SLIDESHOW
The car-making groups with the most brands
More than a century ago, car manufacturers had already started to clump together, and it’s now rare to find any brand that’s not related to at least one other – mainly because economies of scale are perhaps more vital here than in any other industry. Here, we present today’s biggest car groups – some of which also produce other vehicle types and some of which you might not even have heard of.
DAVID FINLAY
Stellantis 14
Like General Motors back in 1908, Stellantis was founded as an umbrella organisation for several existing firms. The process began in 2017, when the PSA Group – owner of Citroën, DS and Peugeot – bought GM’s Opel and Vauxhall siblings. Four years later, this group then merged with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which added Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati and Ram. And it might have been more: Fiat floated Ferrari in 2016 and PSA just missed out on Proton (which at the time owned Lotus) a year later. In addition to this array, Stellantis has inherited a huge catalogue of brands from dead car firms, including DeSoto, Hillman, Humber, Simca, Sunbeam and Talbot.