Before the second world war Hitler wanted an inexpensive car for working man and so Ferdinand Porsche was enlisted to design such a car. In 1938 Volkswagenwerk GmbH was formed – the name ‘Volkswagen’ means ‘People’s car’ in Germany. However the Volkswagen factory was mainly involved in manufacturing military vehicles – Hitler secretly wanted a car to carry three men and a machine gun.
This was its initial logo;
Just before WWII the logo was changed again to a cog wheel design with larger font or logo V and W;
Post WWII, when the factory was rebuilt by the British, the logo was simplified again to remove any military influences in the design;
Interestingly the logo remained unchanged and indeed heavily policed for copyright and trademark throughout the 70’s and 80’s. This is the current logo;
Perhaps one of the largest uses of the logo was on the front of a splitscreen campervan, this is ours;
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