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Produced by General Motors Company, Chevrolet offers 18 vehicles and many different enhanced versions in its home market.

Its vehicles range from subcompact cars to medium-duty commercial trucks. Its number one seller in the United States is the Silverado pickup.

Louis Chevrolet was a race-car driver, and William Durant, founder of General Motors, had been forced out of GM in 1910. He wanted to use Chevrolet's designs to rebuild his own reputation.

As head of Buick Motor Company, prior to founding GM, Durant had hired Chevrolet to drive Buicks in promotional races.

Chevrolet had a great influence on the American automobile market during the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1957, Chevy made the first fuel-injected engine.In 1963, one out of every 10 cars sold in the US was a Chevrolet.

The basic Chevrolet small-block V-8 design has remained in continuous production since its debut in 1955, longer than any other mass-produced engine in the world, although current versions share few parts, if any, interchangeable with the original. Descendants of the small-block V-8 are still installed in Chevrolet vehicles.

Until 2005, Chevrolet Europe sold a few models, mostly US domestic market models modified to suit European regulations. Other more powerful models were sold by Chevrolet Europe such as the Camaro, the Beretta, the Corvette, the Blazer, and the TrailBlazer.

The current generation of North American-built Chevrolet Impala V-8 sedans, or saloons, has also been available in Europe in recent years, marketed as both large family sedans and more economically-priced alternatives to Jaguars and BMWs as high performance executive cars.

Because the Chevrolet brand now represents value-driven cars in Europe, the Corvette name was made into a separate brand for Europe and Japan.

The current range of seven models include the Aveo, the Captiva, the Lacetti (available in saloon or station wagon), the Matiz, the Epica and the Cruze.

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The Chevrolets found in the UK come from what used to be Daewoo in Korea.

The traditional American Chevrolet is gradually now being merged with the Korean operation to create a global economy car brand.

Chevrolet is part of GM’s efforts to develop more environmentally-friendly cars.

The Volt, a concept car, is a plug-in hybrid which has a conventional engine but this only acts as a generator to recharge the batteries – it never drives the wheels directly.

If GM succeeds in developing a fuel cell car there will definitely be a Chevrolet version.