Tata Nano - world's cheapest new car is unveiled in India
(Money Sharma/EPA)
A team of 500 people worked on creating the Nano - Tata aims to prove that India can compete on the world market as an innovative car maker
It is 3 metres long, seats four comfortably or five at a squeeze, does 65mph and aims to revolutionise travel for millions. The “People’s Car” is also the cheapest in the world at 100,000 rupees (£1,300) – the same price as the DVD player in a Lexus.
The Nano, from Tata, the Indian conglomerate bidding for Jaguar and Land Rover, was unveiled at the Delhi Auto Expo yesterday to music from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ratan Tata, the company chairman, harked back to the first flight by the Wright Brothers and the Moon landing as he revealed the cute, snub-nosed hatchback that will allow millions in India’s emerging middle classes to buy a car for the first time.
“I hope this changes the way people travel in rural India. We are a country of a billion and most are denied connectivity,” he said. “This is a car that is affordable and provides all-weather transport for the family.”
If a feller were really naive, he'd think that the liberals of the world would rejoice! Finally, all those poor folks in countries like India and China will be able to afford an automobile and get around like the rest of us. Lik
e Henry Ford did here a 100 years ago, mass transportation is being brought to the masses...But NOOOO! They are all wringing their hands with concern that all these folks driving these 50 MPG, 2 cylinder, low emission automobiles might end the planet. How dare they want basic transport and the ability to travel around their own country!
If Marie Antoinette (the Ivory Tower Al Gore of her century) were living today, she'd probably say. "Let them hire rickshaws!"
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