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Frank @ Mar 30th 2008 8:10AM
Actually FIAT takes up almost as much room as GM. The three biggest conglomerates (by number of companies) are GM, FIAT, and Volkswagen.
Now what we need is for someone to put together a time line chart for all the auto companies showing how some were merged into or bought out for others, similar to this one that for computer languages:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/ComputerLanguagesChart-med.png
Frank @ Mar 30th 2008 8:12AM
Sorry, that should be "bought out by others, similar to this one for computer languages:"
When are we going to get an editing feature?
why not the LS2LS7? @ Mar 30th 2008 3:20PM
There's one for British Leyland. And since British Leyland owned every significant British marque at one time or another, it functions pretty well as a history of the British portion of the auto industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Leyland