It is reported that the production of ‘Ambassador’ car which dominated the Indian Roads for decades may be stopped shortly. The Hindustan Motors, which produces the Ambassador, has stated that due to sales going down for years, resulting in reduced production which has reached an all time level of 6,000 for some years, its production will be stopped.

It was the car used by the govt. departments and officers. In Kolkata and W.Bengal, where the Birla’s factory is situated producing Ambassador, almost all of the taxis are Ambassadors. All this is going to change. In a few years Ambassador is going to be part of history.

It is one sector, where more modern and new products are continuously arriving. Despite the fact that India companies are there producing good cars, now the trend is to own costly foreign cars. After Ambassador, by 1980s, small car Maruti has become the favourite. That situation is also changing. Now the upper and even middle class favour bigger cars and that too foreign. VolksWagen, Skoda, Ferrari, Mercedes Benz and similar costly cars are taking over.

While lakhs and lakhs of cars are purchased in each city and town, there is a huge deficit for Public Transports which are used by the common people. The services are being reduced and the charges are being increased. However, increasing the public transport and reducing individual vehicles are the only change to reduce the acute congestion in the city roads.