During the 1990s Volkswagen
acquired Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti. VW also owns Audi,
Ducati Motorcycles, MAN (Uzbekistan), Scania, Porsche, SEAT (Spain),
and Skoda (Czech) brands, as well as 19.9% of Suzuki. All together,
Volkswagen owns 340 subsidiary companies, with 550,000 employees.
Interesting to know that Porsche produced the first VW Beetle. Seems
VW transformed itself from beetle to elephant.
Other interesting brand owners:
BMW owns: BMW, Mini, and Rolls Royce.
Fiat owns: Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Ferrari, Jeep, Lancia,
Maserati, and Ram.
Hyundai owns: Hyundai, Kia. (It is pronounced Hun-Day, like Sunday)
Tata Motors (India) owns: Tata, Jaguar, and Land Rover.
Renault owns Nissan, which owns Infiniti.
Toyota owns: Lexus, Scion, Daihatsu, Hino Motors, Isuzu, and a stake
in Fuji Industries (Subaru's parent).
Geely owns Volvo (Chinese Zhejiang Geely Holding Group).