GM & Ford's competitors - just how many are there?

I was walking through a store parking lot the other day and saw yet another foreign car. This one was made by Daewoo. I didn't even know that they made cars. Aside from the european sports car makers and the Chinese, (who won't be selling cars here until, I've read, the end of the decade), just how many foreign car makers are out there competing with GM, Ford and Chrysler? Let's not get started on bashing the hapless American car companies, but who do they compete with and what are they competing with? Toyota and Hond have, literally, decades of proof of their reliability, dependability and resale value to their credit. A coworker of mine bought a Kia when tempted with a 100,000 mile or 10 year warranty. And his previous car was a Honda Accord that he'd been driving for at least 10 years. It seems as if there are about a dozen Asian brands out there but it's difficult to keep track of them all. :blink:

 

I know what you mean, Tempus. Here it the Detroit area it's still not a clear cut issue as to whether Chrysler is American or German. It depends on your definition, I suppose. I was just ahead of Dieter Zetsche in the line at Lowes last year. He was there with his teenage son. It happened that they were behind me again at the stop sign on the way out before getting on to Telegraph Road and he was driving a Mercedes SUV. Whenever I see a Mercedes now I wonder if it's a Chrysler exec; when I see a Saab, I think 'GM exec' and a Jaguar could mean a Ford exec. I didn't know that Daewoo was GM. I don't pay as close attention to who owns what since I'm not in the American car industry but the lines are so blurred these days that it's difficult to tell the players without a scorecard.