General Motors produces cars and trucks in 31 countries, and sells and services these vehicles through the following divisions / brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Opel, Vauxhall, and Holden, as well as two joint ventures in China, Shanghai GM and SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile.

* 1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

General Motors introduced the Chevrolet Lumina APV, Oldsmobile Silhouette, and Pontiac Trans Sport in 1990.

* May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

Chevrolet (), also known as Chevy (), is an American brand of vehicle produced by General Motors ( GM ).

Chevrolet was founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, and later acquired by General Motors in 1918.

In North America, Chevrolet sells and produces a wide variety of automobiles, from subcompact cars to medium-duty commercial trucks, whereas in Europe, the brand name is used mainly for automobiles produced in Korea by General Motors.

On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William C. Durant and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ) and in 1912 R. S. McLaughlin GEO of General Motors in Canada.

By 1916, Chevrolet was profitable enough with successful sales of the cheaper Series 490 to allow Durant to repurchase a controlling interest in General Motors.

After the deal was completed in 1917, Durant became president of General Motors, and Chevrolet was merged into GM as a separate division.

In 2005, General Motors re-launched the Chevrolet marque in Europe, using rebadged versions of the Daewoo cars produced by GM Korea.

In late 2010 General Motors began production of the plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt ( and related Opel / Vauxhall Ampera ), which later was announced as the 2012 North American Car of the Year, European Car of the Year and World Green Car of the Year.

For example, the General Motors factory in Arlington, Texas where rear-wheel-drive cars were built, such as the Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Roadmaster, and Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham was converted to truck and SUV production, putting an end to full-size family station wagon and overall terminating production of rear-wheel drive full-size cars.

In 1916, General Motors opened a major Chevrolet automobile factory in East Oakland, making cars and then trucks until 1963, when it was moved to Fremont in southern Alameda County.

Soon after, General Motors began offering automatic seat belts, first on the Chevrolet Chevette, but by early 1979 the VW Rabbit and the Chevette were the only cars to offer the safety feature, and GM was reporting disappointing sales.

At that time, each General Motors division produced its own V8 engines, and in 1977, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac and Buick each produced a unique 350-cubic-inch displacement V8.

GM-AvtoVAZ, a joint venture between AvtoVAZ and General Motors, produces the Chevrolet Niva.

In February 2011 General Motors and GAZ Group signed an agreement on contract assembly of the new Chevrolet Aveo car at GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod.

The 1945 General Motors Van Nuys Assembly Plant, a major manufacturing facility for General Motors's Chevrolet division along with aerospace and defense plants in neighboring cities led to a prosperity which inspired many to call the San Fernando Valley " America's suburb " ( as in Kevin Roderick's book ).

Numerous segments were filmed in and around Flint, including one where Moore uses declassified information to find the exact impact point from the nuclear ICBM that targeted the city ( ground zero was Chevrolet Assembly, one of the General Motors plants at Bluff & Cadillac Streets ).

General Motors has an assembly plant in Bowling Green in which all Chevrolet Corvettes have been constructed since 1981 and Cadillac XLRs were being built there until production ended in the spring of 2009.

In 1981, General Motors moved its Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant from St. Louis, Missouri to Bowling Green.

In 1982, he returned to Detroit as General Manager of Chevrolet.

The Monte Carlo was conceived by Elliot M. ( Pete ) Estes, general manager of Chevrolet, and Chevrolet's chief stylist, Dave Holls.

Though the Monte Carlo was developed at Chevrolet under the leadership of Pete Estes, it was formally introduced in September, 1969 by John Z. DeLorean, who succeeded Estes as Chevrolet's general manager earlier in the year after previously heading the Pontiac division, where he led the development of the similar-bodied 1969 Grand Prix introduced the previous model year.

In 1961, Knudsen had moved to Chevrolet and Estes had taken over as general manager.

Estes then announced a new car line, project designation XP-836, with a name that Chevrolet chose in keeping with other car names beginning with the letter C such as the Corvair, Chevelle, Chevy II, and Corvette.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the Henry Ford and Louis Chevrolet of their times, who capitalized on ideas already commonly known before they started in the business.

Dillon again returned to a number 3 marked racecar when he started 5th in the 2012 Daytona Nationwide Series opener in an Advocare sponsored black Chevrolet Impala.

Clare MacKichan's design team, along with designers from Pontiac, started to establish basic packaging and dimensions for their shared 1958 General Motors A body in June ; the first styling sketch that would directly influence the finished Chevrolet product caught the eye of General Motors Styling vice president Harley Earl in October.

With little in the way of a formal education, Chevrolet learned car design while working for Buick and started designing his own engine for a new car in 1909.

In 1916, he and younger brothers Gaston and Arthur Chevrolet started Frontenac Motor Corporation, designing and producing a line of racing cars.

The seventh generation production started in 2001, displacing the Chevrolet Vectra from the top sales record for the mid-size sedan segment, however it lost that position to the Toyota Corolla the following year.

In 1976, Gatorade became Waltrip ’ s primary sponsor as he started his first full race season at age 29, driving the DiGard Gatorade Chevrolet.

In anticipation of a repeat of the post First World War economic recession, GM started the " Chevrolet Cadet " project ( a compact car intended to sell for less than ), that ran from 1945 to 1947, to extend the Chevrolet range downwards in the U. S. Chevrolet head of engineering Earle S. MacPherson was in charge of development.

The Corvair Monza was followed by the Ford Mustang, introduced in 1964, establishing the " pony car " class which included Corvair's replacement, the Chevrolet Camaro in 1967, expanding the domestic pony car market segment started in mid-1960s.

In 1968, Lear also started work on a closed circuit steam turbine to power cars and buses, and built a transit bus and converted a Chevrolet Monte Carlo sedan to use this turbine system.

He started " Project Opel ", which eventually became the Chevrolet Corvette, and he authorized the introduction of the tailfin to automotive styling.

A mid-1990s article in the magazine Chevrolet High Performance stated that the first generation Monte Carlo was known to Chevrolet management under the working name Concours ( a usual practice was that all Chevrolet model development names started with a " C ").

Then, he started Mirak Chevrolet in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1936.

He opened Douglas McKay Chevrolet Co. in 1927, and later started a Cadillac dealership as well.

Once the series started ( Fall 1984 ), during the first season, Hunter drove a junker 1972 Chevrolet Impala, a junker 1971 Chevrolet Nova, an old 1974 Plymouth Satellite and a junker 1979 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.

Busch started the first race of the Chase mid-pack in the 43 car field at the New Hampshire International Speedway but got caught up in an incident on lap four when he and the # 66 Best Buy Chevrolet of Jeff Green made contact, knocking his front suspension out of line, and eventually spun out and wrecked the car.

As General Motors entered the 1920s, the product ladder started with the price-leading Chevrolet marque, and then progressed upward in price, power and appointments to Oakland, Oldsmobile, Buick and ultimately to the luxury Cadillac marque.

Gordon started the 2001 season for driving for Morgan-McClure Motorsports in the No. 4 Kodak Chevrolet, but was replaced by Kevin Lepage after only five races.