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In this episode of That’s the Thing, Jimmy, Kavya, and Atharva slide into the wide, unyielding backseat of an Ambassador—the car that defined Indian power, politics, and pothole strategy for over five decades.
It was a diesel beast. A monocoque marvel. And a boot space that no hatchback today can touch.
Modelled after the British Morris Oxford, the Ambassador became the official ride for every babu, neta, and dignitary that mattered. By the 1960s, it wasn’t just on the road—it was the road.
Jawaharlal Nehru may have swapped it out for a Cadillac when foreign guests arrived, but Lal Bahadur Shastri made his preferences clear: “I want them to know that the Indian Prime Minister is traveling in a car made in India.”
It had fans beyond the government. R.K. Laxman, creator of The Common M ...
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