"Alan S" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:23:57 +0530, "Guglup"
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"Alan S" wrote in message
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Cheers, Alan, Australia
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Alan,
The information about indian cases on your travelouge
isn't correct.

From the site
There seems to be one major manufacturer of cars in
India - Tata. For about half a century one car was the
flagship of the fleet, the Ambassador.

Tata Motors got into car manufacturing very recently
- the late 90's. Till then they were mainly manufacturing
trucks.

The Ambassador is manufactured by Hindustan
Motors. Ambassador(by HM) & the Padmini(manufactured
by Premier Motos) used to be the only 2 cars you could
see in India earlier. In the 80's, Maruti Suzuki, a joint venture
between the Indian Govt & Suzuki came in & turned the market
on it's head. Maruti is still #1 in the local car market. Tata
Motors is probably #2. Hyundai may be #3. Rest of the market
is Honda, Toyota, Chevy, Ford, Hindustan Motors, Mahindra etc.
Also Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Nissan etc.

Tata Motors got into the car market mainly in the
late 90's with the Indica which is very popular

Hindustan Motors still sells around 50-60 thousand
new Ambassadors every year which still looks the
same from outside. They also manufacture & sell
the Mitsubishi Lancer/Cedia etc.

Premier doesn't sell cars anymore.


Thanks for the correction and clarification. I was obviously
mis-informed:-)

The Ambassadors are almost all bought by the government and used as official
cars.

Which somehow seems a cruel and unusual punishment for honesty, the crooked
officials usually dump them and buy Toyota Land Cruisers...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.