While you are in Coimbatore, don't miss the chance to visit Gedee Car Museum, which is touted as one of its kind in India with some of the exhibited cars not to be seen anywhere else in the country. Every significant development in the automobile industry along with a lot of wheels from all over the world is on display. It is a tribute to well-known scientist, inventor, educationalist and philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (GD Naidu) (1893–1974), also referred to as the Edison of India.