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Who owns which car brand

The company behind each of 37 car brands, where the brand comes from, when it was founded and by whom. Each row comes from that brand's Wikipedia article, cited on its page.

Who owns which car brand
BrandOwnerCountryFoundedFounder
AcuraAmerican Honda Motor Company1986Soichiro Honda
Alfa RomeoStellantis EuropeItaly1910Ugo Stella, Nicola Romeo
AudiVolkswagen GroupGermany1909August Horch
BentleyAudiEngland1919
BugattiBugatti RimacFrance1998
BuickGeneral MotorsU.S.1899David Dunbar Buick
CadillacGeneral MotorsUnited States1902William Murphy, Lemuel Bowen, Henry M. Leland
ChevroletGeneral Motors (1918–present)U.S.1911Arthur Chevrolet, Louis Chevrolet, William C. Durant
ChryslerStellantisUnited States1925Walter Chrysler
CitroënStellantis (since 2021)France1919
DodgeStellantis North AmericaU.S.1900
FerrariExor (24.65% equity; 36.48% voting rights), Piero Ferrari (10.48% equity; 15.51% voting rights), Public (58.8% equity; 48.01% voting rights)1939Enzo Ferrari
FiatStellantis EuropeItaly1899Giovanni Agnelli
GenesisHyundai Motor CompanySouth Korea2015
GMCGeneral MotorsU.S.1911William C. Durant
InfinitiNissan1989
JaguarJaguar Land Rover (since 2013)United Kingdom1935
JeepStellantis North AmericaU.S.1943
KiaHyundai Motor CompanySouth Korea1944
LamborghiniAudi AGItaly1963Ferruccio Lamborghini
Land RoverJaguar Land RoverUnited Kingdom1948
LexusToyota Motor Corporation1989Eiji Toyoda
LincolnFord Motor Company (1922–present)U.S.1917
LotusGeely HoldingEngland, United Kingdom1952Colin Chapman
MaseratiStellantis1914Alfieri Maserati
McLarenCYVN Holdings1985Ron Dennis
Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz AG (passenger cars and light commercial vehicles), Daimler Truck (heavy commercial vehicles)Germany1926
MiniBMW AG (2000–present)United Kingdom1959
OpelGeneral Motors (1929–2017), PSA Group (2017–2021), Stellantis (2021–present)Germany1862Adam Opel
PeugeotStellantis1810Armand Peugeot (who incorporated the automotive company in 1896)
PorscheVolkswagen AG (75.4%), Porsche SE (12.5%), QIA (2.5%)1931Ferdinand Porsche, Anton Piëch, Adolf Rosenberger
RamStellantis North America1980
Rolls-RoyceBMWUnited Kingdom1998
SEATVolkswagen Group1950Instituto Nacional de Industria
SkodaVolkswagen GroupCzech Republic1896Václav Laurin and Václav Klement
VauxhallOpel Automobile GmbH1857Alexander Wilson
VolvoGeely Holding (78.7%)1927

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