Car brands: Who owns what?

A road map to the auto industry partnerships

The auto industry has a very confusing family tree. The past few years have seen partnerships, sales, separations, bankruptcies, and entire divisions killed off, making it difficult to keep up with who owns which car brands.

As automakers slim down to become more profitable and efficient, a number of changes have been made in recent years. We have seen storied names, such as Hummer, Mercury, and Pontiac, fade away into the history books. We have seen others, such as Chrysler, Jaguar, and Volvo, find new international corporate parents. And some, such as Aston Martin, remain in flux.

To help clear up some of the confusion, we present a basic road map to navigate who owns which car brands among the major automotive companies that sell in the United States. Of course, the list is definitely subject to change. To find out how the major brands perform, see our brand report cards.

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BMW owns: Mini and Rolls Royce.

Fiat owns: Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Ferrari, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Ram and SRT.

Ford Motor Company owns: Lincoln and a small stake in Mazda.

General Motors owns: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC. GM owns a controlling interest in Opel and Vauxhall in Europe and Holden in Australia. (The U.S. Treasury Department is in the process of selling off the remaining GM stock holidngs.)

Honda owns: Acura.

Hyundai owns: Kia.

Tata Motors (India) owns: Jaguar and Land Rover.

Mazda mostly independently owned (Ford has small stake)

Mitsubishi is independently owned.

Daimler AG owns: Mercedes-Benz and Smart.

Nissan owns: Infiniti. (Nissan, in turn, is owned by Renault.)

Saab is owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS).

Subaru: Owned by Fuji Heavy Industries with Toyota a minority partner.

Tesla: Toyota is a minority partner. Partnership with Daimler AG.

Toyota Motor Company owns: Lexus, Scion, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, with a stake in Fuji Industries (Subaru's parent company) and Isuzu.

Volkswagen owns: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, and overseas-brands SEAT and Skoda.

Volvo is owned by Chinese-automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, aka Geely.

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1) 2014 Lamborghini Veneno
$4,000,000

Let the expletives fly, if not for the cool outrageous badass design, then for the price. The Lamborghini Veneno’s styling is about as extreme as you can get outside a Hot Wheels factory, or a boyhood fantasy. But add in the Lamborghini Veneno’s $4,000,000 price tag (not to mention a production run of just three cars), and any childhood-like excitement turns slowly into sobering reality: you will, unfortunately, never get to drive this car.

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2) 2013 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse
$2,250,000

In a game of one upmanship, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 has kept its price—and top speed—at the top through numerous derivatives. The Grand Sport Vitesse is the last of the batch, offering all the power of the record-breaking Super Sport in the open-top Grand Sport. If its two-and-a-quarter-million price tag doesn’t scare you, its 1,200 horsepower and 255-mile-per-hour top speed will.

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3) 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari
$1,700,000

You balked at the Prius in 1997. You snickered at the Tesla in 2008. Now, you’re clamoring for not just a Ferrari but the Ferrari with battery power. The first Ferrari with hybrid technology just happens to be the most provocative — and the most expensive. From its 949-horsepowr, HYbrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System (HY-KERS)-juiced power plant to a 1.3-million-euro asking price, the LaFerrari, along with two other cars 
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4) 2013 Koenigsegg Agera R
$1,700,000

Using the higher octane and cooling abilities of E85 biofuel to create 1,140 horsepower, theKoenigsegg Agera R is another supercar that proves that environmentally pleasing technologies can benefit gearheads. It will cost you around $200,000 more for the R. No word on how much for the 2014 Agera S.  

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5) 2013 Pagani Huayra
$1,500,000

The 719-horsepower Pagani Huayra actually went up $200,000 for the new year,
securing its spot as one of the world’s most expensive cars.

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6) 2014 McLaren P1
$1,150,000

A million-dollar, carbon-fiber-bodied McLaren has aspirations of becoming the best driver’s car in the world. If it feels as though you are suffering from déjà vu, fear not; it’s not 1993 and the supercar-market bubble isn’t about to burst. It just took us 20 years to catch up to the F1’s astronomical price. Luckily, the P1 takes the reins with an advanced combination of twin-turbo and electric power good for 903 ponies.

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7) 2013 Hennessey Venom GT
$1,000,000

The Hennessey Venom GT may just be the fastest accelerating car in the world, taking home Guinness World Record’s fastest 0–300 km/h record by a production car after hitting 186 miles per hour in just 13.63 seconds. Even at one-million dollars, it sounds like a bargain.

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8) 2014 Porsche 918 Spyder
$845,000

Whether you like to hug tree or curves, the Porsche 918 Spyder has you covered. A 500-horsepower V-8 joins a pair of electric motors for blissful performance even while returning amazing miles to the gallon. Its true test rests, however, in the new crop of supercars using electric motors to enhance performance.

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9) Rolls-Royce Phantom Extended Wheelbase
$470,295

Compared to the other cars on our list, the last two seem downright affordable. That is, until you remember they are still a few options away from half of a million dollars. The Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB takes the already, ahem, pronounced Phantom and stretches it even farther. The result is a massive limousine that’ll eat 20 feet of parking space.

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10) Lamborghini Aventador Roadster
$445,300

Even hefty price tags can’t stop the Lamborghini Aventador Roadster from raking in 15-months’ worth of orders. Blame its voracious V-12 engine, eye-transfixing styling and, now, the fact that shares its components 
with a car costing more than eight times as much. (See the number one car on our list.) That’s one way to make $450,000 feel like a deal. 

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