Automotive Family Tree

If the current state of the automotive industry leaves you scratching your head, you’re not alone.  TooManyCars has taken as much information as any person could singlehandedly managed and built a “family tree” attempting to view the relationships between every car manufacturer they could find.

Welcome to version 3.0 of the “Family Tree” style diagram of who owns who (or is it whom) in the automotive world. In this version of the “Family Tree”, I’ve added more categories: Heavy Trucks and Chinese made automobiles. The diagram now shows 130 different vehicle manufactures from US, Europe, India, Asia, Russia and China. I’ve read that there is more than 80 different vehicle manufactures in China. I made the decision not to list all of them, but the ones I included are among the top 40 manufactures in the world.

It’s a nightmarish interconnection showing how the various collaborations, ownerships, stock trades, and buyouts have interconnected the industry in a tangled spiderweb.

via Automotive Family Tree.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .