hi,

see right now in india there is demand in IT sector, so thats why your friends are telling you to go for it, but if you dont have passion for it ,, you should not go, we can not give our 100 percent in studies if you do not have passion for it, now coming to automobile sector, if you do not belongs to tier 1 engineering colleges, it is really difficult to get a high paying job or a position in core auto mobile sector, however it since automobile is a semi branch of mechanical engineering, I would recommend you to go for mechanical engineering, where there is field related work and also design engineer positions are available, however mechanical branch is quite hard , has lots of mathematics and physics application.