However, this featured the 1. 4 litre engine and mechanical underpinnings of the Brazilian Chevrolet Chevette.

This model was part of GM's family of compact " J-cars ", along with the Ascona, the Australian Holden Camira, the Brazilian Chevrolet Monza, the Japanese Isuzu Aska, and the North American Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, Buick Skyhawk, Oldsmobile Firenza, and Cadillac Cimarron.

Marista Hall, currently named Chevrolet Hall, is a convention centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, created by the Marist Brothers institution UBEE, the Brazilian Association of Education and Teaching.

The " Chevrolet Chevy 500 " was the pickup version of the Brazilian Chevette.

He continued in national and international championships for 7 years, and in 1998 moved into Formula Chevrolet, finishing the Brazilian championship in fifth place.

The first generation Verona was released in November 1989, as Ford's Brazilian subsidiary wanted a stronger competitor for the mid-size segment leader at the time, the Chevrolet Monza, despite being based from a lower segment car.

The Chevrolet Omega is an executive car sold by General Motors do Brasil for the Brazilian market.

The Brazilian version of the GMT400 – the Brazilian Chevrolet Silverado – is powered with a 4. 1 instead of the Vortec 4300 V6.

For the Brazilian market the SOHC-equipped engine is currently a member of both GM Family I and II-the larger model being known as Flexpower and the smaller Econoflex which is available in the 2010 Chevrolet Agile.

Hoffmann's Chevrolet Opala in the Stock Car Brasil | Brazilian Stock Car Championship, 1988

This car was a response to the new sedans in the Brazilian market, the Chevrolet Monza, the Volkswagen Voyage and later the Ford Escort.

The S-series SUVs, so named because they were based on the Chevrolet S-10 and GMC S-15 pickup trucks, were produced in Pontiac, Michigan ; Linden, New Jersey ; Moraine, Ohio ; Shreveport, Louisiana ; and São Paulo, Brazil ( the Brazilian version is based on the second-generation S-series ; even though production ceased in the U. S., new Blazers are locally produced in Brazil with their own sheetmetal stampings ).

In the second facelift, Indonesian version got the same appearance as the Brazilian counterpart, and was also rebadged as Chevrolet.

He previously raced in Formula Opel Euroseries ( 1995 ) and Brazilian Formula Chevrolet ( 1994 ).

The Buick Sail was based on Opel Corsa B, and the body design is shared with the Brazilian Chevrolet Corsa Classic and India's Opel Corsa Joy.

Details of the flexible-fuel vehicle | flex fuel version of the Brazilian Chevrolet Celta.

The new front makes it closer to new Chevrolet models, specially the new Brazilian Vectra.

* Official Brazilian Chevrolet Montana website

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

A strong Brazilian influence was also exercised by the Jesuits in religion and education.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.

It was supported by the city of Porto Alegre ( where it took place ) and the Brazilian Worker's Party.

* Proclamation of the Republic ( 1889 ): End of the Brazilian Empire, this was the first coup d ' état performed by the Brazilian military.

The Foch upon entering service with the Brazilian Navy, was renamed the São Paulo.

In 1944 the Brazilian Air Force joined Allied forces in Italy and operated there for about seven months, this was the FAB baptism in a real conflict.

A Brazilian child was never automatically identified with the racial type of one or both parents, nor were there only two categories to choose from.

It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native influences, probably beginning in the 16th century.

At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.

In little time, in 1890, the recently proclaimed Brazilian Republic decreed the prohibition of capoeira in the whole country, as things were pretty chaotic in the Brazilian capital and many police reports would demonstrate that capoeira was an undeserved advantage in a fight.

As the word Capoeira was still forbidden by Brazilian law, Bimba called his new style Luta Regional Baiana ( meaning regional fight from Bahia ).

Mestre Bimba made a lot of presentations of his new style, but the most well known was the one made at 1953 to Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas, where the president would say: " A Capoeira é o único esporte verdadeiramente nacional " ( Capoeira is the only truly national sport ).

The Southern Cross was included in the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem ( 1909 ): " A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece " (" the image of the Cross shines ").

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960s ( the outbreak of Chagas disease in Brazil in the 1920s went widely ignored ).

It was not until 1971 that the Brazilian Association of Canchim Cattle Breeders ( ABCCAN ) was formed, and on 11 November 1972 the Herd Book was initiated.

Cities would grow in importance and Brazilian people could finally get the permission to manufacture common products once imported from Portugal, like glass.

Brazilian assembly of the Beetle, where it is called " Fusca ", started in 1953, with parts imported from Germany.

The Niva was the first imported 4X4 in the Brazilian market, following then-Brazilian president Fernando Collor's decision to permit the importation of foreign vehicles in 1990.

Brazilian music: Beginning in the 1950s and continuing for several decades, a multitude of Brazilian styles ( most importantly samba ) and imported American jazz combined to create the wildly popular bossa nova scene.

Due to the success of Changeman, other series were imported, such as Choushinsei Flashman, Hikari Sentai Maskman and Dai Sentai Goggle V. In place of later series in the franchise, the yearly iterations of the Power Rangers were dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese due to a general lower interest in tokusatsu programming in Brazil, as well as financial and bureaucratic issues.

A large part of all slaves imported from Africa were bound for the Brazilian colonies.

Founded in 1971 — with the purpose of supplying the Brazilian refrigeration industry which, up until then, relied entirely on imported compressors — Embraco began production in 1974.

The façade of the building is of Brazilian red granite, and the first four floors are finished in pink and white marble, imported wood paneling and decorative tile.

Lada cars started being imported to Brazil in 1990, when the Brazilian president Fernando Collor lifted the ban on car imports.

* habitat restoration, usually through planting of native vegetation combined with invasive exotic species removal directed at imported trees and vines which displace the local ecosystem ; substantial invasive populations include Australian pine, melaleuca, and Brazilian pepper