The new company is called Stellantis and creates the world’s fifth-largest car maker (by unit sales) behind Volkswagen (the largest), Toyota, General Motors, and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance.  And it brings together a disparate collection of car badges – some illustrious and prosperous, some barely stuttering along, and some long dead but not yet quite forgotten.

Join us for a close look at them at all. We start with an overview of the two groups as a whole: