Tiny Tata Motors Car
We’re not talking tatas til tuesday here, we’re talking tiny tatas! Yes, I know that was cheesy, but what I can say.. I’m a cheesy guy.
Tata Motors is Indias largest manufacturer of motor cars, and if you’ve been paying any attention to the news in the last few months, they’ve announced what they are marketing as the cheapest production motor car in the world… the Tata Nano. The car is designed to be affordable for the regular Indian family, at 112,735 rupees (every time I say rupees I think of Slumdog Millionaire!). That works out to $2,757 of our Canadian loonies, according to the Financial Post’s article on the Nano.
Tata had planned to export the car to North America if there was enough interest, along with other possible countries. Given the cost of this car, it is almost in direct competition with scooter manufacturers… incredible!
There have been production problems with the 30 horsepower micro car that have plagued Tata since beginning production, but they are planning to move to a new plant and have more units underway.
Tata is the same company that purchased Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motorcars. Tata is headquartered in Mumbai, and was started in 1945. Their primary market consisted mostly of light trucks and transport vehicles.