Mean Metal Motors was an Indian startup founded in 2014 by Sarthak Paul Chowdhury and based in Karnataka, initially in Manipal and later associated with Bengaluru. It set out to build an indigenous high-performance sports car and first became known for the M-Zero, a proposed hybrid supercar presented in 2015 as a lightweight, mid-engined flagship intended to claim “India’s first supercar” territory. The company’s public identity rested on ambitious engineering…