Family Tree of Auto Industry

Today, I had a lunch with my friend who is a car dealer and we talked a lot about a variety of vehicle brands. To my surprise, Lamborghini is owned by Volkswagen which also owns Audi and Bentley. I found that I had never focused on the family tree of the auto industry, so I made some research about it after lunch. The auto industry has a very confusing family tree. In the past few years, a large number of car brands were establishing partnerships, or merging, or experiencing bankruptcies. Therefore, it becomes difficult to keep up with who owns which car brands. In the next part, I have listed some of them. BMW owns Mini and Rolls Royce. Fiat owns Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Ferrari, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, and Ram. Ford Motor Company owns Lincoln and a small stake in Mazda. General Motors owns Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC. GM owns a controlling interest in Daewoo, as well as Opel and Vauxhall in Europe and Holden in Australia. (The U.S. government also owns a stake in GM.) Honda owns Acura. Hyundai owns Kia. Tata Motors (India) owns Jaguar and Land Rover. Mazda is independently owned. Mitsubishi is independently owned. Daimler AG owns Mercedes-Benz and Smart. Nissan which is owned by Renault owns Infiniti. Saab is owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS). Subaru is owned by Fuji Heavy Industries with Toyota a minority partner. Toyota Motor Company owns Lexus, Scion, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, with a stake in Fuji Industries (Subaru's parent company) and Isuzu. Volkswagen owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, and overseas-brands SEAT and Skoda. Volvo is owned by Chinese-automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, aka Geely. (Baron Zhang)