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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....

Hillman Imp
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What Companies Own Which Car Brands?

Guide to Car Brands Available in the United States.

Here we list each major car brand and its parent corporation, including some retired brands whose products are still readily available as used cars.

Brand: Parent Company

Acura: Honda Motor Company
Alfa Romeo: Stellantis
Audi: Volkswagen Group
BMW: BMW Group
Bentley: Volkswagen Group
Buick: General Motors
Cadillac: General Motors
Chevrolet: General Motors
Chrysler: Stellantis
Dodge: Stellantis
Fiat: Stellantis
Ford: Ford Motor Co.
GMC: General Motors
Genesis: Hyundai Motor Group
Honda: Honda Motor Co.
Hyundai: Hyundai Motor Group
Infiniti: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
Jaguar: Tata Motors
Jeep: Stellantis
Kia: Hyundai Motor Group
Land Rover: Tata Motors
Lexus: Toyota Motor Corp.
Lincoln: Ford Motor Co.
Lotus: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Maserati: Stellantis
Mazda: Mazda Motor Corp.
Mercedes-Benz: Daimler AG
Mercury*: Ford Motor Co.
Mini: BMW Group
Mitsubishi: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
Nikola: Nikola Motor Company, with a supply relationship with General Motors.
Nissan: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
Polestar: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Pontiac*: General Motors
Porsche: Volkswagen Group
Ram: Stellantis
Rivian: Rivian Automotive, with investments from Amazon and Ford, among others.
Rolls-Royce: BMW Group
Saab: brand owned by Saab AB; assets owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden
Saturn*: General Motors
Scion*: Toyota Motor Corp.
Smart: Daimler AG
Subaru: Subaru Corp.
Suzuki*: Suzuki Motor Corp. Owns a small stake in Toyota.
Tesla: Tesla Inc.
Toyota: Toyota Motor Corp.
Volkswagen: Volkswagen Group
Volvo: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group

*Retired brand, but many are still sold as used cars.
 
Without a doubt, the most iconic car of the 1970s:

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VW Golf

We had a VW Rabbit that my parents bought brand new in '81. It was a diesel and they drove the life out of that thing, I think just shy of 300k miles when it breathed it's last black fumes.

I learned to drive stick shift in that car.
 
We had a VW Rabbit that my parents bought brand new in '81. It was a diesel and they drove the life out of that thing, I think just shy of 300k miles when it breathed it's last black fumes.

I learned to drive stick shift in that car.

I sold those. I suppose you could call it "iconic" for that gas-deprived era. THe Diesel VW Rabbit with a 5-speed was the undisputed mileage champ in the US at the time.
 
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