Thu, 01/05/2012 - 05:00 — Anonymous Artists, designers and luxury hotels
are giving India's iconic automobile a new ticket to ride Show map at bottom
of page Getting into an Ambassador is like getting into a time machine. Since
it was first manufactured by Kolkata-based Hindustan Motors (HM) in the late
1950s in India, as a copy of the Oxford Morris, this automobile has seen few
modifications and stylistic changes. Affectionately called the "Amby" these
cars are jokingly referred to as elephants for their slowness and size, and
remain the wheels of choice for the Indian army officers and and government
ministers. (Resist joke allegorizing the efficiency of the government and
its favorite mobile.) Minister Karan Singh Tanwar claims that the all-white
government Ambassador still commands respect. "I still have a white
Ambassador and I love it," he declares. "It is pure India and total VIP."read
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