Company Chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano — price tag $2,500 — during India’s main auto show, drove onto a stage in a white version of the tiny four-door subcompact, his head nearly scraping the roof.
With a snub nose and a sloping roof, it can fit five people — if they squeeze. And the basic version is spare: there’s no radio, no passenger-side mirror and only one windshield wiper. If you want air conditioning to cope with India’s brutal summers, you need to get the deluxe version.
Not going to ever want to be in a situation like that :eyebrow:
I will use this thread to rant(once again).
Maybe once the UAW is affected by countries like Inida and China something will be done but for now no one gives a flying fuck about my company or its employees.
That is all for now.
2 cylinder with 33 HP and it only gets 50 MPG? Aren’t there imports that get close to that on the highway with a 4?
I’d totally take a 7 or so year old used car for my $2500, but thats just me.
Who gives a shit if it’s a death trap, or unreliable, or comes to the US or not, or even if it’s just generally a poor automobile. The key part is it runs on gas and is going to enable a whole lot of India’s 1.3 billion population who couldn’t afford a car previously to now have a car.
What does that mean to you? It means a lot more people using up that resource you’re always bitching about costing too much… OIL, and it’s brother GASOLINE.
And for you global warming people, it’s a whole lot more CO2 output, especially since most of these cars are just going to be stuck in traffic because India’s infrastructure can’t handle it.
This is going to have such a larger effect socially, economically, technologically and environmentally. It’s like when the model T was first built in the US.
