit, but I still don’t see it.
The Monte Carlo has the bow tie on the back but I don’t think the Cougar has the regular Mercury logo on it anywhere at least not for the last 10 or 15 years (whenever the new body style came out, which is about when I started driving and happened to notice them).
Well, certainly not since 2002, since the Cougar was discontinued that year (the last body style was introduced for the 1999 model year).
For that matter, no car has worn the Mercury badge (which screamed “1980s” to me) since the beginning of 2011, as the brand name was shut down by Ford at that point.
Not on mine (2012 Mustang). I’d noticed the same thing on mine not too long ago – no Ford oval anywhere, and the only place it says “Ford” at all on the outside of the car is lettering around the Pony badge on the trunk lip.
