India has been making cars for as long as there have been combustion engines, but they’ve primarily been three-wheeled taxis and delivery trucks until now. An Indian company called DC Design began its life building retrofit kits to create facsimiles of luxury cars like the Porsche Cayenne and Hummer H1. But with the Avanti, they’ve got a project uniquely their own.
Unlike some of the ultra-exclusive limited production vehicles on this list, DC is starting production of the Avanti at 200 units per year with hopes of increasing that to 2,000 as sales increase. The first examples will leave DC’s showrooms with a Ford turbo four-cylinder making 265 hp., but plans are in place to offer a V6 from Honda, modified to produce a much more substantial 500 hp. It remains to be seen which performance cars it will be able to hang with in the real world, but it’s always encouraging to see innovation make the transition to execution.
