Sakichi Toyoda was born in Japan 145 years ago today on February 14th, 1867. By all accounts a hard-working entrepreneur, Toyoda's greatest success was building a small business manufacturing textile looms. That business ended up growing into a company that, for two years beginning in 2008, became the world's largest…

General Motors has been upgrading the blue corporate logo on its Detroit Renaissance Center headquarters in recent weeks to a more dynamic format with a video screen. Flashy, and easily adaptable for when GM's bought by China. [WXYZ].

As time, style and technology advance, so too do the brand logos by which automakers have identified themselves. Some have remained the same and some are hardly recognizable from the originals. Here's a look at how 14 changed.

Select members of the Viper Club of America were able to catch a glimpse of what's likely the logo of the upcoming fifth-generation Dodge Viper at the 11th Annual Viper Club of America's Owners Invitational. Looks familiar somehow. Hmm...

When Chrysler spun-off trucks into their own Ram brand it created a problem for Dodge: The logo is a ram. Our sources claim Dodge plans to kill the "ram" in a new logo that'll likely look like this.

The dashboard and underhood of your car provide a constellation of symbols — much of the iconography is standard. The symbols that aren't? Sometimes they're easily understood and sometimes they're open for misinterpretation. Here's 20 icons trending toward the hilarious.

In what the British media is calling a "guerrilla ad campaign," Nissan recently stickered a handful of its fleet cars with "kill" graphics signifying motorsport wins. The targets? Porsche, BMW, and Audi. Guess which one couldn't take a joke.

In 1966, Henry Ford II asked famed graphic designer Paul Rand to update the Ford corporate logo. This is what he came up with. Why didn't it take?

Artist Timothy Raines focuses much of his talent on automobile logos in his series "Brand As Art." He makes the Cavillino in these works Rampante and spreads Bentley's wings with a triptych. Glorious and gorgeous!

This is what happens when women with a peculiar attraction to seafood and automobiles bring out the sushi knife and the tuna.