The first passenger car called the Chevrolet Classic Six was released on 3 October 1911. Unfortunately, demand from buyers, he did not — four-seater with a 30-horsepower six-cylinder motor was sold for $ 2,500, which was a little expensive for the mass motorist. It reaffirmed the law of the car business — maximum profit is not expensive, short-run limousines and cheap mass machine. Therefore, the following cars have become cheap cars with four-cylinder engines, released in 1914, is a sports car coupe Royal Mail and Baby.
The success of these units prompted Duran to Orient Cevrolet Motor Cars to create even more cheap and even more massive cars. The result was an edition of the famous Cevrolet 490 of issue of 1916. By the way, the figure of the brand of the car meant not the serial number of the model and not the engine displacement, and its price is $ 490, which was only slightly more expensive “Tin Lizzie”, the famous and extremely popular Ford Compact So Cevrolet 490 with a spring suspension was fitted with a four-cylinder 2.8-liter engine and three-stage gearbox, but unlike the “Tin Lizzie” it had electric lights and starter, which at that time was equipped with basically only expensive cars. The success of this machine Duran finally convinced of the need to specialize Cevrolet Motor Cars to create a simple, inexpensive and mass cars.
The first mass-market car company Chevrolet 490. Digital index in the name of the machine corresponds to its price in dolar.
In 1917 Cevrolet Motor Cars has teamed up with General Motors and in the future most of the vehicles produced by the concern with popular with buyers Golden cross on the radiator grille. Conveyors with companies of the group went compact cars and trucks, luxury limousines and moderately cheap business class, and during the Second world war Cevrolet received a government order for the manufacture of aircraft engines of type Pratt&Whitney, shell casings for 75-mm ammunition, parts and components for 90-mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as for the production of military trucks and other equipment.
Truck world war II Chevrolet 409.
During the war years the firm Cevrolet first experienced their hand in the production of AWD vehicles, and in 1955, on the basis of pre-war polugratsii-palodia created a universal car Suburban, the design of which is quite consistent with the concept of a comfortable SUV.
First real jeep SUV Chevrolet company historians autostructure call To all-wheel-drive Chevrolet Blazer from 1969, created using the chassis of full-size pickup. Machine although there were less than Suburban, but its capacity was almost the same, but the manoeuvrability was significantly improved.
Chevrolet eight-Tracks of issue 1947 — the predecessor of the “large SUV’s”.
Postwar Chevrolet Suburban — the predecessor of motoring.
Another SUV Chevrolet Blazer S-10 appeared in 1983 and soon became the market leader four-wheel drive vehicles. In the mid 1980-ies in the production program of the company appeared two cars with the same name — Blazer S/T with a length of 4.3 m Blazer and S/K with a length of 4,7 m.
A new generation of AWD vehicles with the names Blazer and Suburban have produced the firm in 1992. V. 1995 updated Blazer received the honorary title of “SUV of the year”.
Chevrolet Suburban — “the big wagon” of the 1990s.
In the era of globalization Chevrolet company, Detroit subsidiary of General Motors, produces cars of almost all classes and types in many countries of the world: Argentina and Korea, the U.S. and Canada, Mexico and Brazil. No exception from this list and Russia — in our country today produced two cars with a gilded cross on the grille is a Chevrolet Niva and Chevrolet Viva.
In 2002, the South Korean firm Daewoo was placed under the jurisdiction of General Motors, changing its name to GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co, a brand manufactured by the cars — Chevrolet DAT. So, the European (including Russian) the market received four new models under the brand Chevrolet — Aveo, Lacetti, Evanda and Rezz, and in 2005 started serial production
the updated subcompact Matiz — Chevrolet Spark.
Cooperation branch Chevrolet DAT and the parent company of Chevrolet, gradually deepened, and the number of Korean cars in the production program first. One of the last such car was the crossover Chevrolet Captiva, Chevrolet designers developed a DAT specifically for the European market.
The premiere of this car took place at the Geneva motor show 2006. To the surprise of the audience, the new car was not a huge American SUV, and the compact seven-seater family SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle — sportsnutrition car), in other words — asphalt SUV.
The appearance of the crossover Chevrolet Captiva.
Not all know that Louis-Joseph Chevrolet, whose name is famous American car company, and millions released it the car does was neither the owner of the company, nor a car designer.