Chevrolet officially joins the automotive market in 1911, competing with the Ford Model T.
Chevrolet, sometimes known informally as Chevy and formally as the Chevrolet Subsidiary of General Motors Company, is an American vehicle division of the American company General Motors (GM). The Chevrolet brand would go on to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, offering mainstream automobiles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and eventually overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.
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