Everybody loves a roadtrip. Those trips with your folks, your kids, your friends, your significant others and if you’re the trusting type, with a hitchhiker or two. You get to take the scenic route to your destination. Somebody will inevitably make a roadtrip mixed tape with songs you’ll either cherish as triggers of good memories or never, ever want to hear again. And then you’ll vow to never do something this crazy with this group of people again. Until the next time you do.

That’s, of course, if your trip includes driving to the likes of Mpumalanga or Mozambique. Mumbai? Forget about it. What did The Darjeeling Limited teach us? Aside from the sad fact that Adrien Brody can indeed make a bad film, and maybe the notion that it may be a good idea to not try and find your mother if she leaves you to join a nunnery, this film taught us that travel in India is a, er, different experience. BBC World News’ India On Four Wheels (on Top TV this weekend) completely disregards this – they want to see for themselves.

And see they do. Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt decide to take a road trip around India. The point? To explore the motor industry in that country and see how it helps or hinders the economic growth of the heavily populated place. The catch? They can’t travel together. they start at the same point in Dehli and have to go in opposite directions, meeting new people along the way and, over the course of three weeks, take the scenic route to Chennai where Rowlatt (in a beat up old Hindustan Ambassador) and Rani (in a brand spanking new 4x4) are to meet.

The idea is to draw parallels to a modern India and the old way of doing things. Use the auto industry as a way of seeing where India is a country and what lies ahead.

• India On Four Wheels is on BBC World News (Top TV Channel 400) on February 11 and 12 at 8.30pm.

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