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Monday, July 12, 2010
2010 above vs 2005 below
from http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/Who-owns-who-in-the-car-industry/ via: http://www.norcalminis.com/ BMW currently owns BMW, Mini, and Rolls Royce.
Bentley is currently owned by Volkswagen.
Daimler AG owns Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and Smart.
The Fiat Group now owns: Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Lancia and Maserati. They also own Chrysler and Dodge plus a 20% share in Jeep.
Ford Motor Company now owns Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo and a 13.4% share of Mazda.
General Motors Corporation owns Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC. They also have a controlling interest in Daewoo whose cars are currently only available in Viet Nam and South Korea. GM also owns Opel and Vauxhall in Europe, and Holden in Australia. Pontiac is said to be discontinued for now.
Honda owns Honda, and their upmarket brand Acura.
Hyundai owns Hyundai and the fellow Korean marque, Kia.
Hummer is still owned by GM and they are considering offers to sell the brand.
Koenigsegg is a Swedish super car manufacturer.
Lotus is currently owned by Malaysian car company Proton.
Mazda owns 86.6% of itself with Ford owning the other 13.4%.
Mitsubishi is responsible for 100% of their own company, a rarity these days!
Pagani is an Italian car company who makes the Zonda supercar.
Peugot the French car maker also owns Citroen.
Porsche owns their own brand as well as a majority stake in Volkswagen.
French company Renault owns Nissan who also makes their upscale brand Infiniti.
Saab is now owned by the Dutch car company Spyker.
Saturn is owned by GM, but production has stopped and assets are being liquidated.
Suzuki took over Daewoo jointly with GM but now only uses their manufacturing facilities. They have now gone to engineering completely new cars rather than rebadging Daewoo's with cars like the new Suzuki Kizashi.
Tata Motors is an Indian car company who currently owns Jaguar and Land Rover.
Tesla is an American electric car company based in the Silicon Valley area of California.
Toyota Motor Company owns Lexus, Toyota, Scion, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, plus a share of Isuzu, and a majority stake in Subaru.
Volkswagen currently owns Audi, Volkswagen, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT and Skoda.
from http://www.examiner.com/sports-car-in-national/who-owns-who-the-automotive-industry
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