It purely depends on your interest. When you are really passionate about bikes and cars, you'll go for it automatically. This branch is the good scope of engineering. But you have to think multiple times before getting into this field. Peoples are in a mentality like there's no scope for automobile engineering in India. If you study this, then there'll be no job. Your life will be spoiled... Really...??? People these days really believes whatever they hear. Yeah... My parents too not agreed when I said I'm taking Automobile engineering as my career. But if you are passionate, you won't change your track. After finishing 10th standard, my parents asked me to take Biology group. But I wish not to study biology group for name sake and getting into engineering. Here also the mentality of parents is like, Hey... Go for mechanical engineering. Then you can find any job in any field. It's simply not like that. Automobile engineering is completely different from mechanical. In mechanical you'll mainly focused in manufacturing side. In automobile engineering you'll be going through different power train components and working of it. So it's totally different game. Another misconception in Automobile industry is totally down due to this pandemic. We all know only the manufacturing and sales is decreased. But in this branch there are various fields not only manufacturing. Everyone is focusing only on manufacturing side. Only a few look after R&D's. My uncle really gave me a good example for the decline of the sales of automobiles in India. Imagine you are not eating morning and afternoon in a day. For sure you'll eat more than normal quantity for dinner. The same concept can be implemented here also. If the sales is going down, it's not like it is not going to be increased. So the automobile sector is really not going to be down. There are wide opportunities available out there. The only problem is to select the right field and right area of interest. You don't want to study automobile engineering for name sake and getting placed in an IT company. Let me share some of my experience. I know a guy who is really good at our core concepts and he is really very creative. We always talk about motorbike industry and we were in a idea of creating a custom built motorcycle. At lockdown he lost his track and started preparing coding and got placed in an IT company. I'm very much happy for him and not commenting anything about him. I'm trying to explicit the reason. The method of training given by the college is fully based upon IT field. If the same training were given in our core subjects, it'll be very much useful to search job in outside other than campus placement. I accept the point that world is moving towards technology and related stuffs. Really automobile sector is also completely transforming into tech related stuffs. But what I'm trying to say is why they can't give training about same technology where it is implemented in automobiles. All they train you is full of C, Python coding and database management systems. These kind of trainings change the mindset of students and they get the thought like, yeah we know coding and will be placed in an IT company with good packages. Then why should we leave this and go for core??? What I'm asking is if you are really want to place in an IT company why should you pick Automobile engineering??? Their minds are fully filled with the negative thoughts such as there's no job in automobile sector and less packages bla bla. It differs from person to person. So think multiple times before picking your career, not just to place in an IT company studying in another field. If you are talking about good salary package and a well settled life, then it's not for you. The guys down there with real passion towards auto sector should be steady in their track and wait for your correct opportunity. All you have to do is to use the correct opportunity and shine. We should be creative and productive. Myself different from others, hates coding and tech related stuffs and really loves machines and mechanics.
Finally what I'm trying to say is If you are really passionate about automobiles you can proceed. Everyone love cars and bikes. But only few of them take it as their life and career. So find what you need and feed according to it. Automobile is good branch of engineering and finally it is good to go for it when you are really passionate about it.