The New Motown

Past what seems like unending lines of trucks stretching on both sides of the six-lane road waiting for Tata Nanos to crawl into their trailers, a chai wala points to the left and says, “Phod wahan hai.” Gopal Bharwad, 19, from Motipura village, is referring to the US car maker Ford Motor Company, one of the three manufacturers that are setting up base near the town of Sanand, 22 km from Gujarat’s commercial capital of Ahmedabad. Besides ‘Phod’, ‘Phor’ and ‘Four’, there is ‘Peejot’—French car-maker PSA Peugeot Citroen.

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