JUST SHOOT 'EM! When will those Hindustan Motors babus ever learn?
First they sell a world war II contraption for 60 years, then upgrade it with an Isuzu engine while retaining the same lego build quality (Ambassador)...wake up, no one but the guys with red lights on their cars is going to pay fiat palio money for your antique! Next they design "inhouse" a utility vehicle that is so pathetic that even villagers from villages without electricity and water find it to be outdated! Finally Mitsubishi hands them the Lancer...they screw the build quality, de-tune the engine (1.5) and offer a slush box in the more powerful variant (1.8). Worse still, the pricing doesnt change over 6 years and they expect the Lancer to occupy a "dominating" position in the market. As if to cut the branch that they find themselves sitting on, HM goes ahead and prices the new 1.8 straight in Octavia and Optra territory.
HM has excess capacity at their plants, and deservedly so. Instead of asking Mitsubishi for better cars or thinking up modern products (beyond their scope), they offer that capacity to others
Havent they also been manufacturing the Ikon engine since long?
HM deserves to die...just like a certain Premier Automobiles Ltd. did
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