About Fiat.............

Rani started the thread on Lada cars, and I read a bit on the internet, as well as the much hated Yugo.

WHERE DOES FIAT get all the money to buy up everybody else??

And backed by the ..........FRENCH??

Lada - Wikipedia

Lada (Cyrillic: Лада, recently stylized as LADA) is a brand of cars manufactured by AvtoVAZ (originally VAZ), a Russian company owned by the French Groupe Renault.[1] The first cars manufactured by AvtoVAZ, with technical assistance from Fiat, were marketed under the Zhiguli brand, allegedly chosen after it was suggested by the designer, A. M. Cherny.[2] When the cars began to be exported on foreign markets, the Zhiguli brand was found to be inappropriate, as it was hard to pronounce for non-Russian speakers, and it was said to resemble the word gigolo too closely.[2]