The 90s was an era when the automotive scenario in India was going through an overhaul, a movement that started with the first gen Maruti 800 entering the market back in 1983. This era gave us some luxury cars which probably we will not regard as luxury in the present times because the growth in terms of development in the automotive sector has spoilt us. The 90s was an era when the automotive scenario in India was going through an overhaul, a movement that started with the first gen Maruti 800 entering the market back in 1983.
New international players were entering the Indian automotive market with offerings that were totally new to us, even though most of the offerings that they were bringing into the Indian market had been on offer abroad for quite some time. This era gave us some luxury cars which probably we will not regard as luxury in the present times because the growth in terms of development in the automotive sector has spoilt us. But at the time, our notion of luxury was totally different, and with cars like the Opel Astra, Daewoo Cielo and Hindustan Motors Contessa making their presence in the market, for the very first time most of us got a sense of luxury while we were driving or being chauffeured around.
Let us have a look at five such cars that were luxury for us in the 90s. 1. Daewoo Cielo: The Cielo was launched in India in the year 1995.
The sedan was big on space and was feature loaded to the brim, beyond the standards that we had set. This car was mainly.