Everyone’s getting in on the retrostyling game. For the 2008 Auto Expo in New Delhi, auto manufacturer Dilip Chhabria (DC) of India has whipped up a dashingly updated version of its country’s Hindustan Ambassador—basically, India’s version of the Checker. We think the slick "Ambierod" concept has the old Ambassador whipped in the looks department, but if this classy ride catches the way the Tata is going to, we predict that all the remaining oil will go away in a hurry. More at Edmunds.

Widely touted as the "world’s cheapest car," India’s Tata Nano will hit the market later this year with a sticker price of only 2500 bucks. This "people’s car" was revealed today at the New Delhi Auto Show amidst starry-eyed promises of unprecedented mobility for India’s 1.1 billion people—though Tata predictably downplayed the inconvenient truth of the similarly unprecedented capacity for oil consumption and pollution that the car will bring. With US gas prices jacked to well over $3 a gallon, it seems like not the best time to start sticking another billion-odd straws into the dwindling global petroleum milkshake. And as if India wasn’t dirty enough already, clogging their roads with even 50 mpg microcars seems bound to turn their smog-saturated cities into dead zones. Tata advises nervous environmentalists to quit fretting, because the car meets "all current Indian emissions standards." Hmm… reassuring? Read more on the Tata at yahoo.

Look anything like this scene in India? You gotta admit, they know how to keep traffic flowing. Via BoingBoing.