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    The Necessity Files: Citroën 2CV

    In this series, I have taken you to Japan, Italy, and India, through the period following the Second World War, and examined how the...

    The Necessity Files: Hindustan Ambassador and Premier Padmini

    India achieved independence from the British in 1947, two years after the Second World War ended. Unlike Japan and Italy, India wasn’t destroyed by...

    Renault’s Post WWII Footprint

    Recently, we wrote about Fiat’s influence on the automotive industry of the Eastern Bloc. Italy’s proximity to the Eastern Bloc, the influence of its...

    Fiat: Influence on the Eastern Bloc

    Post World War II, Europe was divided into two parts. Countries directly under the Soviet Rule or influence formed the Eastern Bloc, governed by...

    Dacia, the Romanian Renault

    Dacia Timeline from the 1100 to the Duster. Image AI Generated As I have been researching Cold War-era cars from Eastern Europe, an interesting view...

    How TATA beat global giants with Indigenous LCVs

    In the mid-80s, apart from Suzuki, some other Japanese brands, perhaps better known globally than Suzuki, also entered India. As was required at that...

    Maruti 800 – The car that catalyzed the Indian economy

    Image Credit: Wikipedia By Swiftshashi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 I am making a bold claim in this article. Giving credit to one car, a...

    Zastava

    The post World War II trajectory of Europe looked very different for countries on either side of the Iron Curtain. For over forty years,...

    SKODA 1000MB

    Skoda 1000MB. The car that put Skoda on the world automotive map and set the stage for many generations of Skodas subsequently.

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