People drew car logos from memory and the results are unbelievable

 When it comes to logos and branding, we like to think we're pretty in-the-know. But remembering the logos we see everyday can be harder than you'd think, as a study hilariously revealed last year. 

Vanmonster asked 100 members of the British public to draw several famous car logos from memory, and the results range from impressively accurate to hilariously off. They also serve as an interesting insight into which logo elements are ingrained into the public consciousness, and which are more forgettable than the manufacturers might like to think. For some of the most memorable logos ever, check out our best logos of all time.

We'll start with perhaps the simplest logo on Vanmonster's list. Surely Audi's four intersecting rings (below) are impossible to forget? To be fair, the vast majority of entrants got this one right, and most slip-ups are at least ring-related (Audi's and the Olympics' rings are similar, we'll give them that). As for those towards the bottom-right (Vanmonster lists the drawings from 'most accurate' to 'least accurate'), a few seem to have mixed up Audi and the Avengers. They both begin with 'A', we guess.

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Most of these look about right (Image credit: Vanmonster)

On the other end of the spectrum, the Alfa Romeo logo is probably the most complex on the list. Unsurprising, then, that most got this one wrong. 74 per cent of entrants forgot to include the red cross, 63 per cent forgot the green snake and a whopping 75 per cent didn't include the shield. Our favourites are probably the three 'least accurate': two question marks, and one which simply says, "animals of some sort".

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