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Tata for Now

Jan 11, 2008 16:16

Time to scratch off the "Powered by Rice" bumper stickers and print up the "Powered by Curry" ones.

Introducing the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano! (Tata: Indian for "Fahrvergnügen")

Huzzah!

( Hi, Tata )

Comments 7

erasure25 January 12 2008, 02:25:39 UTC

One of the big questions is the environmental impact of having hundreds of thousands of new Tata's (cars, not boobs) on the road. I'm not so sure I would ever buy such a car. I mean, some models don't even come with a radio. I would, however, buy a SMART car if it were available in the USA as a hybrid model.

uoftsaturnguy January 12 2008, 03:25:02 UTC

The smart will be available hopefully in the 2009 model year as a mild hybrid.

I currently have a deposit down on a gas 2008 smart fortwo... I'm counting the minutes - it's going to be a couple of months though :(

juanoclock January 13 2008, 03:10:58 UTC

I saw one of these in Pasadena on the freeway. It wasn't setting any land speed records, but was holding its own nevertheless.

juanoclock January 13 2008, 03:12:54 UTC

Yeah, there is the pollution issue. I can't even begin to imagine what the streets of Mumbai would look like with hundreds of thousands of these things crawling all over it. Polluted enough from what I hear.

dsign January 12 2008, 20:00:35 UTC

Speaking of cheap Indian automobiles, what ever happened to that one with cardboard bodywork and compressed air power?

juanoclock January 13 2008, 03:48:42 UTC

Is that the Trabant?

dsign January 13 2008, 17:13:53 UTC

Ok, I was mixing those two. You may already know that Tata is working with MDI on the air-powered car...