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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Thatz the kind of sh!t box Chairman Zero wants all of us pleebs to have to drive, if he gets his way.
LOL.
Would the Zero ever authorize GM to produce such automobiles, if he is a fascist?
If anything the likes of Chairman Zero actually have a problem with the fact that this car is likely to increase green house gasses and will bring economic independence and freedom of mobility to a large section of lower income population.
I guess the Free Trader Globalist crowd will go gaga over the Tata (of course they like all foreign crap over American, anyway), but this car should be called the caca.
If an American company built a car like this...with American workers.....the same people who are loving the Indians would be bashing Americans
They expect to sell this little car with no suspension in the Third World? There are few good roads in the Third World, or India, for that matter. These things will be broken down on the side of the dirt road
And, you are not going to haul up to 4 people around in a air-cooled lawn mower engine car in India on hot months.
I bet the owners manual is a lot like an Indian call-center....in broken English, and not very helpful
I commute 78 miles a day. At today’s gas prices (and they will skyrocket again at some point) - sign me up!
I’m not an idiot — I’m quite aware that Zero had nothing to do with this car. And yes, I’m quite aware that it is not loaded up with emission equip.
My point was a general one, which you missed, and was that Zero wants to eliminate SUV’s and put us all in sh!t boxes on the general order of this vehicle, perhaps with emissions equip added.
We already have plenty of small sh!t boxes on the market in the US, and they are not selling particularly well. While the manufacturers can’t keep up with demand for pickups and SUV’s.
It is none of Zero’s damn business what type of vehicle any manufacturer builds, or any citizen buys. He has taken over car companies in violation of the US Constitution, and he has no Constitutional right to tell citizens what products they can or cannot buy.
You sound like a nanny state Liberal, FR n00b. I’d say welcome to FR, but with your attitude, perhaps you would fit in better over at DU. Or perhaps are you just an everyday DU troll, which we see plenty of.
And honestly I care less if the SUVs are selling well or not. Its fine if they are. However thats absolutely not the case. I would appreciate if you would be so kind as to point me to any article or source of your info that says American SUVs sales have picked up ........especially against small/midsized Japanese cars. If manufacturers cant keep up with demand for pickups and SUV’s why is GM selling the hummer to the Chinese and filling for bankruptcy and why is Chrysler is selling itself to the Italian Fiat? Yeah lets see what you got.
First, GM was forced to file for bankruptcy by Obama after Obama had already bailed them out with taxpayer $. GM was in trouble because union contracts (which they signed) to pay the healthcare of workers who no longer worked there were bankrupting them, plus the quality of the product they produced was not competing well overall. Chrysler is in trouble for similar reasons, and they were forced by the Zero administration to do the deal with Fiat.
In both cases, the conservative point of view is that there should have been neither bailouts of these private corporations, nor goobermint takeovers, nor gobbermint interference of any kind. If the companies couldn’t make it, let the chips fall where they may, including if that means bankruptcy. Government interference in these private matters is Fascism.
I’m not a “fan” of SUV’s. I’m a “fan” of Freedom, and limited Constitutional government. What we have now is a completely out-of-control unConstitutional nanny state government that wants to tax and regulate us into serfdom, and tell us what we can and can not buy, and where we can and cannot go.
That’s all you get. I’m not your frickin’ graduate assistant who does research per your request when you snap your fingers.
Have a nice day, n00b.
You too have a good weekend n00b.
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