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DC Design Avanti is India’s First Sports Car, will Enter Production in 2013
The Italian automotive industry is renowned not only for supercar-making companies like Ferrari and Lamborghini, but also for its carrozzerias like Pininfarina and Bertone, which design and engineer cars for other automakers as well as manufacture their own limited production models. The Indian automotive industry, on the other hand, is best known as the country that manufactures the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano, which may or may not lose the title to the Bajaj RE60.
While Italy is safe for now (…), India will soon have its own sport car thanks to DC Design’s Avanti that was launched at the 2012 New Delhi Auto Expo.
Founded by former GM designer Dilip Chhabria, DC Design is mostly known for its one-off prototypes. The Avanti, however, is a production ready sports car that will be manufactured at the company’s brand new plant at Talagon near its existing Prune facilities.
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Dc Design Avanti Sports Car Ready For Production
A little over two years since DC Design revealed what it described at the time as India's first indigenous sports car, and the company says it's now ready to place the Avanti into production, beginning from the third quarter of the year. Read...
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Dc Design's New Pint-sized Tia Roadster Priced At $28,700
Former GM designer Dilip Chhabria and his India-based concept, coach-building and soon-to-be, niche car manufacturing company, DC Design, arrived at the Delhi Auto Expo 2014 with a world premiere of a new open-top production car named Tia. Read more...
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Bajaj Re60 Wants To Steal The Title Of The World’s Cheapest Car From Tata Nano
You may never have heard of Bajaj Auto, but the Pune-based company is a major Indian vehicle manufacturer that dates back to 1945. It operates in some 50 countries and built its 10 millionth vehicle in 1995. Now, the “auto†in its name has...
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Tata Nano: World's Most Affordable Car Receives A $4.6 Million Gold Treatment [with Videos]
When Ratan Tata revealed the $2,500 Nano mini car in India in January 2008, the owner and Chairman of Tata Motors, made headlines the world over with the world’s cheapest car. Three years later the Nano has faced a spontaneous-combusting debacle...
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Spontaneous Combusting Nanos? Another Tata Goes Up In Flames
Tata Motors' Nano city car is once again making headlines in India, but not for the reasons you might think. Following three separate cases in 2009 when owners of the Nano in Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Delhi reported seeing smoke and flames coming out...
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