Drive Flashback: The quirky stories behind some of the world’s biggest car brands’ logos

Alejandro de Tomaso was an Argentinian who set up a race-car workshop in Modena, Italy, in 1959 and built his most famous car, the de Tomaso Mangusta, in 1966. The badge is a vertical Argentinian flag backing the brand used on stock on his family estate at the foot of the Andes. With licensing deals, the symbol found its way onto some unlikely cars, including a special edition of Daihatsu’s Charade.