BONUS: Canyonero Emblem

Obviously, a fine vehicle like the Canyonero ought to have a distinctive emblem on the hood. Following in the tradition of the Mercury Cougar and the Dodge Ram trucks, I chose to use a rhino as my emblem.

A few minutes of fun with Photoshop gave it a shiny chrome surface.

I wasn't entirely happy with the first one, so here are a couple more variations.
I think I like the last one best. Finally, though, I decided to just match the illustrated look of the logotype:

 
If I had the time, I'd make 3D versions of these emblems and put them on my Montero.

The Canyonero

This is actually where the "designing Springfield" idea started; a few years ago, I bought a 1983 Jeep Wagoneer, which the kids promptly dubbed "Canyonero." I went searching online for screengrabs for the episode hoping to find a nice logo, but no luck. When I watched the episode again, I found that they never really had one.

There seems to be another federal law, requiring that all large vehicles feature their name lettered in bold, oblique (not italic, thank you), upper-case, sans serif type. Look around you on the road; all the big trucks and SUVs follow the rule. So we will too.

I've chosen Chimes, a genuinely horrible font, available on all those free font pages and worth about what you pay for it. Chimes has no lower-case letters, no punctuation to speak of, and no accent or foreign characters. It's almost useless. Almost. In this case, it perfectly serves our needs. It's blocky and extended, with rounded corners and squared-off shapes, exactly what's called for in the gigantic automobile category.

For the Canyonero treatment, I've skewed the type 12 degrees to the right, kerned it tightly, given it a fake extruded look, and rendered it in a cheesy faux-chrome finish. Everything you expect from the nameplate on the door of a car that can herd rhinos.