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Latest archived mark · 2019

Aria

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Latest archived mark · 1969

AMC

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What we compare	Aria	AMC
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	1996	May 1, 1954
Founder	Charles Taylor, Clive Hawkins, Kevin Cain	George W. Mason
Headquarters	Irvine, California, United States	Southfield, Michigan, United States
Name origin	Aria Group has not published why it chose the name "Aria." The word is most commonly known as a musical term for a solo vocal piece, but no company statement ties the name to that meaning, to a founder, or to any other documented source. The origin should be treated as unconfirmed rather than settled.	American Motors Corporation took its name directly from its own description: a newly combined, all-American automaker formed on May 1, 1954, when Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company merged. Unlike brands named for a founder's surname, "American Motors" was a descriptive, patriotic corporate name chosen for the merged company itself, and "AMC" is simply the initials the public and the company came to use for it. No more elaborate origin story for the specific wording appears to be documented.
Selected models	FXE	Rambler, AMX, Javelin, Gremlin, Pacer, Eagle
Earliest archived brand logo	2019	1954
Latest archived logo	2019	1969
Archived logo assets	1	3

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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