Cars named after (or same as) WW2 and 1950s aircraft?

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The BMW emblem, complete with the four colored quadrants, is a spinning airplane propeller.
Yes, the logo was to touch on their aircraft engine manufacturing heritage.

Same with many older GM vehicles, which had a carriage logo on the rocker panel step plate: "Body by Fisher".
Fisher manufactured carriages and buggies before the advent of the automobile.
 

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