Dilip Chhabria
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Dilip Chhabria is a leading automobile designer in India.
He qualified in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA and worked with General Motors USA in the Design Centre. He also started his own auto accessory business and became one of the largest auto accessory manufacture in the country.
Using design as a differentiator, Dilip Chhabria has made true the 'mantra', 'Good Design is Good Business,' by establishing a design based company in a country where intellect was not one paid for, valued or protected. A classic case of entrepreneurship has resulted in translating one man's dream and vision into a 300 strong people company.
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PROFILE
DILIP CHHABRIA 52, majored in Transportation Design from Art Center, Pasadena, and worked briefly for GM, Detroit. Realizing that it would be at least 25 years before he could be given the opportunity to design a wide new car and not wanting to continue working building GM’s brand equity, Dilip Chhabria took the courageous step of returning to India to incept DC Design in 1993.
The premise of DC Design was to battle with the Italian studios for design prototyping services. He soon realized that coupled with his talent, qualifications and leadership; there could be a unique situation of delivering First World attributes at Third World prices.
DC Design is today a 300 people organization having created more than 550 uniquely designed fully functional cars (a world record!), and encompasses a wide spectrum from city cars, to sports cars, to luxury coaches.
DC Design caters to corporate clients like Aston Martin, Renault, Nissan, Ford, Toyota, Fiat, Hyundai, Suzuki, GM etc.
DC Design also caters to a very exclusive clientele which include leading film, political and industrial big wigs and among the few milestone cars are the Mercedes W221, Stretch, Porsche Cayenne, Aston Martin AM V8 Vantage and Rolls Royce.
DC, the man is poised to grow many folds in years to come, while DC Design is today a one of its kind company in the developing world and has no competition even from countries like China.
Recently, an NRI from London sent a Rolls Royce to his workshop in Pune, India, and had DC, as he is fondly knowm, convert it into a sports car. On spotting the car on the streets of London, Rolls Royce received inquires on whether they had rolled out a sports model!
His clients include business tycoons from all over the world and Bollywood biggies like, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Dachchan, Sanjay Dutt... to name a few.
MOVING TOWARDS ART
Dilip Chhabria, who has been referred to by The Economic Times, India's leading business daily as 'One in a Billion' is making rapid strides. He has now set his sights on having his own exhibition of his paintings in London, sometime in June, 2007. Dilip aims to sell the 30 paintings he has targeted at around Rs 50 lakh each. "The painting I am doing is different from the other artists. In that aspect I have an edge. It's a new stream. It's not contemporary nor is it pure abstract. It leans on abstract. I'm trying to trail blaze a new stream in the world of art," he states confidently.
