The Year of the Tiger has arrived, in your impression
What are some of the tiger-related cars?
If you think about it, you've never seen it before
Car brand with Tiger as logo?
Lion (Peugeot)
Jaguar (Jaguar)
Cheetah (Cheetah)
You know the above "beast" car
And the strongest predator on the surface
"Tiger"
But I haven't seen it yet
Let's take stock
Those Tiger cars
You know, in the era of "standardization", any shape may appear. "Standing standard" means "Hood Ornament", which literally means "hood decoration". This is a simple decoration that represents good luck and auspiciousness, also known as "landmark mascot". It began to appear in the 1880s as an alternative to the water thermometers that were often found on the China Internet at that time. To this day, some cars still retain "standards", the most typical of which is the celebratory goddess of Rolls-Royce.
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The landmark mascot has a high degree of personal customization flexibility, and what statue you want, the craftsman can create what kind of shape for you. Buying a car in the early days requires additional money if you want a logo. Originally, it was the owners who customized the logo, and then many car manufacturers launched different styles of the logo every year to eliminate people's aesthetic fatigue, such as the OzMobil car, which changed 11 bids in the 40s alone.
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The shapes of those standards reflect the trends and aesthetics of the time. For example, you can see the erection of OzMobil, the forehead of a streamlined train, the shape of an airplane, the shape of a bullet with red reflectives...
The personalized bidding of automobile manufacturers was extremely popular in the 1930s and 1950s, and it was not until later that with the safety regulations, the emphasis on wind resistance coefficient, and cost control, the trend of bidding slowly disappeared. Today, there are fewer and fewer cars that use standards, such as Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and Bentley, all of which take into account the impact of collision safety and gradually reduce the number of standard models.
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After the trend of marking faded away, two cars with the real "tiger" logo were born, both from Asia. Sure enough, as the area with the highest distribution of tigers, Asians still prefer tigers.
The first one is Proton in Malaysia
Its LOGO is a mighty tiger head
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Proton has a fairly high reputation in Southeast Asia, the brand was established as early as 1983, it is the only domestic car brand in Malaysia, and it is also the strongest car brand in Southeast Asia.
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Proton's LOGO, originally a deformation of the crescent pattern of the Malaysian flag, was changed to a tiger head in the third generation after two generations of replacement. Although the official did not specifically explain the meaning of the tiger's head, it is roughly the meaning of the tiger's bravery and pioneering. Because tigers also have a special status in Malaysia, one of them is called "Malay Tiger", which is a subspecies of tiger identified in 2004, living only in Peninsular Malaysia, slightly larger than the Sumatran tiger and Balinese tiger, and is now malaysia's national animal.
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The second brand is Spirra in South Korea. The brand focuses on making supercars, and its logo is also the tiger's head of a tiger. Kim Han-Chai, the founder of Spirra, has publicly stated that the reason for this brand is that South Korea has not had its own supercar, only Hyundai and Kia, which are ordinary family car brands.
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Because Koreans worship tigers, Kim Han-Chai uses a tiger head to symbolize becoming a leader in the Korean auto industry.
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The Spirra's supercar, which was launched in China in 2010, is fully powered by Hyundai's 2.7L V6 engine, with a maximum power range from 175 hp to 502 hp, and the top model zero hundred acceleration takes only 3.5 seconds, it is a very niche supercar.
In addition to two Asian brands, there is also a brand with a tiger logo, LEYLAND is from the United Kingdom, is the tiger graphic in the picture below more concrete?
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But to be precise, it's not a certain car brand, but a certain series of a car brand. This car brand is the famous British Leland, and this tiger is its "tiger series" bus. The series first appeared in the front-engine buses of the 1920s and 1950s, and later in the new buses of the 1980s.
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LEYLAND did not have a unique love for tigers, but liked fierce felines, for example, before the "tiger series" in the 80s, there was also a "leopard" series, and the logo also embedded a realistic leopard. Perhaps, named after this feline, the car seems to be powerful and powerful.
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From this, it can be seen that there are still some "Tiger Label" brands. The reason why people don't know is because these brands really don't have too much popularity. Some have not even entered the Chinese market yet. And too niche car brands, perhaps because they have not greatly enhanced their influence, have been marginalized.
Future outlook
Hope for the future
We can also create a car brand with "Tiger"
Tiger tiger might
It can set off a huge wave in the entire automotive industry
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