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Sometimes being cheap and cheerful just isn’t enough. Production delays, land debates and questions over occupant safety are killing the Tata Nano faster than an unexplained engine fire. India’s people car is struggling in spite of the nation’s booming car market and a low asking price of just US$2,900, half of what its nearest rival costs.
- Tata Launches Upgraded Genx Nano In India With New Automated Manual
The Tata Nano was too cheap and cheap-looking for its own good, which is why the Indian automaker has given it a consistent update, even changing the car’s name in the process. Read more »...
- Tata Nano: World's Most Affordable Car Receives A $4.6 Million Gold Treatment [with Videos]
When Ratan Tata revealed the $2,500 Nano mini car in India in January 2008, the owner and Chairman of Tata Motors, made headlines the world over with the world’s cheapest car. Three years later the Nano has faced a spontaneous-combusting debacle...
- Flame On! Fifth Tata Nano Bursts Into Flames...
Another Nano, the fifth from since 2009, has gone up in smoke, this time in Gujarat, western India. For reference, the last one toasted itself in Mumbai in late March, 2010. According to Business Week, an email from Tata states that "the car belonged...
- Spontaneous Combusting Nanos? Another Tata Goes Up In Flames
Tata Motors' Nano city car is once again making headlines in India, but not for the reasons you might think. Following three separate cases in 2009 when owners of the Nano in Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Delhi reported seeing smoke and flames coming out...
- Tata Reveals European Version Of Nano Minicar At Geneva Show
Indian automaker Tata is preparing to launch the world's cheapest car, the rear-engined, four-seater Nano in Europe. In Geneva, Tata took the wraps off the European-spec version of the minicar which will go on sale in India this April, priced from...
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India's Car Market Booming yet Customers Show Little Love for Tata Nano
Sometimes being cheap and cheerful just isn’t enough. Production delays, land debates and questions over occupant safety are killing the Tata Nano faster than an unexplained engine fire. India’s people car is struggling in spite of the nation’s booming car market and a low asking price of just US$2,900, half of what its nearest rival costs.
With economic growth at a staggering 9% per annum and a 22% year-to-date increase in car sales, Tata must have felt it was onto a sure thing. Things started out good, with 200,000 advanced orders for the sub-subcompact before its 2009 launch.
However, sales have been flagging these past four months with the Indian carmaker selling just 509 Nano’s in November, down from 9,000 in July.
Read more »- Tata Launches Upgraded Genx Nano In India With New Automated Manual
The Tata Nano was too cheap and cheap-looking for its own good, which is why the Indian automaker has given it a consistent update, even changing the car’s name in the process. Read more »...
- Tata Nano: World's Most Affordable Car Receives A $4.6 Million Gold Treatment [with Videos]
When Ratan Tata revealed the $2,500 Nano mini car in India in January 2008, the owner and Chairman of Tata Motors, made headlines the world over with the world’s cheapest car. Three years later the Nano has faced a spontaneous-combusting debacle...
- Flame On! Fifth Tata Nano Bursts Into Flames...
Another Nano, the fifth from since 2009, has gone up in smoke, this time in Gujarat, western India. For reference, the last one toasted itself in Mumbai in late March, 2010. According to Business Week, an email from Tata states that "the car belonged...
- Spontaneous Combusting Nanos? Another Tata Goes Up In Flames
Tata Motors' Nano city car is once again making headlines in India, but not for the reasons you might think. Following three separate cases in 2009 when owners of the Nano in Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Delhi reported seeing smoke and flames coming out...
- Tata Reveals European Version Of Nano Minicar At Geneva Show
Indian automaker Tata is preparing to launch the world's cheapest car, the rear-engined, four-seater Nano in Europe. In Geneva, Tata took the wraps off the European-spec version of the minicar which will go on sale in India this April, priced from...