Want to understand how manufacturers in the entire world worked together? Read the following in one breath of air.
Porsche owns Volkswagen, which in turn Volkswagen also owns Seat, Skoda, Audi, which also owns Lamborghini, Volkswagen also owns Man AG, with which holds a major share in Scania, with which was taken over by Volkswagen last week. Volkswagen also own Bugatti and Bentley, which Volkswagen initially bought Bentley together with Rolls Royce's entire facility and operations except losing the brand name itself to BMW, which bought Rover for 10 Billion pounds, and later own sold Rover itself for 10 pounds but remained Land Rover and Mini with which BMW took all technology from Land Rover to develop the X5 and sold off Land Rover to Ford, which owns Volvo, Mercury and Lincoln and 33% of Mazda, and recently sold off Aston Martin to a U.A.E Consortium joint venture with Prodrive, and Ford also sold Land Rover and Jaguar to Tata, which is the manufacturer of the cheap Nano, with which might be branded a Fiat in Italy, with which Fiat owns Lancia, Maserati and Alfa Romeo, which owns Ferrari, with which Ferrari is in very close relationship with Pininfarina, which also designs cars for Hyundai, which owns KIA, where KIA's engines are jointly developed by Mitsubishi, which is owned by Daimler, which also owns Smart, Maybach and Mercedes Benz which supplies engines to SsangYong, Mercedes also previously owns Chrysler, which owns Dodge, Jeep, and had joint venture developments with BMW, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and Nissan, which Nissan collaborated with Samsung, who's cars are re-branded Nissan, which 40% was owned by Renault, which owns Dacia as well, and had 30% of their stocks in Nissan's hands, which owns Infiniti, that rivals the Lexus, which was owned by Toyota, which also owns Isuzu and Daihatsu, which owns 51% of Perodua which is the second manufacturer in Malaysia after Proton, which once own MV Augusta and Husqvarna, which MV Augusta was sold to Harley Davidson and Husqvarna sold to BMW, which had a joint venture with Peugeot which owns Citroen, in engine development, and a partnership with Fiat recently, which had just recently being compensated by GM for calling off a joint venture, with which GM owns Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, Opel, Vauxhall, Saturn, Suzuki, Holden, Hummer, Saab and Chevrolet, which owns Daewoo, that used to have collaborations with KIA, which had a joint venture with DongFeng in China, that involves Honda, which owns Acura, ONLY, making Honda having the least one night stands
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Friday, July 25, 2008
One Night Stands Amongst Manufacturers
2008-07-25T15:43:00+08:00
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