Topic: Feature: Car brands - who owns what?

[Autos_Editor]

With all the changes in the automobile industry over the past few years, it's hard to keep track of which car brands are owned by which companies.  Senior Editor Paul Williams has the latest update on who owns what.
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[D70]

An excellent roundup Paul.

I find very few people who know who makes what and where its made.

North American built foreign makes and models are the vehicles most often mixed up.

People love to take in car shows despite their origin.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d70w7/4674494321/

[chrischasescars]

Nice photo. Yours? I like the old Civics in the foreground. My dad had a blue '78 hatch that I wish he'd kept long enough so that I could've had it when I got my license.

[Que]

I didn't see mention of Renault and Nissan??? I thought they had some sort of mix.

[wing]

I didn't see mention of Renault and Nissan??? I thought they had some sort of mix.

Nissan-Renault is a major alliance, although we don’t see Renault-branded cars in North America. Germany’s Daimler recently took an ownership role in Nissan-Renault, with a one-time cross-shareholding amounting to 3.1 per cent of each company’s share capital.

[dasiuyan]

isn't Subaru is owned by Toyota for about 17%? so called partial ownership?

[Jason]

What about Alfa Romeo and Maserati?

[tpl]

Citroen- Peugeot  ?

[tpl]

What about Alfa Romeo and Maserati?

Alfa Romeo and Maserati both part of the Fiat group now.

[CDF]

Citroen- Peugeot  ?

PSA Peugeot Citroën. They are independant with Peugeot buying Citroën in the 70's???

There is also the South Korean Daewoo. Bankrupt and now owned by GM, 'GM DAT', or GM Daewoo is a significant part of GM's small car strategy. We see these cars in Canada as the Chevy Aveo/Suzuki Swift+ (not to be confused with the Suzuki Swift that the rest of the world gets), Chevy Optra and Saturn VUE among others.

[Scaerio]

Renault also owns Romania's Dacia and South Korea's Samsung Motors (who make Renault's crossover, the Koleos).

Mitsubishi also builds the Peugeot 4007 and Citroen C-Crosser car-based SUVs (re-badged Outlander) for PSA.

[dasiuyan]

I know this article author try to introduce the familiar brand to Canadian, but it is just not enough.

Check this out: this is what call Detail
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/Who-owns-who-in-the-car-industry/

[wing]

Yes Paul was covering the Canadian Market specifically.

[Ex-airbalancer]

Nice photo. Yours? I like the old Civics in the foreground. My dad had a blue '78 hatch that I wish he'd kept long enough so that I could've had it when I got my license.

Did not most of them rust out in 3 years 

Barrie would know the answer 

[robsaw]

Nice photo. Yours? I like the old Civics in the foreground. My dad had a blue '78 hatch that I wish he'd kept long enough so that I could've had it when I got my license.

Did not most of them rust out in 3 years 

Barrie would know the answer 

My 1975 Civic lasted until 1986, it was 5 years old when I bought it with no rust.  Lots of rust when I got rid of it and a not so good engine.  Not sure what the mileage was since the odometer broke at around 75000.

Watch out for the Chinese buying more brands with the pot of $US they have collected.  Much better for them to buy an established manufacturer than try to develop their own cars from scratch, which by all estimates are far below Hyundai quality (when they entered the NA market 20 or so years ago).

[iaink]

Isnt Volvo sold/ being sold to Geely?  Geely are a different chinese entity to SAIC, who ended up indirectly holding MG after merging with over another chinese company Nanjing, which "won" MG in the end.

[Dante]

Mitsubishi also builds the Peugeot 4007 and Citroen C-Crosser car-based SUVs (re-badged Outlander) for PSA.

No onwership involved here though... but a manufacturing partnership. PSA had the intent to tight the knot with Mitsu few months back but the deal fell apart.

Mitsu uses the PSA 2.2L diesel in the Euro Outlander (in 2007 they used VW but then switched to PSA). Mitsu will also provide PSA with their own iMIEV version soon.
Not sure what Mitsu is getting from PSA but maybe a B-segment car (new Colt).

[Funky Chicken]

An obvious omission is Scion, built by Toyota, who will be entering the Canadian market very soon.