so a few people i kno have just gotten new nice Lexuses and i told them they were just toyotas and they seemed to be peeved about it ha haha. i mean they're nice cars, but they are toyota manufactured. so i decided to post a pic i made from wikipedia to show which companies really own other companies. quite interesting if you ask me. click on the full size pic and check out the list, i thinq you'll be quite surprized:


here's how some of this breaks down:

• Porsche holds a 20% stake in the Volkswagen Group (30.97% voting rights), as of 2006-12-31.
• The Renault-Nissan alliance involves two global companies linked by cross-shareholding, with Renault holding 44.3% of Nissan shares, and Nissan holding 15% of (non-voting) Renault shares.
• Ford holds a 33.9% stake in Mazda. and an 8.3% share in Aston Martin.

• Hyundai Motor Co. holds a 38.67% stake in Kia Motors.

• Daimler AG holds a 19.9% stake in Chrysler Holding LLC.

• General Motors still holds a 3% stake in Suzuki. Suzuki is also partner with GM in GMDAT and CAMI.

• The Volkswagen Group holds a 37.73% stake in Scania (68.6% voting rights).

• Renault holds 20.5% of the voting stakes in Volvo Group.

• Toyota holds a 51% stake in Daihatsu hence having a controlling interest in the company, and 16.5% in Fuji Heavy Industries, parent company of Subaru.