Dilip Chhabria is an India

India

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n automobile designer

Automotive design

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. He is the founder of DC Design

DC Design

DC Design is an Indian design firm from Mumbai which is noted for their concept cars and prototypes. The firm, founded in 1993, is headed by designer Dilip Chhabria, and under a contract with Ford Motor Company built the first Aston Martin AMV8 Vantage prototype featured at the 2003 Detroit Auto...

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He is qualified in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design

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, Pasadena, California

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, U.S.

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 and worked with General Motors

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 USA in their Design Centre. He also started his own auto accessory business and became one of the largest auto accessory manufacturers in India.

His company made the first prototype for the Aston Martin Vanquish which appeared in the James Bond

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 movie Die Another Day

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In 2006, Chhabria announced DCStar, tie-up between Eximstar (an ETA group company) and Dilip Chhabria Design Pvt Ltd.