Hindustan Ambassador was the first car to be commercially manufactured in India, and was based on the Morris Oxford Series III. But not India's first car.

The New Delhi company was one of the country's three original car manufactures and saw it lead the trade up until the mid 1980s when it was selling the Ambassador in a largely protected market.

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In 2014, when the Ambassador was discontinued, the company sold about 2,200 unites, a tiny share of the 1.8 million passenger cars sold during the year in India, according to Reuters.

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Most notably, the famous car holds the notable distinction of being India’s first independently designed car. Though the vehicle had everything to run on the road, it could not get success.