The 10 Worst Car Company Logos Of All Time

From it’s oval-like-everyone-else badge (which includes all the letters of the company name) to the painfully staid font, Japan’s GM is as bad as its American counterpart.

It’s a shame, since they have so may sweet logos in their history, particularly this old gem.

Suggested By: niklaf

It’s a Honda logo, italicized.

Suggested By: Arch Duke Maxyenko

Even companies that make interesting cars sometimes wuss out when making a logo. It looks like SSC ran out of room when they made this one.

Suggested By: Crossdrilled

As you may note, Smart does not have a ‘C’ in its name. The ‘C’ stands for compact, which stands for compact. The Smart actually stands for ‘Swatch Mercedes Art,’ because Swatch helped design the first Smart model, the City Coupé.

The yellow arrow stands for forward thinking, or some other 1990s trendy bullshit.

Suggested By: Nibbles

You’d think that the company that makes the second-coolest car in China (the Geely Panda) would have something more interesting than this means-nothing logo. Then again, they did try and have an interesting logo once, and then it was quite possibly a ripoff of Toyota.

Suggested By: Diesel

BYD is another Chinese carmaker and also a manufacturer of cellphone batteries. They’re an interesting company, making some of the most blatant knockoffs in the Chinese auto industry, and also some of the most groundbreaking electric cars in their market. And yet their logo could not be more bland if it tried.

Suggested By: SennaMP4

It’s a jock strap. Can’t unsee.

Suggested By: JSWilson64_g

The blandest of the bland. Hyper bland. Wallpaper paste in car logo form. The elevator music of the car logo world. It is the absolute distillation of dumbed-down design.

Suggested By: willkinton247

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