Thursday, October 14, 2010

top 10 best selling cars in Sweden and their car brand meaning

I  read the article from the newspaper about the top 10 most selling cars here. Each car brand name  have own meaning sounds interesting for me in spite I am not a car fanatic. My husband told me before about some car brand why they was named so. This is why I captured right away after reading the said article. A little sharing to you guys hope you like reading it.
  1. Volvo is a latin words means "I'm rolling". It was started as one of the sister company of Svenska Kullagerfabriken in short  (SKF) is a Swedish company manufactures roller ball bearings. They created named Volvo among other things just to increase the sales of ball bearings(as advertising the product).
  2. VW  (Volkswagen) means peoples car,volks is a German word that means "people" German words  "wagen" means "car" . The model origin was designed by Ferdinand Porche year 1932. "Peoples car"was Hitlers project to make the country (Germany) into a better one interms of car production than USA. Make a car that was cheap that all German people can afford to buy according to Hitler. 
  3. Kia the name comes from 2 Chinese sign that together give the meaning of "come from Asian". The first name KI,can also means "progress".
  4. Audi From the beginning one of four car manufacturer who merge together after financial problem 1932. The  4 cirkle trademark symbolize of the 4 companies,but probably was even inspired of OS-symbol after Berlin was host  the competition 1936.
  5. Renault named after Louis Renault who built his first car on his parents backyard in Paris 1898. A blessed with the money from brother Marcel he started building cars in a large scale. Unfortunately he died in prison 1944,suspect for cooperation with the National Socialist.
  6. Ford is also named after Henry Ford who founded the company 1903.
  7. BMW stands for "Bayerische Motoren Werke"German name that started 1916,mainly reason was to build aircraft. Motorcycles and gradually started building cars after the first world war. According to peace treaty  Germany is not allowed to build aircraft anymore. 
  8. SAAB stands for (Svenska Aeroplan AB)in english Swedish Automobile AB. Saab developed the first car prototype 1947,10 years after that the company started as aeroplane manufacturer. The first car was sold in December 1949.
  9. Toyota comes from a family name Toyoda. Founded of company of Sakichi Toyoda who frist started japans first web factory and after designed an automatic loom. His son Kiichiro use the  money he get from patent and started  Toyota Motor Company 1937.
  10. Skoda Founded 1859,but get the name 10 years after when engineer Emil Skoda take over the company. Cars was first manufactured year 1925 together with the company Laurin&Klement,but then had already manufactured cars since 1905.

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From Cebu and landed here in Northern Europe a Nordic Country on the Scandivian Peninsula ..soon to be a Mom. Life living outside Philippines is interesting and a lot of challenge ,of course difficult because of the language.People in Sweden speak Swedish and I need to step back from the basic just to learn their language and to have a job.I created this blog for my family and friends in Philippines,easy for them to update my life here. My other reason is to keep updating my english language.