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Tata Nano Hybrid and Hot Rod Coming to Market
The New York Times ^ | December 9, 2009, 4:15 pm | NICK KURCZEWSKI

Posted on 12/11/2009 5:43:31 AM PST by Cronos

The world’s cheapest car is about to get greener and sportier.

A hybrid version of the tiny Tata Nano has been confirmed by Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, according to South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper.

The current gasoline-powered Nano — on sale in India since April — is hardly a gas guzzler. Powered by a tiny, 35-horsepower 2-cylinder gas engine, the Nano is capable of approximately 50 miles per gallon. A greener variant of this engine (or the larger 3-cylinder motor planned for export markets) could make the Nano the world’s cheapest hybrid.

(Excerpt) Read more at wheels.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: automakers; energy; hybrid; india; tata; tatas
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Hey -- innovation is king!

1 posted on 12/11/2009 5:43:33 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Just when you thought they couldn’t possibly find a way to make an uglier car.


2 posted on 12/11/2009 5:45:58 AM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Cronos; sully777; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; muleskinner; ...

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

3 posted on 12/11/2009 5:47:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: Cronos

YIKES! That car looks like it bites.


4 posted on 12/11/2009 5:47:44 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: Cronos; tubebender
Accelerating from 0-60 miles an hour takes approximately 30 seconds — making the Nano 15 seconds slower than the Smart Fortwo, presently the slowest accelerating car sold in the United States

Well isn't that exciting?!?!?!

5 posted on 12/11/2009 5:48:58 AM PST by SouthTexas (God Bless our Fort Hood Troops)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

I can see a certain resemblance.................

6 posted on 12/11/2009 5:49:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: Cronos

What is this, the mean looking Smart Car?


7 posted on 12/11/2009 5:50:50 AM PST by bmwcyle (When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
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To: Cronos

This is what happens when a VW mates with a golf cart!


8 posted on 12/11/2009 5:50:52 AM PST by ozark hilljilly (I'm an American...not a European.)
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To: Cronos

Looks like the doors are made of blue Saran Wrap,


9 posted on 12/11/2009 5:51:12 AM PST by woofer2425 (You will all be using Macs within 5 years)
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To: Cronos

Ta Ta Motors ... Snicker, snicker


10 posted on 12/11/2009 5:51:36 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: norraad
There has only been one other car this ugly:


11 posted on 12/11/2009 5:53:38 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Cronos

0-60 in 30 seconds. And that’s the “hot rod” version.

I can already see the leftists in their new “hot rods”. Pulling onto the interstate, barely at half the speed limit. Refusing to yield as the enter causing a ripple of traffic congestion behind them. Then cutting people off as they cut across multiple lanes of traffic so they can park themselves in the passing lane - by now doing 3/4 of the speed limit.


12 posted on 12/11/2009 5:54:38 AM PST by chrisser (Tweet not, lest ye a twit be.)
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To: Robe

geez imagine a nice trip from NY to California with the wife and kid in this crap?!?! But it gets 50mph...

The greenies deserve this punishment!


13 posted on 12/11/2009 5:55:19 AM PST by JohnD9207 (REGISTERED RIGHT WING THUG!)
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To: Cronos

Looks like an AWD version would be fun in the snow. I would definitely add a rollcage, though.


14 posted on 12/11/2009 5:55:49 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Cronos

We are moving backward. My 1977 VW Rabbit diesel got 50+ on the highway, had room for 4 adults and luggage with comfort and would cruise at 80. You could get in and out with ease and while the ride was firm (not brutal), it handled well. It was a wonderful car.


15 posted on 12/11/2009 6:04:04 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Cronos

The car appears to be a knockoff of some Darth Vaderish toy from Star Wars.


16 posted on 12/11/2009 6:05:57 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Cronos

Fantastic...you can be buried in it too!


17 posted on 12/11/2009 6:06:56 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
There has only been one other car this ugly:

Oh, I don’t know about that.


18 posted on 12/11/2009 6:08:34 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Cronos

“Powered by a tiny, 35-horsepower 2-cylinder gas engine, the Nano is capable of approximately 50 miles per gallon.”

Big deal. The 1992 Honda Civic VX hatchback got 54 mpg and had a 110hp engine. Pretty good umph for a sub-compact.


19 posted on 12/11/2009 6:11:18 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: Red Badger

BWAhahahahahahahahaha.....

The Vader.


20 posted on 12/11/2009 6:18:21 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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