# High style ahead for cars from India? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 25, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051 "2015-12-25T18:13:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/1 "2015-12-25T18:13:51Z")
Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s largest SUV manufacturer has finalized a deal to purchase Italy’s famed automotive design house, Pininfarina. This is surely a first step toward trying to expand Mahindra’s market penetration in countries where excellent design is a priority with car buyers. > **[Mahindra Is The Official Owner Of Pininfarina @ Top Speed](https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/mahindra-is-the-official-owner-of-pininfarina-ar171990.html)** > > the mahindra group through its subsidiaries tech mahindra limited and mahindra amp mahindra has just finalized a deal to secure a controlling stake in (...) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/2 "2015-12-25T20:22:26Z")
Tata already owns Jaguar and Rover. Doesn’t that count as high style cars from India, even though manufacturing is in the Iindian colony of Great Britian? ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/3 "2015-12-25T20:26:09Z")
What? Their tractors aren’t stylish enough?? ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/4 "2015-12-25T20:52:29Z")
LOL, good one, jt. Although I’m fairly certain our British friends might not appreciate the humor. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/5 "2015-12-26T00:12:35Z")
No comment at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/6 "2015-12-26T00:48:31Z")
@jtsanders Yes, and Tata also owns a large steel mill in England. When that transaction took place the newspapers carried the headline: “The Empire Strikes Back”. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/7 "2015-12-26T01:35:00Z")
Too close to home, @“the same mountainbike” ? ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/8 "2015-12-26T03:41:47Z")
Gee, I’d hope anyone possesses a sense of irony, and has the maturity to laugh at a joke directed their way. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/9 "2015-12-26T23:26:52Z")
No, Jt, not at all. You are aware I hope that Ghandi led India to freedom from being a British colony? I assumed your comment on GB being a colony of India was a lighthearted comment on that history. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/10 "2015-12-27T03:43:43Z")
Yes, it was. When I said “too close to home”, I wasn’t implying that it was your home, but the original GB/India relationship you mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/11 "2015-12-27T03:49:47Z")
Tata had to buy Jag and Land Rover because they just couldn’t imagine using the advertising tag line… **_And NOW the NEW 2016 Tata’s!_** … in Britain. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/12 "2015-12-27T04:04:49Z")
**^** Were they…bodacious tatas? **;-))** ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/13 "2015-12-27T06:48:20Z")
OOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhh !!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/14 "2015-12-27T19:52:30Z")
Ironically those humble Indians will make the Land Rover and Jaguar MORE reliable because they can afford to. The Chinese will likely improve Volvos as well for the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/high-style-ahead-for-cars-from-india/92051/15 "2015-12-27T20:02:55Z")
Ford did a great job with Jag and LR to improve quality. Tata seems to be a pretty good steward of the brand given the nice products coming out the door. The bane of English cars, Lucas (AKA the Prince of Darkness) is now owned by the German company ZF so they actually know how to spell and create “quality” now.