The known automobile designer firm, DC Design has hinted that it is planning to set up a new car manufacturing plant in the western state of Gujarat.

Automobile designer Dilip Chhabria has indicated that the company is c planning got set up a customised car manufacturing unit near Ahmedabad. The company will redesign and modify cars for the mass market at the unit. The company might start manufacturing India's first indigenously developed sports car called, DC Avanti at the plant.

Mr. Chhabria said on Wednesday that, "A new assembly plant is being set up at Talegaon near Pune that will have a capacity to manufacture 2,500 Avantis a year. We expect demand for Avantis to increase in the coming years and chances are that the expansion might happen in Gujarat. We are seriously thinking of Gujarat as the next step for Avanti."

DC Avanti is expected to be launched in December and the company has said that it will release demonstration cars by October this year, according to Mr. Chhabria. He was speaking at an event for the inauguration of a DC Design showroom in Ahmedabad that will be open for public from 28 April, 2013.