But it has not been an easy gestation.Last October Tata Motors, India's biggest indigenous vehicle-maker, abandoned the $292m factory that it had built in Singur, West Bengal, to make the Nano.
In China, Great Wall Aerospace builds the Long March vehicle, and, in the mid 1990s, Japan entered the field with its first indigenous launch vehicle, the H-II.
He held a series of prestigious posts, including project director for India's first indigenous satellite launch vehicle, and chief of the integrated guided missile development programme.
In 1969, Kalam was transferred to the Indian Space Research Organisation ISROO) where he was the project director of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully deployed the Rohini satellite in near earth's orbit in July 1980.
The provincial government announced plans in December to improve safety along Highway 16, including funds for traffic cameras and vehicles for indigenous communities.
But regardless of the origin of Guadalupe, modern academics such as Allen Yeh and Gabriela Olaguibel see her as a vehicle for indigenous people used to preserve their own culture amid persecution from the Spanish.
And Malaysia has launched its first indigenous hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, a golf buggy designed and produced by the Fuel Cell Institute at the National University of Malaysia (UKM).
Festival activity, which has always been a significant part of Pacific culture, has provided a vehicle for expressing contemporary indigenous identities.
Many Iranians inside Iran only need to watch satellite television broadcast out of Los Angeles to be reminded that their most viable vehicle for change remains indigenous.
Whilst over-represented, the majority of deceased due to single vehicle rollovers were not of Indigenous ethnicity (47%).
