Puzzler Answer, Encore 7, Swiss army Knife

Ray: I was in the jungle in South America and I had to remove a poison dart from my index finger.

Tom: Nicaragua.

Ray: Something like that. And I had out my Swiss army knife, and I was doing a little surgery on my finger. And as I was about to put my Swiss army knife away, I looked at it, and I noticed that it has on it the symbol of the Swiss flag, which is a white cross.

Tom: Or at least exciting.

Tom: Everyone knows what the Swiss army does.

Ray: What do they do?

Tom: They make knives. You know, like prisoners make license plates; the whole Swiss army is out there making knives.

Ray: That's where the name comes from--Swiss army knife. Do they make anything else? Like flatware? Anyway, the Swiss army knife has this white cross on a red background. That is evidently the Swiss flag. And I realized that a certain automotive logo comes from this.

Tom: You might say a stylized version of the Swiss Flag.

Ray: Yeah, I might have said that if I had thought of it. So the question is what automotive company uses the Swiss flag?

Tom: And how come?

Ray: The symbol comes from the founders of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.

Tom: They were brothers, too, just like us.

Ray: And their other brother Gaston, Chevrolet. And they were, of course, Swiss. And they took that symbol, the Swiss flag, and they decided to stylize it a bit, so they leaned it over a few degrees and kind of stretched it out. And that has become the Chevrolet symbol. And it is because they were Swiss -- that's why they used it.

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