[pjc50]

This shows the durability of brands despite the buyouts of the last few decades that have collapsed them all into the same car company. I really do not like this trend, I think it's been bad for innovation and consumers. Real innovation has had to come from outside - from China, such as startup BYD ("build your dream", previously Xi'an Qinchuan Automobile Co).

> Opel, Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall, Alfa Romeo and Fiat

All of those had long separate histories before Stellantis. Although when I checked Vauxhall/Opel (basically the same cars except Vauxhall is the UK branding) have been GM subsidiaries since the 1920s!

PSA Peugeot Citroën merger was in 1976.

Daimler-Benz + Chrysler merger was in 1998.

Fiat Chrysler merger was in 2014.

Stellatis was the merger of PSA Peugeot Citroën and Fiat Chrysler in 2021.