Posted on 06/02/2010 1:09:34 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
What it replaces in India is a family of five or six on a motor scooter in the monsoon. With that as the alternative, it ain't half bad.
Faster, safer and more efficient than a Model T, BTW.
Sure, for India.
Hell, Mexico could use them too, from some of the insane motorcycle/family action I’ve seen.
Not for America.
I see FAIL in a suspension built for tofu eating Indians being used by a pair of 300lb. Big Mac eating Americans.
I doubt I fit in it at 6’6”. The Honda Civic and BMW mini are also discriminatory against tall people.
Yeah - we’re kind of seeing a repeat of the 50s and 60s with India and China rather than Germany and Japan.
Their ad jingle here in the States:
“I love Tatas, big and small...
I love Tatas, don’t we all?”
all the charm of a Trabant without the pesky 2-cycle oil...
Weight will go up, so will engine size to compensate, new engines will be procured, and price will go up. That’s exactly what happened to the Smart car over here. You can get an 80 mpg diesel elsewhere, over here it’s gas with half the mileage.
I am sure the Liberal Free Trader Globalists, who love anything that is not American, are just wetting themselves over this Tata
Being made by Indians....it will be a cut rate, poor performing car. Of course, if it ever needs servicing.....good luck calling Mumbai for help.
Private industry takes risks, to employ people in good paying jobs, making and selling a product targeted for a growing upwardly mobile market of consumers.
Precisely what should be celebrated, by political conservatives.
(Business planners recognize India and China, for having the biggest potential market for consumer goods. Each has potentially 300,000,000 people coming into a “middle-class” status that want and can afford to buy consumer goods. That is a potential market equal in size to the USA plus Europe, for math majors.)
Who wrote this? George Soros? David Rockefeller? Ban Ki-Moon.
Real conservatives celebrate job creation in the United States of America. If you think this Tata Nano, or any other product coming out of developing Asia is of any quality....you need to move yourself over to that building along the East River in NYC where all the Globalist nutjobs reside.
Most Indians will never afford this car, nor most Communist Chinese
That’s what made Toyota at first - a bunch of liberal kids getting back at daddy by buying a Japanese car.
Toyota was also helped in that it was 1. priced competitively relative to Detroit 2. Good on gas and 3. Didn’t rust after two years like most GM and Chrysler products at the time. That is the REAL reason why Toyota took off in the 1970s.
In 10 yrs India and China will be building cars for the US market that will be very, very competitive.
I remember the same jokes about Hondas and Toyotas in the 70s and Hyundais and Kias in the early 90s.
“Real conservatives celebrate job creation in the United States of America. If you think this Tata Nano, or any other product coming out of developing Asia is of any quality....you need to move yourself over to that building along the East River in NYC where all the Globalist nutjobs reside.”
Yeah, I remember as a kid all of the jokes about Japanese toys.
Driven a Lexus lately?
Watching Hyundai rise to better and better market image?
“Most Indians will never afford this car, nor most Communist Chinese.”
You must have missed the FACT that last year more vehicles were sold in China, than in former number one market—the US.
More Buicks were sold in China than in the US.
Toyota sucked until the very late 70s - rust and fires were quite an issue in the Coronas and Corollas.
In other words, Tata understand their market very, very well. The US regulatory requirements would not allow a car like this, but most of the world doesn't live under those rules, and US car makers should not be content to hide behind those regulations. The big question is, can US car companies who want to have an overseas presence compete with this? If not, they'd better be able to very quickly.
And you'd be surprised. Mr Ratan Tata himself is 6' 3" and 4 people his size could easily fit in the car. The only downside is that you may end up rubbing shoulders with the person on your left/right. It is far more spacious than many premium Japanese cars sold in India.
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