Car companies who owns whom

Walter Chrysler had an extensive history in the auto industry even before the founding of the Chrysler Motor Corporation in However, far more of the actual work gets done at the main Chrysler office in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and major Fiat location in Turin, Italy. Henry Ford co-founded the Ford Motor Company with investors in , and the business created a true "people's car" in with the introduction of the Model T.

It built around 15 million of them through While it once controlled brands like Aston Martin and Volvo , Ford Motor Company's current structure is rather simple. It controls:. William C. Durant, the owner of Buick at the time, founded General Motors as a holding company for automotive brands in Soon after, it acquired other automakers like Oldsmobile and Cadillac. Once the owner of many well known U.

General Motors now controls:. Sochiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa founded the Honda Motor Company in and began selling its first motorcycle in ; prior to that the firm built clip-on engines for attaching to bicycles.

The company entered the auto business with the tiny T truck in August and S sports car a couple months later in October. Hyundai started as a construction company in but expanded quickly and entered the auto business in The firm initially built a version of the Ford Cortina under license and introduced its own car, the Pony in Kia started in as Kyungsung Precision Industry, a firm specializing in making bicycle parts.

The company's name became Kia in , and it entered the auto market in by building the K under license. It was a small, three-wheeled Mazda truck. Renault and Nissan formed their alliance much earlier on March 27, The combined companies don't have a centralized headquarters.

Renault's main office is in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, a suburb of Paris. Nissan operates out of Yokohama, Japan, and Mitsubishi has its primary location in the Minato ward of Tokyo. Rumor has it that the companies to watch out for are Changan, Chery, and Geely.

Changan is the top producing car company in China and has dealings with Ford, Suzuki, and Mazda. Geely owns 5 percent of the Chinese market. Cars are priced around USD 5, There is a report that Geely recently signed a deal with Malcolm Bricklins Chery to start selling its vehicles in the United States by General Motors and Ford are in the news for losing marketshare while Nissan and Toyota are in the news for gaining marketshare.

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