The history of Chevrolet

Chevrolet, also known as Chevy brand vehicle produced by General Motors (GM). Founded by Louis Chevrolet and GM c. ousted founder William Durant November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918. Chevrolet introduced Sloan to sell some of the main vehicles to compete directly with Henry Ford Model T in 1920 with "Chevrolet" or "Chevy", sometimes associated with GM in North America, Chevrolet sells and manufactures a wide range of cars, in the field after heavy stock.

November 3, 1911, race car driver and designer Louis Chevrolet Motor Company car company FogCreek William C. Durant (founder of General Motors dismissed) and partners William little investment (the creation of a small car) and Dr. Edwin P. Campbell (son-in-Duran).

Durant was ousted from the leadership of General Motors in 1910. I took the Flint Wagon Works, which includes Mason and small businesses. As head of Buick Motor Company on the basis of the GM had committed to during drive a Chevrolet Buick Louis in promotional races. Durand Chevrolet is considering using a reputation as a player as the basis for his new company car.

Design work for the first round expensive Chevy Classic Six was developed Etienne Planche, in accordance with the instructions of his friend Louis. C, the first prototype was ready by month actually included Chevrolet.

Chevrolet first used the symbol Bowtie logo in 1913. It is designed wallpaper Over time you've seen at the hotel. Recent studies of the historian, Ken Kaufman presents a convincing argument for the logo is based on the logo for "coalettes". Others argue that the project was stylized star in honor of Swiss parents Chevrolet country.

Louis Chevrolet had differences with Durant over design and in 1915 sold its stake in the company Durant. In 1916, Chevrolet was profitable for the company to allow buy Duran's participation in enough control General Motors. After the operation was completed in 1917, Durant was president of General Motors and Chevrolet was merged GM as a separate unit. In 1917, the Chevrolet factory was located in New York, Tarrytown, NY, Flint (Michigan). Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, Oakland, California, Fort Worth, Texas, and Oshawa, Ontario. In 1918, Chevrolet introduced the Model D, powered by a V8 model in the four passenger roadster and five passengers Tourer models. Also started to produce OHV six lines. Most car era was only a few engines compression ratio with flat head screws. These cars were 288in3 55 hp (41 kW) engines with Zenith carburetors and 3 speed.

Chevrolet in 1920 and continued to compete with the Chrysler Corporation and Ford has created a brand new 1928 Plymouth, Plymouth, Ford and Chevrolet were known as the "three" low. In 1933, Chevrolet began six standard was announced in the U.S. as a good six-cylinder car for sale.

Chevrolet had a great influence on the U.S. market, the car in 1950. In 1953, the Corvette sports made by the body fiberglass double. In 1957, Chevrolet introduced its first fuel-injected engine, passenger cars aviation Rochester on the Corvette, and $ 484. They were introduced in 1960 Corvair with the rear mounted air-cooled engines. In 1963, one of ten cars sold in the United States was a Chevrolet.

Chevrolet small block V8 has remained the basic design of the continuous production since its inception in 1955, more than any other engine piston engine in the world, although the current versions of a few, if any spare parts of the original. The children of the primary development platform, small-block OHV V8 in production today have changed significantly advance, for example, an aluminum block and heads, the sequence control engine electronic fuel injection, to name a few. Children's small block V-8 LT V-8, and has no effect on the project with LS V-8, which are always installed in the Chevrolet. Depending on the type of vehicles are built Chevrolet V-8 with an output of 111 394 movements from 4.3 to 9.4 liters (83,066 kilowatts) Power 994 (395 kW) as a meadow. The engine is also used for many years in GM products manufactured and sold by Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Hummer, Opel (Germany) and the model of Holden (Australia).