Hulas to upgrade Mustang facility for Prime Minister
BIRATNAGAR:
Hulas Motors — a Biratnagar-based vehicle company — is manufacturing a Mustang Max including power steering, air conditioner and others facilities especially for the Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
The jeep indigenously assembled in the country has been in limelight after Dr Bhattarai liked it as his vehicle after being elected as the top executive post of the country.
“Earlier, Hulas Motors had sent 13-seated Mustang to the Prime Minister in haste,” managing director of the company Surendra Golchha said. The vehicle was sent to the Prime Minister from Pokhara showroom after Rameshwor Sapkota, a tourism entrepreneur and a close aide to the premier made an urgent call to supply the jeep.
After the Prime Minister’s interest on the vehicle, the company has started manufacturing new jeep with updated deluxe facilities for him. The vehicle for the Prime Minister would have more comfortable seats, air-conditioning, power steering, central locking, power window and technology to lower the volume of the sound, he said, adding that the current Mustang used by Dr Bhattarai has not such facilities.
The company is not sure either the government will buy the current Mustang or not. Hulas Motors that began assembling the vehicle in the country in 1998 has sold 1,000 vehicles so far. The company that produces chasis, body, seats, bumper, and glass in Nepal assembles the vehicles by importing engine from China. Hulas Motors is producing different brands like Hulas Mini (V), Mustang V2, and Mustang. These vehicle brands are popular in the hilly areas of Baglung, Myagdi, and Mustang.
Mustang Max-diesel gives a mileage of 11 km per liter and priced from Rs 1.4 million to Rs 2 million, according to facilities added in the vehicle. The Mustang used by the Prime Minister costs Rs 2 million, where as the updated version will cost Rs 2.2 million.
Golchha said that he had heard that even Nepal police and Nepal army are mulling over buying the vehicles of his company to use in hilly areas. “It has boosted our morale,” he said, adding that the company is producing 40 to 50 units annually, though it has the capacity to manufacture 150 units.
“We can deliver our service according to demand,” Golchha pledged, adding that that the company was receiving floods of congratulations after the Prime Minister started using as his official vehicle.
“It is the happiest moment for the company and it has posed both challenges and opportunities for us,” Golchha said. “The price of Mustang could come down, if the government relaxed tax.”
Dr Bhattarai selected to use Mustang as his official vehicle despite security warnings, as according to his party line, he wants to encourage nationalist capitalists that is, according to the communist doctrine, necessary for revolution.
The communist doctrine stated that farmers, labourers and nationalist capitalist forces can help make the revolution successful.
At a glance
Hulas Motors is the leading and the only commercial vehicle manufacturer in Nepal manufacturing LCV as well as MUV. It was established in the year 1996 as a sister concern of Golchha Organisation, one of the biggest organisations in Nepal. The design of Sherpa, Mustang and Mini V all are indigenous.
Source: THT
Hulas Motors — a Biratnagar-based vehicle company — is manufacturing a Mustang Max including power steering, air conditioner and others facilities especially for the Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
The jeep indigenously assembled in the country has been in limelight after Dr Bhattarai liked it as his vehicle after being elected as the top executive post of the country.
“Earlier, Hulas Motors had sent 13-seated Mustang to the Prime Minister in haste,” managing director of the company Surendra Golchha said. The vehicle was sent to the Prime Minister from Pokhara showroom after Rameshwor Sapkota, a tourism entrepreneur and a close aide to the premier made an urgent call to supply the jeep.
After the Prime Minister’s interest on the vehicle, the company has started manufacturing new jeep with updated deluxe facilities for him. The vehicle for the Prime Minister would have more comfortable seats, air-conditioning, power steering, central locking, power window and technology to lower the volume of the sound, he said, adding that the current Mustang used by Dr Bhattarai has not such facilities.
The company is not sure either the government will buy the current Mustang or not. Hulas Motors that began assembling the vehicle in the country in 1998 has sold 1,000 vehicles so far. The company that produces chasis, body, seats, bumper, and glass in Nepal assembles the vehicles by importing engine from China. Hulas Motors is producing different brands like Hulas Mini (V), Mustang V2, and Mustang. These vehicle brands are popular in the hilly areas of Baglung, Myagdi, and Mustang.
Mustang Max-diesel gives a mileage of 11 km per liter and priced from Rs 1.4 million to Rs 2 million, according to facilities added in the vehicle. The Mustang used by the Prime Minister costs Rs 2 million, where as the updated version will cost Rs 2.2 million.
Golchha said that he had heard that even Nepal police and Nepal army are mulling over buying the vehicles of his company to use in hilly areas. “It has boosted our morale,” he said, adding that the company is producing 40 to 50 units annually, though it has the capacity to manufacture 150 units.
“We can deliver our service according to demand,” Golchha pledged, adding that that the company was receiving floods of congratulations after the Prime Minister started using as his official vehicle.
“It is the happiest moment for the company and it has posed both challenges and opportunities for us,” Golchha said. “The price of Mustang could come down, if the government relaxed tax.”
Dr Bhattarai selected to use Mustang as his official vehicle despite security warnings, as according to his party line, he wants to encourage nationalist capitalists that is, according to the communist doctrine, necessary for revolution.
The communist doctrine stated that farmers, labourers and nationalist capitalist forces can help make the revolution successful.
At a glance
Hulas Motors is the leading and the only commercial vehicle manufacturer in Nepal manufacturing LCV as well as MUV. It was established in the year 1996 as a sister concern of Golchha Organisation, one of the biggest organisations in Nepal. The design of Sherpa, Mustang and Mini V all are indigenous.
Source: THT
