The e-Amby: First by accident then by design


Dilip Chhabria tells TURN OF SPEED that he did 674 iterations of the e-Amby and now Jeremy Clarkson wants to feature it on his TV show

11/04/2020

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Dilip Chhabria’s latest design of the e-Amby in Pearl Charcoal Grey, has garnered a lot of interest on social media. Take a look at the picture below and you will know exactly what we’re talking about. The e-Amby is Chhabria’s interpretation of the good old, Hindustan Ambassador car, in a brand-new avatar, and it has come out of DC’s design studio, which is now called DC2. If you know anything about DC Design, you will know that every single product that comes out of from there, is niche and stands out like no other. In fact, it is so niche that it even piqued Jeremy Clarkson’s curiosity whose office called up Chhabria’s office to ask “if they could use pictures of the e-Amby” on his TV show “and if the car could be sent to him where he was shooting at the moment,” divulges Chhabria. Cut to 2015. You may remember Dilip Chhabria’s coupe-styled sports car, Avanti, which had a lot riding on it and despite having gone through the entire homologation process, failed to yield the desired results. “Sports cars everywhere are preferred in manual transmission but we realized that Indians liked Automatic transmission… we really didn’t expect this consumer

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