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Latest archived mark · 2013

Chevrolet

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Latest archived mark · 1909

Abbott-Detroit

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What we compare	Chevrolet	Abbott-Detroit
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	November 3, 1911	1909
Founder	Louis Chevrolet, Arthur Chevrolet, William C. Durant	Abbott Motor Company
Headquarters	Detroit, Michigan, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Name origin	The company is named for co-founder Louis Chevrolet, a Swiss-born racing driver and engineer. Louis and his brother Arthur partnered with William C. Durant, the ousted founder of General Motors, to start the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Durant used the new company's profits to buy back control of General Motors a few years later, folding Chevrolet in as a GM division.	The name pairs Abbott, the name of the Abbott Motor Company, with Detroit, the city where the cars were built. The sources consulted do not say who Abbott was, so the exact origin of the surname is not confirmed here. Naming a car after both a maker and a home city was common among early automobile builders.
Selected models	Bel Air, Corvette, Impala, Camaro, Suburban	Fore Door Roadster, Battleship Roadster, Model F, Model L, Model K
Earliest archived brand logo	1911	1909
Latest archived logo	2013	1909
Archived logo assets	15	1

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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