I’m confused. Why does a car with a similar name to a female body part have the male symbol for its emblem.
Volvo is derived from Latin, and the male symbol is also the symbol for the element Fe or iron from which ball bearings were originally made from. I love my S60 it’s quick as all get out gets 30+ on the hwy and will cruise at 120 mph all day if you have the nerve to hold it there.
“Swedish car parts maker Svenska Kullagerfabriken (mmm, catchy), otherwise known as SKF, created a subsidiary in 1915 that was to manufacture bearings for use in cars and the tools that built them. It’s not remembered which clever bean inside SKF thought of Volvo, but it was perfect for the task. It was simple, easy to pronounce and spell, and, being derived from the Latin ‘volvere’, meaning to roll, it was fundamentally suited to being the name of a bearing maker.”