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While the penumbral financial backers of my DUI Telepresence Crown Victoria Figure Eight Racing series shovel rubles into briefcases, I'm moving on to an even bigger Greatest Racing Series Ever™: Last-man-standing road racing of the three great automotive Ambassadors! More »
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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! After yesterday's QOTD, it just makes sense to go shopping for project cars with cool names! More »
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The Morris Oxford/Hindustan Ambassador has been in production for 56 years, which means it has 9 more to go in order to beat the Beetle. How do you market such a classic? More »
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AMC may be long gone, and Fiat owns the Jeep brand nowadays, but classic AMC ads will never die! More »
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We're mighty pleased with the vast quantities of DOTS Bonus shots from our readers these days, and some readers are going the extra mile and shooting multiple cars found street-parked in their towns. We saw Warpig's Oslo-O-Rama last week, and now it's NiceNurseRatched's turn. NiceNurseRatched lives in Tampa and she's photographed a bunch of Florida-style cool machinery, ranging from a Nash Ambassador to a Mercedes-Benz 600. Make the jump for the full 146 50-shot gallery. More »
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Just in case we haven't already made it perfectly clear, we love station wagons here at the Jalop. We also love AMCs, so it made my day when I spotted this sharp '69 Ambassador wagon parked in Alameda's South Shore neighborhood. More »
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Let's face it, Indians take the whole driving deal to a level most of us never dream of. First of all, a lot of them manage to blingify a car based on the Morris Oxford and somehow pull it off without looking like idiots. And, of course, there's the whole share-the-road-with-oxcarts thing. Here's an informative article aimed at the foreigner who wishes to take the wheel on the subcontinent; it includes such handy bits of info as "Official speed limits are seldom posted or, indeed, obeyed" and "Buses habitually carry passengers on the roof rack." Hey, give us an Amby with a loud horn and some sequined Ganesha murals and we're ready to roll. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=260102&view=rss&microfeed=true Rich velour seats, air conditioning, and a longer wheelbase for that posh limousine ride! Nobody will be confusing this car with that other Ambassador, no sirree. Seems strange that the rear would be sagging so much from the load of two passengers (also odd to see a car ad in the post-Nader era in which the passengers don't even pretend to wear seat belts) but maybe that's all part of the posh thing. Most importantly, we wonder how many Ambassador buyers went for the available 390/4-speed option. Definitely not enough of them. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=256639&view=rss&microfeed=true We soft Americans talk pretty big about hoonage and crazy driving in general, but how about the folks in India who drive Hindustan Motors Ambassadors (which are basically mid-50s Morris Oxfords) every day on brain-rattling roads choked with swerving buses, wrong-way drivers, herds of cows, bicyclists, etc? How many of us would be willing to pass a semi uphill on a crowded road in a tin-can Morris clone with 40 horsepower on tap? These guys are, and they don't even blink an eye while doing it. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=253096&view=rss&microfeed=true So here we have a Peugeot ad for the Indian market, showing an ambitious young fella who, smitten by the overwhelming beauty of the Peugeot 206, smashes and bashes his Hindustan Motors Ambassador into a crude parody of the 206, then proceeds to wow the local babes with that incredible Peugeot-itude (I can only assume that this ad offended the living crap out of millions of Indians, who feel quite patriotic about their beloved Ambys; imagine how you'd feel if Hyundai came out with an ad showing some American savagely beating his Dodge Dart into a facsimile of a Sonata). This one gets the "Best Use Of An Elephant When Performing Automotive Bodywork" award for, hell, the entire decade. – Murilee Martin More »
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When you let your crew know you're rolling down the ave in your Ambassador, chances are they'll assume you mean the Kenosha-built variety driven by the Government Agents in Repo Man (and then they'll diss your crummy two-barrel 304 and roar off in their 390-powered Javelins, most likely, leaving behind nothing but the echoes of their cruel laughter and a gnawing sense of emptiness in your soul). But if your homeboys happen to number among the billion souls living in India, they'll know right off that you're talking about the mighty Hindustan Motors Ambassador and they'll give you the honor of first swig from the Kingfisher forty they're passing around. More »
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