Dhirubhai Ambani’s Birthday: This was Mukesh Ambani’s father’s favourite car who’s now owned by...

Today is Reliance Industries founder and its chairman's father Dhirubhai Ambani's birthday. Dhirubhai Ambai, who founded world's one of the largest companies, had a favourite car.    

That was Cadillac, the brand he loved. Dhirubhai Ambani owned a 1958 Cadillac sedan, which was left hand driven as it’s a US brand. In 1960, Cadillac cars were a rage which were manufactured by US company General Motors.   

The Cadillac story 

The sedan car had three vintage models: Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac CTS and Cadillac STS. General Motors has been making Cadillac cars since 1902 as the premier luxury brand. The brand never sold in India and so Dhirubhai Ambani imported the car for his use.  

According to reports, the 1958 model stopped being manufactured before which its last showroom price was Rs 45 lakh (ex-showroom). The car had a 3249 CC 4-cylinder engine which come with a 65 litre fuel tank.   Its mileage was 14 km/ltr on highway and 11km/ltr on urban roads.  The car was so expensive that it had a power steering.   

Who owns it now? 

Famous Malayali actor Mohanlal has Ambani’s Cadillac in his vintage car collection. Mohanlal's father-in-law, renowned film producer K Balaji, purchased the vehicle. Balaji first bought this Cadillac from Ambani, and he even used it in a number of his produced films. In one of the movies, the car was even used by the villain character. Mohanlal has well-maintained the vintage vehicle.  

 

 

 

 

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Cadillac is a luxury car design and manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors (GM), an American automaker. China, Canada, and the United States are its three main markets. There are 34 more markets in the world where Cadillac vehicles are sold. In the past, Cadillac vehicles dominated the luxury market in the United States. Cadillac is one of the world's original automakers.