Brand Details
About Hindustan Motors
- Category
- Car
- Country
- India
- Region
- Asia
- Founded
- 1942
- Founder
- B.M. Birla
- Headquarters
- Kolkata, India
- Format
- Transparent PNG
Shown for identification. Hindustan Motors and its logo are trademarks of their respective owner.
Brand History
The Hindustan Motors Story
Hindustan Motors was founded in 1942 by industrialist B.M. Birla and became one of India's pioneering carmakers, building vehicles at its Uttarpara plant near Calcutta. Its defining product was the Ambassador, based on the Morris Oxford Series III, which entered production in the late 1950s and served for decades as India's archetypal government car and taxi. Production of the Ambassador continued with only gradual changes until 2014, when the plant suspended operations.
Current Lineup
Hindustan Motors no longer builds passenger cars; Ambassador production ended in 2014 and rights to the name were later sold to Peugeot.
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