This is straight up theft. There’s no need to get into the details of contract law, ‘as is’ etc. The ownership of the car changed hands the moment the check was handed over, and the title handed back. At that moment, the car in its extant form, belonged to the buyer.

India succeeded not because of the British, but because it had 3000 years of past civilization, learning and an advanced society with enough human capital to constitute and preserve institutions after gaining independence.

What self-serving garbage. For the better part of 2000 years leading to British colonialism, India and China swapped titles as the biggest economy on the planet. Thanks to UK, they both missed the industrial revolution entirely, and regressed a long way back.