Posted on 03/26/2010 5:55:01 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat
When it was launched less than a year ago, the $2,500 Tata Nano was promoted as a safe, ultra-cheap car for poor Indians, an alternative to the motorbikes that zoom precariously around the country.
New questions about the safety of the pint-sized auto are being raised, however, after one of them burst into flames Sunday as it was being driven home from the showroom.
Software engineer Satish Sawant, his wife and 5-year-old son escaped from the silver Tata Nano — which still bore a celebratory garland of marigolds on the front hood — before the tiny car was engulfed by fire.
A chauffeur initially was at the wheel, but Sawant said he had taken over driving before the fire broke out. Tata has offered Sawant a replacement Nano or a refund.
"My wife now doesn't want to buy any car," Sawant said by phone from his home in northern Mumbai on Thursday. "She doesn't even want to go for a Mercedes."
His ordeal showed just the latest problem with the low-cost Nano as Tata Motors sets its sights on global expansion and aims to ramp up production of the car with a new factory next month.
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I think that’s Lady GaGa. Supposedly she’s the new hot singer for teens nowadays. Looks like a man to me.
Okaaay... Just...dang.
I've heard of devaluation after leaving the lot; but, this is ridiculous!
You’re just dreaming of a job you’ll never have!
Cheers!
You’re gonna have to work two jobs to keep up with all the scrutinizin’ goin’ on out dere!
I saw a Mercedes on fire once by the side of the San Diego Freeway. That is one scary situation. The thing was fully engulfed, and people were trying to stay as far from it as possible and still drive past it.
Duty above all else!
Guess they don’t have QS 9000, ISO or TS in India.
I’ve got the answer to this problem — require that ALL Tata Motors products be parked at curbside on streets in the suburbs of Paris! Ta-da! Problem solved. It’s what I do.
Thanks grey_whiskers.
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