Time for an update of the Automotive Family Tree
by Merritt Johnson (RSS feed) on Mar 30th, 2008 at 7:01AM
In the automotive world, seven degrees of separation does not apply. If you connect all the major players via their joint ventures, licensing agreements and percentage-stakes of ownership, the degrees of separation should be reduced to something more like two. Visualizing these connections is difficult, but thanks to someone with way too much time on his or her hands, we don't have to. The colorful automotive family tree to the right breaks down the large automotive parental groups and their various children. GM takes up the most space on the chart, dwarfing Toyota. The chart also... Read More
