Dilip Chhabria's College of Automotive Studies

Well, its finally open for admissions. It's called the DYP-DC CENTER For Automotive Research and Studies. and is a joint effort by the D.Y Patil Group and DC Design. A first in India, it will be offering Automobile-centric education programs in the field of Design Engineering and Management. More details on the college and their courses below.


Courses Offered:

The following are the courses that will be offered to start with:

Undergraduate Program in Automotive Styling
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility: XII'th in any discipline of Arts / Science / Commerce
Fees: 7 lakhs per year

Postgraduate Program in Automotive Styling
Duration: 2 years
Eligibility: Graduation in any discipline of Arts / Science / Commerce / Engineering
Fees: 7 lakhs per year

Applications for admissions will be accepted in January and July every year. All applicants will have to will have to go through a specially designed entrance test. The student's creative ability will be given importance apart from the test scores obtained in the exam if he has to qualify for admission. The Center will also offer scholarships to talented and needy students.

There will be project work too where the students will be able to build an actual car at the end of the course. The final year project is even more interesting where students will get a chance to work on building an actually prototype right from from the design stages to the full working model.


The Center will also help the freshly graduated students to get internships and look at employment opportunities at the end of their course.

Accommodation:

The Center will also provide accommodation facilities for those students who wish to stay on campus. Shared rooms with common bathrooms will be available. The campus is spread over a 100 acres. Facilities include a 300 seat auditorium, aesthetically designed studios and classrooms equipped with state-of-the art video projection systems.

DC Design Imperator and Ying Yang Design Concepts at New Delhi Auto Expo

DC Designs Imperator and Ying Yang - Click above for high-res image gallery

If you're not already familiar with DC Designs, let's refresh your memory. Founded by Dilip Chhabria, the Indian designer has been responsible for such autotrocities as the Amrierod and Cayenne Coupe, along with tuned versions of the Rolls-Royce Phantom and Tata Nano. Pleased with what he's done for other people's vehicles, Chhabria has turned his efforts towards developing two new vehicles, both of which debuted this week at the Auto Expo in New Delhi.



Without any hard details on what's underneath each concept, there's not much to say aside from analyzing the exterior designs. Despite its name, the Ying Yang struck us as a stylish amalgamation of the en vogue box aesthetic and a traditional minivan, while the Imperator is far too similar to the Lexus 2054 shown in the movie adaption of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report -- right down to the plummeting windows and red hue. Decidedly less swoopy than its silver screen inspiration, the four-seat Imperator (anyone remember the Isdera supercar by the same name?) is festooned with all the show car baubles you'd expect, including 24-inch wheels and gullwing doors, the latter of which are held up by massive hydraulic tubes that seemingly prove that opening the concept's doors was an afterthought.




You can check out both concepts in the gallery below thanks to Indianautosblog.com.