I only found out the truth about the Aston Martin symbol today.
Over the years, I’ve always been curious about the symbol, what bird those wings represent, and it was only today after bothering to research it that I found out the wings represent a Scarab Beetle. Apparently, back in 1932, Sammy Davis, a race car driver and journalist, was big into Egyptology, which was apparently a huge global thing at the time. He helped design the symbol for the car brand by basing it on the wings of a Scarab Beetle, stating how the wings symbolise speed and freedom, just like the Aston Martin itself.