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Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C.

Durant started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.

Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency.

After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose," would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.

A sport utility vehicle or suburban utility vehicle (SUV) is a vehicle classified as a light truck, but operated as a family vehicle.

They are similar to a large station wagon or estate car, usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability.

Some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or large sedan.

A car is a wheeled, self-powered motor vehicle used for transportation and a product of the automotive industry.

Most definitions of the term specify that cars are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels with tyres, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.

The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car.

In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

Cars did not become widely available until the early 20th century.

One of the first cars that was accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.

Cars were rapidly adopted in the United States of America, where they replaced animal-drawn carriages and carts, but took much longer to be accepted in Western Europe and other parts of the world.

A crossover or crossover utility vehicle (CUV) is a vehicle built on a car platform and combining, in highly variable degrees, features of a sport utility vehicle (SUV) with features from a passenger vehicle, especially those of a station wagon or hatchback.

A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people.

Depending on the type of van it can be bigger or smaller than a truck and SUV, and bigger than a common car.

There is some varying in the scope of the word across the different English-speaking countries.

The smallest vans, microvans, are used for transporting either goods or people in tiny quantities.

Mini MPVs, Compact MPVs, and MPVs are all small vans usually used for transporting people in small quantities.

Larger vans with passenger seats are used for institutional purposes, such as transporting students.

Larger vans with only front seats are often used for business purposes, to carry goods and equipment.

Specially-equipped vans are used by television stations as mobile studios.

Postal services and courier companies use large step vans to deliver packages.