How Socialist Ambassador Ruined Whole Auto Industry and Exploited Indians? License raj!
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- Have you ever wondered why we don't have any other car than an ambassador in the past, why Hindustan motors never changed its looks and engine for decades, or why it couldn't compete with new cars when the market opened in 1991?
in this video, I've explained how all of this happened due to license raj and govt. policies
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@Harsh Arora this is why education is important
Complete your 4grade education
@@Aegon_Targaryen well said
@Harsh Arora dhruv rather bhakt
Full support to you bro
Dobara aisi video mat karo.
I never knew that Hindustan Motors had an R&D team 😂
Same
😂
And 250 employees are too much
and I wonder what did those 250 people do daily?
Man, I had the same question once I heard the first line🤣
*This licence raj is reason why older generation forced us for govt jobs and doesn't let us to become an entrepreneur. Licence raj destroys entrepreneurship culture in India*
Older Govt is the reason why Karela is bitter and you are jobless.
@@AmritZoad kerala doesn't have jobs either. Your state is heavily dependent on gulf countries.
Like there was entrepreneurial spirit before Nehru 😂. Zara caste system ke bare mein seekh lo
@@yj9032 caste system has nothing to do with it. Only if India adopted capitalist system then we would be rich like east asian countries. Caste system would have been erased due to liberalism.
@@yj9032 socialism is main reason for India's situation
Back in 2008, I got a job offer from HM in my college placement. During the interview rounds I asked one of the panelists why there are no changes in the design or no new models coming out of HM. The response was hilarious. They said, the car was designed in such a way that even changing anything as fine as a hair would disrupt the fine balance of the Ambassador car.
Thankfully I never joined them and they got shut down some years later.
Lol...🤣
Matlab kuch samjha nahi
How much did they offer! 😂😂
Now, I really want to know its aerodynamic properties . Fkk even formula f1 has ro learn from them
Cause it rocked.
No Nehrubhakt harmed in this video
Bro saare nehru bhakt bahut socialist or communist mindset ke log hai jo ki bas yahi sochte hai ki desh me koi Amir aadmi nahi hona chahiye aur sab ki income lagbhag equal hona chahiye. In logo ka mindset se lekar speech sun leta hu to khun khaul uthta hai😢
@@spy4623so you are in love with income inequality isn't it?
Ultra rich billionaires control everything and things like "choice" and rule of law are illusions. Just wait till India becomes just like US, where everything including Healthcare is controlled by billionaires and corporations. Rich people can get off the hooks of law just by their influence and political connections. Is this what we really want?
You are either a privileged person or just delusional if you think income inequality is good fir anybody.
If you feel useless, remember that Hindustan Motors had an R&D team of 250.
They were spending time in the free meals canteen of the company 😀
What were the force of 250 doing?
After making minor tweaks in parking lamp front grill and tail lamp lens.
Reverse light was luxury which the customer had to fit after purchasing.
The whole body of the car had to be rewelded for reliability.
Door mirrors was a big luxury.
R&D to apply "bania buddhi"
R&D team of HM were like in "sarkari naukri hai bhai" mood!
GTRE (DRDO) is developing fighter plane engine Kaveri for last 40 years. Billions wasted but no solution. Tejas was initially supposed to be with Kaveri engine but finally using imported I think GE engine.
Ambassador car represent Congress era of darkness... corruption, impotent leaders, nepotism, etc even Pakistan was doing much better than India economically then..
Ok, can you name a Pakistani company that made cars? I don't like congress either, but India is India. We made our own fighter jet when those as*holes were using the US jets. Pls don't compare our country with a rogue nation like Pakistan. By the way... They don't have a single car brand.
@Indian Patriot lodi chicha got acche din guys
arey they still wanting to take India back 10-20 years. They are fighting to break the high speed roads and giving false promises to farmers that those lands on which roads are built can be used for farming and congress will give them that. This party just want money from us and does not want to see any advancement anywhere.
Well this govt are also imposing hefty taxes through gst though
@@Adi_98_ even if cong comes in 2024, they will not change certain things like, they wont reduce gst rates, they wont allow VPN which got banned this year, they will not change policies with regards to telecom bill etc.
Lol and congress whines about Adani 🤣
They wine about themselves, drink wine and forget, blame others; like money eating curds and rubbing on goat mouth
Remember Bajaj Chetak that had a defect because of which you had to tilt it in order for it to start? That succeeded in the Indian market for the same reason as well, Bajaj family was close to Government. They even managed to sell the same Chetak without fixing that flaw for couple of decades. In open market that product would have rotted in factories.
Even Maruti Suzuki manage to enter India, because the Nehru's Grandchild Sanjay Gandhi wanted to start a car company.
Even Royal Enfield remained as relevant in India while the original Enfield went bankrupt in UK when better alternatives became available.
Bajaj M50 was the two wheeler my husband had to book in advance and wait for 10 months.. 1979 year
People used to book and then sell the booking in black for money.. Same for 4 wheelers.. 😊.. I think today what stupid days of past haha
@@devyanilimaye8560 My father used to buy a new Chetak every year. I think there was a wait of 8-9 months. He used to book it, as soon as he took the delivery of his new scooter. And sell it for about the same price as soon as he got the allotment. I always asked him to buy a Splendor or LML Select for their better designs but never understood the power of resale value in those days.
Don't Politicise Everything ! ..
@@jagatgupta8432Saying the truth is now considered politicising 🤦
I still remember in 80s side mirrors were taxed as luxury items in cars and audio player were illegal to install in cars.
This information is quite interesting, can you share some sources where more such info can be found?
Woah really what the heck were the govt was thinking
@@rudrapratappoonia4093 License Raj under Congress Raj.
@@Kem____paalty16 Totally agreed.
@@rudrapratappoonia4093 brother India has always been behind in car and automotors....even today modifying you car illegal...limousine and many cars are illegal in india bcz of safety reasons.....after 50 years you might be saying the same thing for current regulations of automotors in india
Let me tell you an insider story when maruti 800 was first launched in India , HM bought 2 cars and tried to figure out the engine.
The entire R & D team of HM couldn't figure out then they were forced to tie up with Isuzu for their engines coz they were so overwhelmed with the modernity of Japanese engines. My family is involved with the automobile industry in Kolkata so thats how I know this story don't know if it's public or not
Maruti had tieup with Isuz for sometime to build more powerful engines. I had seen some Isuzu batched MS Zen so no surprise.
India never built its own engine, all are imported or taken after company acquisition - like M&M took Daewoo, Tataa took JLR. else so far zero domestic engines.
Dont be surprised with this bitter truth. We were always kaamchor.
Interesting. Is any car manufactured in Kolkata currently?
@@techcloud2510Your View though partly true but not entirely accurate. Mahindra had their own engines before acquiring Daewoo or sannyong which they did so get some premium segment tech , Tata engines from indica had problems but yeah they did transfer JLR engine tech to modern tata cars hence we can see the refinement in Nexon , Safari , Harrier. Maruti doesn't exist only their service network does with a small share it's all Suzuki ...but Suzuki tying up with ISUZU makes not sense.
It's not that the car companies r kamchor as u defined , the industry doesn't work like that most consumers have diff understanding of how stuff works in the car industry. Except for the chassis no car company builts anything inhouse that is also true for the rest of the world...the story is too long to comment here so I will leave at this ....Our companies are not kamchor it just doesn't make economic sense to build a new engine from scratch all the time ...
@@shashwatsinha2704 Nope after HM died nothing from the car industry is produced here and that goes for the component market as well. Most company plants are in Chennai coz the infrastructure for automobile market their is superb hence it's also called the Detroit of India , then there is maharastra nd Delhi,Punjab and Chandigarh as well .
@@souvikburman9797 ok thanks, sad to see the state of affairs here
It happened because of one family which thought India is their fathers property.
The R&D team used to take credit for adding a small lamp somewhere, to take credit for changing Mark-2 to Mark-3
There is one main reason for Japanese companies to dominate the world in automobile industry, which is, that the Japanese companies PAID their engineers to go on vacations to places like Detroit, Germany, Italy and see their cars being manufactured and also drive them. For some engineers they sponsored them to pursue Masters in those countries, which helped for a soft technology transfer through not making any deals. The entire world was against Japan and their companies after WW2, so they could not make any deals with other companies even if opened their market at that time.
The same evolutionary step was followed by China. They send their young brain overseas to gain knowledge and bring it back into the country to establish the Chinese economy. Indian government is at least a decade or two behind such policies so will see a growth slowly.
Nice information 👍
@@jssois007 70% fake information
Japan is big brain 🧠
Watched the history of world's first bullet train, the Shinkansen and how it started operation in 1964 on the channel Mustard. Japanese are something else.
Same happened with HAL
They destroyed Hal R&D
Hal made the first Supersonic Jet in Asia with the help of west Germany scientists
India was first in Asia to do (not china,Japan or anyone)
But our government didn't alloted fund for engine
Marut was made for 2 mark speed
But they provided fund for 0.7mark speed
And they bought Soviat junk mig 21
Even india could get uk engine after burning technology whivh was offered to india officialy but our beloved Netas sabotaged it by purchasing junk fighters.
We have been assembling soviet era machine guns, tanks, personnel carriers, rocket launchers , MiG-21, 23,25,27,29 and now Su-30Mkis etc. All these things were forced on India by Russia and Indian DPSUs and OFB who were getting good salaries and Overtime payments to assemble them in India.. This created leftist votebank who voted for Congress as these PSUs employed large workforce.. Russia still claims it saved India from US attack in 1971 Bangladesh war when US had brought it's aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the Bay of Bengal.. Right now Modi govt is gradually corporatising DPSUs to run them cost-effectively..
It must have been hard to resist Russian hookers and bribes for indian army officers and politicians.
MIG 21 is not a junk bro
@@melbinjoseph9462 yeah bro
They destroyed Hal Marut program and bought Soviat junk mig 21
Japan me Congress & Nehru nehi thi so wo successful ho gaye! 😅
Yes, if there was modi, would be zero with govt and full with modani.. 😂
Don't ever apologise for telling the Truth bro!!
Ur doing a great job!
Ha true , jo offend hua uski maa ki chut.
New generation pokemon telling truth, by reading some books. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@alberteinstein8330mulla 😂
@@alberteinstein8330kyun Birla Tera baap tha jo use defend kr rha hai😂😂
@@KattarRSSHindu your name proves your stupidity
Nehru's socialist policies wrecked India. He handicapped us for decades, while everybody else developed.
That's why capitalist modi is selling evrything . Mitron😂😂
@@kimjong-un1217 Modi is selling because socialist/communist scums made India beg infront of Imf, because of their socialist policy and imf forced those rotten brains to introduce LPG policy, P for privatisation.
@@kimjong-un1217 at the end of the day let’s check the results, only to realise that we are currently the fifth largest economy in the world and will become a 10 trillion-dollar economy in a few years😂😂 Modi hai toh mumkin hai!
@@BooO0oOoOoOooOoOoyah agree. But let's compare per capita income? 👀
How poor are becoming poor and ur uncle adani is getting rich
Lack of understanding has a limit. Socialist policies gave us a growth rate of 4-5 % yearly, it was the best policy for that era. It gave us green revolution, white revolution, took large percentage out of poverty. We would have been pakistan if we had gone capitalist route.
Every country was closed economy both capitalist and socialist of that time.
Neoliberalism or free flow of capital started on 1974-80s.
In india it began full fledged on 1992 LPG reforms.
1950’s Korea never had a car manufacturing plant - we were producing two cars
Now Korea has two great brands competing in the world
We need to hold massive protests against the current tax structure on cars , only then the government will understand
Protests are forgotten these days , Government suppresses those and media never covers , Dictator rule is running at present
Chennai has renault nissan Hayundai BMW. Delhi has maruti and honda. Mumbai has mahindra,scoda, merc , audi and VW. Rven recent developed Gujrat has MG and TATA, Karnataka has Volvo and Toyota. We in Kolkata have none except the false pride of being the cultural capital.
Remember Singur issue ? Momta ji 💩 ? Hw would any company establish in such a hostile environment?
Mamta Banerjee had insulted Respected Ratan Tata sir that's why he set up plant in gujarat.
Don't worry just keep electing mumma banarjee she is a sign of prosperous btw Kolkata is now replaced by Bengaluru or Hyderabad as the four megacity.
kick out momta begum from govt of west bengal, reject socialist & communist parties. then only kolkata will be developed.
Khela hobe😂
I am a small town boy born and never sat on a car, At 1995 I went to Calcutta (now kolkata) I was only 10 years old this was the first time i sat in the car and that was a Yellow taxi Ambassador. For me it was a once in a life moment. Sitting on a car felt like a king sitting on the throne. I'll never forget that experience. You didn't hurt my feelings your video was very well made the details, its history and its timeline, your humbleness thank you for bringing out the details. Great job
U have a very nice name
Ambassador will remain the king of Kolkata till I die.
Which town you from?
@@sauron2000000 bhai ye aj ki govt ke talwe chatt CZcamsr hai.. Jinko pahle ke zamane ka zero Experience hai.. In ko lagta hai desh 2014 me azad hua hai.. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@alberteinstein8330 😂😂😂😂 Wah ! Ye comment tum loogon se bahut sunte arahe hein 8 sal se . Kuch naya try kar .
Even today there is no homegrown household Indian brand available worldwide.
I thought my younger brother is a freeloader!! Today I’m feeling proud of him as he could’ve been a HM R&D engineer if had he born in early 50s!!
For you your younger brother is a freeloader, for me he is an investment asset. Learn man management, he will do wonders.
@@SM-ih3go mazak tha bhai, bechara padhai krr raha hai!!
😂😂 arey
@@onkarkadam4931 vo bhi majak hr kr rha h bhai. Asset bol rha h bhai kol.
Because of this car
We didn't have any used vintage cars now😔
Why? There are lot of vintage cars in India vintage cars Ambassador SE Pehele hi hai.
@@vivekanandpattar1607 those are imported bro . Not sold
@@sumergill1351 Before Hindustan Motors, there no one Manufacturer of Cars In India. HM was only the first manufacturer of Cars in India. By B M Birla,1942.
You could have touched upon Standard Motors of Chennai, their flagship Std 2000 was unmatched in performance and demand. I was told the govt under compulsion made that company face untold hurdles and die an indecent death ( may be because of Ambassodor)
Woh Standard bhi British-Leyland ki hai. The cars failed, due to bad roads and weak financial position of India.
@@vivekanandpattar1607
Standard 2000 did not fail. It was killed by TN based Minister who was adequately taken care of his Corporate boss. The Car was a great success. The manufacturer was a Iyengar -Brahmin and the TN based minister had used all his powers to close the company, adequately aided by local DMK mafia led. The murder of the company was deeply rooted in caste cum commercial / corrupt political basis.
Rover 2000 was discarded, and left over bodies were imported in knocked down condition. A small low rated power plant was fixed inside a huge space. Everyone who bought that monaster regretted soon.
ppl who say privatisation desh bechna today r the same loser employees who had ruined govt sector
Well said
70 years of becoming lazy and non-productive under stupid socialist policies usually leads to such "desh bech raha hai" comments from those people. These same people will look with awe at infrastructure in foreign countries built with "desh bech raha" companies in those countries and complain why don't we have those in India, but will cry about privatization in India when those same infrastructure are being developed in India.
@@ArghyadeepPal & irony is same ppl supports manmohan singh & rajiv gandhi for privatisation & liberalisation of economy no doubt y gujrat & south indian states r in much better position in terms of economy & buisness environment as compared to bihar bengal etc
Definitely Indian automotive industry could have been at very different heights if govt. hadn't put restrictions on other car companies.
Greatly informative and interesting video 🔥
Thank nehru 🤣🤣
Problem wasn't putting restrictions, problem was putting restrictions for personal gains, filling their own pockets unlike Japan who actually took the initiative and time to develop it's automotive industry and actually developed it. If India did that we would've been so much further than what we are now
@@Kem____paalty16 yes
And corruption. Still continuing!!!
@@bhagdikibhosbhag934 you're asking for the impossible here
This video is an classic example of “becoming wise“ after the events are over !
Yes, what you said is perfectly fine. Ambassador was the only leading car in a row of 3 cars Herald and PAL. Ambassador occupied the lion's share of the market by monopoly with the help of politicians. You had to book an Ambassador car by paying advance I don't remember now how much. May be 1000 or 5000 Rs. No interest. You will get the car after 3 to 5 years. Influential people got faster. The Mark 1 to 4 were just minor changes like mirror, seat, etc. Shameful. We saw a real car when Indira Gandhi ordered a small car factory for her younger son uneducated unemployed Sanjay. In collaboration with Suzuki, a minor motor manufacturer then. I think it was one of the smallest cars Suzuki 800, very cheap. There was still cheaper one Isuzu. Very few purchased it. I am telling the situation outside India. For Indian executives who were pampered with Premier Padmini, an oldie car from PAL, Suzuki was a dream. Very few opted for Herald. Ambassador felt the heat after the eighties. They made Hindustan Contessa. I think Ambassador engine with a bigger better body. Unfortunately it was a mismatch and failure. Soon Rajiv Gandhi opened up foreign collaboration. Ambassador slowly lost its ground. Natural death. Well deserved. Exploitied Indians of 2 generations. Same design. Poor looks. Poor service.
My father bought his first Fiat 1100 Delight back in 1969. After using it for a long 14years and 2.5 laks kilometres, we upgraded to a bigger car THE AMBASSADOR Mark IV in 1983. I remember my father showing me the owner's manual which said ' We manufacture cars with or without sleeves '. Which means even the new engines needed boring and sleeves inserted to get proper compression. Sad state of affairs
Perfectly legit to manufacturer car engine without sleeves. Tho nearly all modern day engines are wet sleeved.
Engine without sleeves last longer.
Ambassadors Diesel engines and petrol engines don't gave problems to us. We have owned At least 8-10 Ambassadors from 1983-2010.
@@vivekanandpattar1607 real VP. that's your take on the shitcrap ambassador.
@@swamivardana9911 If you don't like AMBY chhodo. Like Maruti- Tin ka dabba. We are used AMBASSADOR for 1983-2010. There are no engine problems. And very cheap to maintain. The bullisht crap is you people. Run BMW in Indian Rural ROADS.
@@vivekanandpattar1607 I run a second hand nano. Twice the milage of Amby. Same power.
Quite informative and a good point of view. Btw fun fact, govt used to have a PSU that made bread called Modern Foods which was privatised in 2003.
Basically, Ambassador was a vintage car which was forced upon us Indians even in the 1980s and 1990s.
Imagine how much job opportunities indians were denied because of Nehru ji and his staunch socialist policies.
Once india started liberalize both Birla and Bajaj went to Delhi and cried in front of Rajiv Gandhi not to do so. They reminded they were patriotic and step is against india! They reminded how they supported M. Gandhi. Not only Govt was at fault Indias industrial houses were very happy with socialism!
It was corporatism, that the industry was happy with.
If the government had taken one more step towards socialism (such as nationalising those companies) they would have been the first to leave the country with all their wealth (just like how companies had left West Bengal). Their patriotism is nothing but a lie.
Ambassador was the king of Indian roads... A king with no queen, minister or subjects... 😂
Indians are bred in such a way that they are always afraid of competition. But they need to believe that they are capable of becoming the leaders of competition. I hope someday Tata Mahindra and other Indian companies will rule the world if corruption remains low.
Padmini is queen
exactly aaj bhi protectionist policies chal rhi h aur license raaj bhi vapas aata jaa raha h
Lack of upskilling and finding solutions through teamwork is the cause of uncompetitive actions worldwide more like. The modern world upskilled their "uneducated" citizens via evening adult courses since the 1970s. Most of India was stuck in just blaming innocent citizens until around early 2000.
I would love to see a movie or documentary on " License Raj "
Story of Nehru family is the story of licence raj. Had Mr Narasimha Rao not become the PM of the country, India would have been not much different from Pakistan or Sri Lanka.
Nehru family is a curse to the nation 😚
Again a fake movie
Tell that to the Canadian actor Akshay kumar
@@lg7631 🤦🤡
@@AKumar-in5wi as fake as gandhi being good
The r&d of Hindustan motors were just scratching their nuts for all those years while the general public bought ambassadors.
They think that there design is perfect and there is not need to change
I remeber a statement of President of Hindustan Motors in news papers when market price of ambassador was Rs.66,000. He stated that the government of india wanted himdustan motors to reduce the price of ambassador car. He further stated that production cost of the car was Rs.22,000 and the rest constituted taxes. Cars of comparable specifications available in international market were costing more than the cost of ambassador car. Another car manufactured in india was fiat. Ambassador was dominant in Calcutta and fait was dominant in bombay market. Ambassador tried to enter into bombay market by sending its product by air as calcutta and bombay were not adequatly connected by road. This exercise of hindustan motors failed miserably as logistic cost was very high. Another car manufactured in india was Standard 10. But this car was not successful. That was period when european manufacturers knew that their obsolete automobile manufacturing machinery will be consumed in Indian market. That is how we got Vespa and Lambretta scooters in india.
India was literally USSR colony till 1990. As soon as USSR (socialism) collapsed, we also got bankrupt. Then came the American (capitalism) owned IMF to bail us out. But but but they came with strict conditions like adopting capitalism and making economic and foreign policies as per their conditions. So it was not Manmohan Singh who liberalised Indian economy but India was forced by IMF to do so. Any nation which takes loan from IMF literally looses it's sovereignty to USA. Latest example is Pakistan. It's only post 2014 we actually started becoming sovereign nation.
Actually 2019
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Excellent comment.
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@@nischaymiglani2617 India was not USSR colony rather it helped India a lot. There is a diff between the two.
India has lost its potential for economic development due to this corruption of Nehru Gandhi family party congress and (hindi chino bhai bhai) due to this we have lost Aksai chin UN permanent seat PAKISTAN BANGLADESH many of Hindu that we killed due to indo pak devision and we have lost the growths that china has taken in 1960-90s
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China started growing in the 90s before than India and China has almost the same gdp but I do agree corrupt government from the 50s and it's socialist policies destroyed the industrial potential of India
Ye congress wale purne papi h
Chup andhbhakt lindu.
@@ak06041 Corruption is not even required to slow down, those 80 license requirements to start car manufacuring was more than enough to discourage.
Boss, your observations are so correct. Good discussion. Sad part is that government bureaucratic corruption and short sighted policies are still crippling Indian industry. The rules and policies are outdated, not relevant and cannot compete in the international arena. Taxation of automotive industry is completely unreasonable. Indian citizens are not able to enjoy the output of Indian industry, let alone international. Our tax structure limits potential for growth and limits aspirations...because of corruption and incompetent government servants. So sad.
the virus of leftism is still active in india... even modi has not been able to fully defeat these institutions.
Corruption is far higher today and the media is bought lock and stock by Ambani and adani. In those days media was still independent and would ask difficult questions from the politicans. Today media is only cheerleader for bjp.
@@msbatra3868Yes, I can see that every indian road is occupied with only a single model of ambassdor(probably corruption of bjp). Also we have lost so many opportunities of forming aviation industries with multinational gaints just like in 60s because Air india dominates the aviation industry as it is a family heirloom ,of course bjp's. We can see scam busts reports like 2G scam, coal scam, chopper scam etc. just like back in 2000s. And dont forget delaying economy liberalization which could have boosted the Indian evonomy growth 100 folds as it was bjp govt.
@@msbatra3868 Even lee kuan yew, the revolutionary leader, himself said that India lost many opportunities to achieve the great potential, probably due to bjp's rule. I completely agree with you my friend. What is your name my friend?
@@MentorjiIn in those India was weak and having to deal with a very powerful pakistan, China and usa. So a socialist economy that focused on creating strategic industries and war weapons was needed. Only after India created its nuclear weapons and large scale support from ussr in the 60s and 70s did India become strong enough to scare Pakistan and restrain China.with that India could move to liberalisation of economy as socialist systems are efficient at heavy machinery, military and industry but lack very much in other sectors like service economy, semiconductors and innovation. But yes the heavy industrial and military backbone created by socialism in india enabled India to smash Pakistan and weaken and created the soil on which liberalization, it industry and innovation prospered. Were it not for socialism, India would have been conquered by radical Islam(ghazwa e hind) and your sisters and large numbers of hindu women would have been traded in the Islamic slave markets of pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. The reason why modi is able to act so boldly is that huge military industrial backbone that was created in 1960s to 1990s by congress. As coal scams, 2g there is enough nepotism of bjp like electoral bond scam, anti democratic farmer Bill created by bjp for adani and Ambani, the crony capitalist control of the press, evm vote rigging. Like how American prosecutors are accusing adani of mass bribery and tax evasion?like how adani and Ambani use law as their puppet. I will agree that congress is a corrupt and useless party but bjp is trying to crush all opposition with the Ed, evm rigging, Mafia like behavior. We have seen it in the case of how they destroyed the Aap party which was made of educated people
Sir, thanks for bringing this story to the notice of those who grew up after post 91.👏👏👏
That's impressive, being a petrohead and fan of ambassador cars it hurts to digest the facts you showed but totally changed the perspective to look at policies implemented by governments. Appreciate your time and effort for such kind of informative videos bhai. The subscribers count is low when compared to content you bring up in your videos. Hope your channel reaches many.
Miles to go!!!!!
Mahindra is the only indian brand that can compete to other well established companies in some limited aspects.
TATA , RE , TVS , Bajaj , Eicher too
@@c.bulakh6231 you should shut up first. Tata outsources chassis from Land Rover, engine from Fiat and gearbox from Hyundai in the Safari. Most parts used in their cars are Chinese. Mahindra also has a research facility in Detroit, design studio in UK as well. Just being present in all segments doesn't guarantee quality. Tata cars are unreliable, bad after-sales service, bad spare part availability. Mahindra is slowly but surely improving in terms of quality.
@@c.bulakh6231 bol toh aisa raha jaisa Tata k owner tu hai
@@c.bulakh6231 and who said u Mahindra doesn't have it
@@c.bulakh6231 still Tata's own cars are nowhere ss good as Mahindra's
You are 100% correct. The major chunk of Licence Raj is still present in India even today and politically lobbied monopoly still exist. The socialist elements are deeply engraved in our bureaucracy system...something that no company or organisation or individual can supersede.
Socialism is not what you have mentioned in your comment.
There were strong rumours in those days that.the Birlas had bribed L.K.Jha an advisor to the government to give a report in favour of Birlas to manufacture the car. He was then made Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
As someone who was born in 1961 and who grew up with the Ambassador, I can vouch that every word said in this video is true ...
You did such deep research on it and made unbiased and unfiltered video about how corruption became a big obstacle for automobile Industry's growth. It's been an honour working on your projects like these.
This channel is most definitely the smartest auto-info channel in India that I've ever seen.
Nicely thought out, researched and presented. Totally worth the effort. It was a treat to watch.
Very good👍 We should b aware of these disastrous decisions bcoz of which the general public had to suffer!
A reliable channel to hear news, current affairs nd history related to automobiles
We had ambassador in late 1996, it had petrol engine which we ditched and installed then Matador ( force motors) diesel engine.
Ys matador engine in an ambassador, just like a slow moving jcb it felt like that.what a horror it was
This, was much needed 👍 Thanks for this friend 👍
Great video. Perhaps, you may consider making a video on 'Standard' company who used to manufacture some cars such as Herald and Gazel. Also in the 80's (most probably) another car was introduced by the name of 'Montana', which could not capture the market perhaps because of predominant fiber parts in the body. Maybe some video on that as well.
If you ever feel useless
Then remember HM had an r and d team
Work ethics in Japan and India were diametrically opposite in nature. It holds true even today ...
Lol ever seen Japan's work culture???? Nothing less than a labour camp till this day they love it
yep
@@indranildutta5838 that's why west bengal become waste bengal. Due to this mentality. Mock other who works sincerely
Bilkul sahi analysis, this was the reason, that automobile industry was sluggish in India. Its a honor to subscribe to your channel mate.
You are right about the ending part your told
Our government officials are not even willing to get a change in this industry
They are banning modifications
You can't use old cars those were real classic
Not supporting motor sports
They just think that car is a item for going from one place to another
I hate that too
People who want to follow there dreams of NASCAR and le mans have to go abroad
Coz in this country you if you are a car guy
Than you are not supposed to be alive and government will not even support you
Nope they don't want modification but lets u buy any new car especially electri c car
@@indranildutta5838 Who wants a new electric car? They are not fun to drive. Only bought by normies
I was born in 1955 and in my younger days the cars I used were Ambassador, Fiat / Premier, Standard Herald and the Willys / Mahindra jeeps. In bikes I rode the Bullet, Jawa / Yezdi and Rajdoot. Also the Vespa and Lambretta scooters. Basically most of the vehicles were petrol guzzlers, except Mahindra, and unreliable. It's only after Maruti and Hyundai etc. that the market opened up to international brands. Todays youth have hundreds of models to choose from. India wasted four decades before developing the auto industry. That too in a market with a rapidly growing population. I agree with the presentation. The licence Raj created a mindset of mediocrity which continues even today. Very few indigenous brands can compete in quality with developed countries.
Just to add to what I wrote earlier. My comments are not political but I notice lots of Congress baiters and Modi supporters around spreading a false narrative. Modi's contribution to the automobile industry is ZERO. Remember it was Rajiv Gandhi who created Maruti Udyog and many other firsts like color TV, multiple channels and the IT revolution. I feel ashamed of the parents of today's young generation talking nonsense here and blaming poor Nehru. He had no time for cars and bikes. He was more involved in the food security challenges and other macro problems of a young nation. Ask your grandfather or father about Nehru and grow up.
Yes, your both comments are 100 % true.
sanjay PUNE
Rightly said, policy makers still think like Kings, car is a luxury item and anyone trying to own it must be heavily penalised-taxed.😠 कौन बोलता है के अंग्रेज चले गये ??
Its shocking to witness the way Indians have forgotten the days when there were queues outside ration shops and cars were available by lottery.
Things changed only in last 20 or so years.
But the way some folks behave is so shocking
Swatantra Party was India's only Libertarian party till now.
They were electrolarly unsuccessful, and party was dissolved.
This is time now for Libertarian reboot.
Your videos are some of the best. I love it. You need to start a separate "Auto History" channel or a magazine like "autocar".
I sometimes wonder that how some people fantasize about this car for almost no reason. This car was always a below quality product and unable to stand against the competion in every decade.
Thank you so much for your candid observations. Competition motivates Innovation, while monopoly breeds complacency. Apart from Monopoly and Govt. policies, I feel there are many other factors like no incentive or promotion for improvement, lack of highly skilled engineers who could make changes, shortage of capital for modernization. etc.
Even today it's an irony that Petrol with additives (HP Power, IOCL XPlus etc.) is treated as luxury product and higher taxes are levied on it. The truth is, by adding additives in Petrol, there is less pollution, less were and tear of the engine and better milage, resulting in direct benefit for the country. But instead of promoting, successive govts are trying to extract more tax from the user and indirectly discouraging use of a superior product.
Fact you nailed it
Our government is only interested in squeezing off money from our pockets. Look how much insensible the system is to hinder an enthusiast from doing any modifications on cars. They just want to channelize the stock trades of bigger corporations.
*previous government
@@KattarRSSHindu 🤣🤣🤣 knowledge
@@KattarRSSHindu current too*
@@akshit2094 bro chand pe aloo when
For the past 40 years, I have been telling or asking my friends why Ambassador car is not changing the design , now I got an answer.Thanks.
Awesome information. Kudos to Biturbo media team for such an informative video.
Some people criticise CZcams content creators of creating videos on government policies and how it's not related to private business development. Those people should see this eye opener.
In those days with only three cars, (Ambassador , Fia and Standard,,) Ambassador was the best car .It gave the best comfort and legroom and space for luggage.
I, who live pretty much the factory where ambassadors were produced, can confirm that it looks like a abandoned Soviet era ghost town 💀
You could also make similar documentary on monopoly by bajaj scooters. I recollect waiting periods of decades
It's quite ironic that royal Enfield bullet is still able to sell but this ambassador is gone
AMBASSADOR Gaya nahin, Aanewala hai. Peugeot ki taraf SE. 2024 Mein. Red and quality mein Ambassador Jaise gadi hi Nahin.
@rebaf bruh don't talk shit u know nothing about governance its not about north or south its about governance
You are doing a wonderful job. The content is so well-researched. I understand the effort made, keep up the good work bro
Fantastic video man! I personally love the Ambassador too and grew up with the car myself (no I am not that old, the car has just been in my family that long). Although what you have covered in the video might seem controversial and hardcore Amby lovers might take some offense to it but its necessary for us to understand the underpinnings of our history. We as automotive enthusiasts "love" our cars (sometimes too much) to not be able to see them for what they are and have always been: transportation technology. So even though I love my Amby I must admit that the car was never as good as it could have been, especially in the later stages of its life. Sadly, due to the reasons you touched upon and probably many more, we no longer have HM or the Amby around anymore...
Always Narrow minded government ruins businesses growth. Keep governments out of business and see how high they climb
Nehru and Indira didn't liked development of India even when they were the rulers, but even in his small tenure, Rajiv Gandhi tried something to do. He brought in the Japanese companies to collaborate with Indian companies and manufacture goods. Though he wasn't so intelligent as his mother and did some mistakes, but in his heart he loved India.
Ghanta!
His was also big time Chu*.
You are 100% Right.... Appreciated you from Kerala.
We generally believes that Corruption is in Government departments only.....but private sector is highly Corrupted .
Yes when nexus between the 2 is promoted and accepted by citizens with policies that benefit the 2, while rest suffer!
One had to spend another Rs 20000 about 20% of the purchase price to sort out issues neglected by the production and inspections.
Thanks for setting the record straight and we should not be guided by nostalgia, but facts.
Japanese are diligent and intelligent people, you can't compare the two
I never got the hype of Ambassador. Other t han having solid metal chassis, the car had nothing to write home about. Specially in the early 2000 onward. Design, safet, technology felt too ancient.
Very well researched article! Keep it up! In my personal opinion, India's overall growth was also halted because of a slow-moving car like ambassador.
when there is NEXUS of biz owners and politicians, the nation and its inhabitants suffer!
That's how Indian govt worked pushing our country atleast 30-40 years back. See how ahead China is from India even after almost similar workforce. INC should never be allowed to return specially under leadership of same Gandhy family.
Superb... Great informative videos... Love ur work... 👍
You are always the best in your work. Your research gives new information to us in this industry.
Not just Ambassador, HMT tractor, Rajdoot bike shared similar destiny. Ok i can understand that government closed policy did not motivate R&D, but what about companies and people? Even today we have to beg for patents from international companies.
Thank you for such a great insight on the history.
I am a proud owner of ambassador and still drive my 2012 grand everyday.
I am from Kolkata. I really feel bad for the dirty politics that ck birla group did to promote Ambassador instead of modifying the car.
Finally they discontinued the plant & trying to sell off the factory land to real estate group (Usha Shriram). This is the reason why I Boycott Ck birla products such as nbc, orient electric....
Anyway... My favourite cars are Maruti 800 SS80, SB308 & HM Ambassador specially BS4 (Encore 2013 model)... ✌🏻👍🏻
Communism me yahi hota hai isliye Aaj Russians Indians ko apne se bahut developed mante hai.... Thanks to privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation.....
Well said brother
We are not materialistic we want car to transport us from point A to B with good cabin space and strong suspension for harsher road conditions with low maintenance and easy to fix and there you have it the ambassador the AK 47 of Indian car build by ☭
@@No-ec4wvfor you i can laugh only....🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@worldisone1975 why Can you explain me ?
@@No-ec4wv I can't Because there is a saying that you can make people fool very easily but giving them wisdom is hard.
One correction, Hindustan motors had Contessa and fiat had NE118. These both cars were considered as luxury cars.
Very true. Government officers had to buy only Ambassador.
The waiting time for FIAT and its price made people turn towards Ambassador. The sad tale of Standard Motors is well-known.
Nice info. You could have also included how union strikes in Hind Motor factory forced it to shut down. How Hindustan Motors tried diversifying with Contessa and JV with Mitsubishi
Thank u for the vdo, it is well researched and well made on HM, however u should hve connected the reality of Maruti Suzuki also as to who owned it and bought it to Indian Auto Market.
I do not think there is anything to be emotional about Ambassador car. In the 80S, it was a reflection of India, lazy, complacent and too much of false pride just like that car. It still runs on Kolkata roads and you know how Kolkata is in terms of modern industrialization - zilch even today. Maruti changed our mindset and then of course, P V Narasimha Rao by opening up the economy in 1991.
Economy was opened up because of the condition from IMF
Not because of our socialist ministers
According to their ideology, it is "desh ko bechna"
still shocked why this channel does not have 1 million subscribers
Excellent article. The take away here is not that the Ambassador was a bad car or that the HF-24 was superior to MiG -21, it is that if the government does not allow innovation, it stifles design, engineering and advancement. HM had no need for design, they were a manufacturing house that had a captive market. Similarly, HAL became a purely manufacturing house because the HF-24 design team was disbanded after their highly successful design (interesting way to reward performance). Also, a government has to be extremely naïve to trust their erstwhile colonial masters to give them a cutting edge jet engine to power a fighter designed by a German that could be a rival to the British Electric Lightning with two RR Avon engines. Expected outcomes occurred.
My family had 3 generations of HM Ambassador from mark 2 to Grand and now we are using Maruti Suzuki Dzire and I can definitely say that both are poles apart. Once you ride a Dzire from an Ambassador you can immediately feel that Amby is of stone age. Even my father before buying Dzire did not want to believe that there is any better car than Ambassador. That's the monopoly they created.
Aaj bhi heavy taxes ke wajah se kaafi achi car companies India chor ke jaa rahi aur in the end consumer ko hee nuksaan ho raha hai
Because without heavy import duty and protectism our nikkamma companies can't compete with global companies.
Then how mahindra tvs hero bajaj is doing so well in europe and australia ? Royal enfield also @@overlordborn6131