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Everybody knows that Chevrolet is in the business of manufacturing and selling cars.  But like most successful companies, Chevrolet is retailing more than just automobiles; it’s selling ideas, values, hopes and dreams.  Life is a constant stream of questions and Chevrolet attempts to provide answers.  What is the role of the automobile in the modern family?  How does an automobile impact on an individual’s identity?  How does responsibility for the environment counterbalance a person’s need for mobility?  Thus, Chevrolet can be understood as a response to both America’s tangible need for transportation and the intangible questions in the forefront of the American consciousness.

We here at Tom Bannen admire Americans who are committed to buying American made vehicles.  It isn’t just good for you, it is good for America.  If you have bought a new or used Chevrolet from Tom Bannen, thank you.  We hope you will find this web site inspiring and choose to be a part of it.

Chevrolet is fundamentally American.  Yet few people stop to think about the importance of Chevrolet cars and trucks to both the individual American identity and the larger American economy.  Leo Marx writes in The Machine in the Garden, “…in America hopefulness had been incorporated in a style of life, a culture, a national character.”  Chevrolet can be viewed as both a symbol of where America has been and where it is going.  Americans believe that all their dreams can come true, and that anything they truly want can be attained.  This is the ultimate answer, and we believe Chevrolet is part of both America’s character and dream.

These are some of the reasons why we here at Tom Bannen have created this website (www.mychevyexperience.com).  Primarily, we want the people we admire, the people we are proud of, to be able to tell a little of their story.  As America reclaims itself, it will be the ambitions and dreams of its people that will inspire and transform how America views its own automobiles.  It is awesome and inspiring to see how in so many lives, Chevrolet has played and continues to play a part in the story.