MUMBAI/NEW DELHI : Walk into the vehicle development centre of any major Indian carmaker and you’ll find dozens of rival cars stripped to their bones, engineers poring over every exposed circuit, nut and wire. Such ‘benchmarking’ helps companies understand why some models work while others don’t, track technology trends, and plan their own vehicle roadmaps. Increasingly, though, the cars being subject to the microscope are Chinese, not European, Japanese or American. Once distant curiosities, models like th ...