Since its earliest days making buses, train cars ... black bulldog hood ornament T-shirt for $20 to a cotton-poly fleece retro hoodie for $126, bearing the dog astride an oval Mack Trucks logo.

so car designers began incorporating a "car mascot" (a term that morphed into hood ornament) to make them more stylish and appealing. They also came with thermometers called MotoMeters that ...