What do you think?
Posted on 07/17/2009 3:09:18 AM PDT by myknowledge
THE world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, hit the streets today.
The first customer was handed the keys to the vehicle its makers hope will transform travel for millions of Indians.
The head of Tata Motors, Ratan Tata, delivered the car in person at a central Mumbai dealership. No details were immediately available about the recipient or the type of Nano being delivered. But analysts said the delivery was a positive step. If follows a land dispute which forced the company to produce the cars in eastern India, delaying its production.
"I think it's very significant," the associate editor of trade magazine Autocar Professional, Darius Lam, told AFP.
"They have been talking about delivering this car since last year and subsequently due to the problems they have had with moving the factory they have had to delay it by at least one year.
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"It really shows that now they are getting their production in hand and are able to start delivering."
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What do you think?
I don’t think I’d fit
Yep I got one a while back at Wal-Mart. When I purchased my last pair of shoe’s.
Bet eco-kooks and safety Nannies will go nuts ( or is that nuttier? ) over its "flaws."
Can't have those peasants becoming more independent, ya know..
Another piece of JUNK
It’s a city car.
These folks will make that very same car here in the Good Ole USA for only $82 bucks an hour.
YUGO copy cats!
Does it come in a 13 EE?
If you're like me, you'd need one for each foot.
Whats it called? The nanu nanu?
Buy One get one free sale?
Indian truck line is the new kid in town
The Tata would lose in a head on collision with anything larger than a shopping cart.
I hope the guy on the right is not in ZZ Top. I’d hate for them top go on strike.
When you think that 25 years ago the target market had no disposable income to speak of, it’s quite an accomplishment to own an automobile by a native manufacturer. Presently, the folks here on FR or in the US can be as dismissive as they want to be, but remember we were dismissive of the Japanese 40 years ago and of the Chinese just 10 years ago.
The way American automobile manufacturing (management and labor) is going, we may soon need the help of companies like Tata and Mahindra.
I'm all for it-- during the Arab Oil Embargo I tried walking to work- pleasant, but it took too long.
Then, I got a bike- faster, but damnation, car drivers kept trying to kill me... you can have that "quaint, peasant lifestyle"-- I want something with an engine in it.
I blame the UAW for a lot of the mess we are in now. I am not a financial analyst nor do I know the machinations of how the economy really works, but I do remember that it was these workers who went on strike for more money and more benefits for what was really unskilled labor. Because they set the standard for union wages and benefits, they sucked our manufacturing industries dry. In the mid ‘80s, when Detroit started to feel the pinch of these policies, a lot of these fellows headed to Texas hoping to get jobs in the oil fields. They could not believe after earning salaries that bought them big houses, big cars and big vacations, the non union South offered them entry level money. They were greedy, and fed off that greed for a long time, now the industry has changed forever.
[The Tata Nano is the new Volkswagen Beetle. ]
I’m thinking “Super Deathtrap” might be more catchy. But I like gadgets no matter what.
What do you think?
Of course, with a name like,
it might have a chance.
After all, they already have a great ad campaign:
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