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Everyone’s been skeptical of this at one point, but Ferrari’s and Porsche’s prancing horse, are the same horse. Well known WWI Italian air ace Francesco Baracca first put a prancing horse surrounded by yellow on his plane when he shot down a German pilot over Stuttgart, the birthplace of Porsche, as a mark of respect to his fallen, but worthy enemy, and so the horse became a part of Stuttgart’s coat of arms, and so later on making it into Porsche’s emblem. A few years after Baracca’s death, Enzo met Baracca’s mother, who suggested to him to put the horse on the side of his racing cars, as a sign of good luck, making the Ferrari emblem.
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Cool story, but what is the story behind Volvo’s reindeer logo? Did some Volvo CEO hit a deer once and killed it but the car (tank) survived without a scratch. And they decided to use the reindeer emblem to pay tribute to the deer that tried to destroy the car but failed?
No idea, might look into it
Its not a reindeer, its a Moose…
And the Prancing Moose have nothing to do with Volvo itself, its a guy who designed a sticker as a joke. he sells them at http://www.davebarton.com/
He also makes them for Saabs, and also have a Moose parody of the Lamboghini Bull, and also the Porsche Logo.
Not really. The prancing horse surrounded by yellow is Stuttgart’s coat of arms, while the rest is the coat of arms of pre-Weimar era Free People’s State Of Württemberg, the capital of which was Stuttgart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Company_logo
I never said their logos were exactly the same, just the horse.