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In May 2012, Chevrolet announced a sponsorship agreement in which the company would purchase and donate one and a half million One World Futbols. [1] Tim Jahnigen stated that he intends to eventually manufacture a version of every inflated sports ball using the damage resistant foam. [4]
Chevrolet (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ v r ə ˈ l eɪ / SHEV-rə-LAY), colloquially referred to as Chevy, is an American automobile division of the manufacturer General Motors (GM).. Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946) and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant (1861–1947) started the company on November 3, 1911 [2] as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
[16] [17] As part of the update, Test Track's sponsor became General Motors' Chevrolet marque instead of GM as a whole. [16] The new additions include a pre-show area where guests "design" a new car for testing in the Chevrolet Design Center, then they board Test Track's existing six-passenger ride vehicles, to be known as "SimCars", to see how ...
The Chevrolet Zafira was the first product produced by GM Thailand. Modelled after GM's Eisenach plant in Germany, [10] the Rayong plant was scheduled to produce 100,000 to 150,000 vehicles annually, with 80 percent of these to be exported. The plant was opened in May 2000, producing the Chevrolet Zafira. [1]
This was the first year for the new series sponsorship. Mobile phone provider Nextel assumed sponsorship of the NASCAR championship series from cigarette brand Winston . Winston was the title sponsor of the Cup Series for 33 seasons, from 1971 to 2003.
Jeff Gordon's No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet at Las Vegas in 2012, the No. 24's 20th and final season of DuPont sponsorship. At the start of the 2011 season, a HMS organizational shuffle saw Gordon, the No. 24 and his sponsors move to the 5/88 shop, with Mark Martin's former crew chief Alan Gustafson becoming crew chief of the No. 24 team.
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A 1932 Pontiac. Established in 1926 as a companion of Oakland, it was the first marque released as part of the companion make program. Sloan, who had replaced du Pont as GM president in 1923, [18] decided to create various "companion makes" to fill the variety of gaps that had developed in the original pricing hierarchy. [19]