Maxus is British by birth and Chinese by ownership.
SAIC bought the MAXUS brand assets out of LDV, in its own words 「2009年超级而生，上汽集团全面收购LDV公司MAXUS品牌资产」 — "in 2009 SAIC Group wholly acquired the MAXUS brand assets of LDV".
Where it sits
Two levels. A figure marks a company boundary crossed; a word means the figure was never published.
Maxus
130 years, two owners
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1896 SAIC dates the MAXUS line to 1896 on its own brand-history page, titled 百年传奇 — "a century-old legend" — which opens 「1896年传奇起源」 and traces the business through Leyland, Freight Rover, Leyland DAF and LDV to the Maxus van of 2004. The Chinese company that builds them today, 上汽大通汽车有限公司, was incorporated on 21 March 2011.
- 2009 SAIC bought the MAXUS brand assets out of LDV, in its own words 「2009年超级而生，上汽集团全面收购LDV公司MAXUS品牌资产」 — "in 2009 SAIC Group wholly acquired the MAXUS brand assets of LDV". LDV had gone into administration that year; SAIC incorporated 上汽大通汽车有限公司 to build the vans in March 2011.
SAIC Motor
6 marques
No car is sold as an SAIC: the names it owns outright include MG, which stayed British in everything but ownership, while the joint ventures on its own subsidiary list build Volkswagens and Buicks for China. Shanghai's city government controls it through an unlisted parent company rather than holding the shares itself.