Yellow Taxi
Calcutta · 1962
Build the taxi that carried Calcutta for more than sixty years. The roof lifts off, the bonnet opens and the wheels roll.
Size, delivery & returns
Assembled size
About 17 × 8 × 9 cm
Size and build-time guidance are estimates pending final product checks.
Free shipping in India. Allow 5–7 days after dispatch.
Unopened boxes can be refunded. Opened boxes can be replaced if there’s a problem. Missing pieces are replaced free.
Returns and missing piecesGet in.
On the roof.
A tin trunk, a suitcase and a bedding roll. The train journey is over. The taxi ride begins.
On the dashboard.
A clay cup of tea beside the fare meter. A box of sweets on the back seat.
Under the bonnet.
Lift the bonnet to see the engine. Simple to mend, the Ambassador kept its drivers on the road for decades.
Last stop.
At Uttarpara in West Bengal, just outside Calcutta, Hindustan Motors built the Ambassador for fifty-seven years, from 1957 to 2014.
Production stopped in May 2014. The yellow Ambassadors still working in Kolkata are due off the road by the end of 2027.
Soon there will be none left to hail.
You can still build one.
For decades, the Prime Minister’s official car.
Size and space.
- Length
- About 17 cm
- Width
- About 8 cm
- Height with the luggage
- About 9 cm
About as long as your hand. It sits on a desk, a shelf or a windowsill.
A simplified brick model inspired by the yellow Ambassador taxis of Kolkata. It is not an exact scale replica and is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Hindustan Motors or the owners of the Ambassador name. The number plate is a tribute, not a real registration. The street scenes on this page are imagined; the model shown in them is the Taksh set.