Chrysler Brands, Subsidiaries, and Related Companies

The core Chrysler Corporation brands

• Chrysler (as a brand)
• DeSoto (1928-1960)
• Dodge cars
• Dodge trucks
  • Dodge UK commercial trucks
  • Karrier/Dodge trucks in the UK
• Fargo
• Imperial: a separate brand in many years
• Plymouth: the largest division for most of its life (1928-2001)

Some Chrysler Corporation subsidiaries

• Airtemp air conditioning
• Amplex and Oilite® bearings
• Chrysler Marine: Boats
• New Process Gear / New Venture Gear

The adopted companies

• American Motors Corporation
  • Eagle, a short-lived brand (1988-1998)
  • Jeffery Cars and 4x4s: pioneering designs that became part of Nash (small and sophisticated) which joined ...
  • Hudson: reliable and upscale
• Briggs Body: one of the largest car body makers before Chrysler acquired it, Briggs became superfluous when the company moved to unibody construction in 1960.
• Jeep
  • Kaiser, the carmaker that acquired Jeep from Willys-Overland, which developed the Jeep and sold it to civilians
• Rootes Group: Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam
• Simca, makers of the best-selling car in France
• The companies that became Chrysler:
  • Maxwell Motors and Chalmers / E.R. Thomas
  • The other ancestors: Columbia, Riker, U.S. Motor, Courier, etc

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