All those predictions of suped-up rickshaws appear to have been confounded by Mr Tata (does anyone else think he looks like Harrison Ford?) and his team of engineers.
The Nano is a natty little beauty of a car and – packed as it is with 34 patented technologies – shows that the age-old complaint that India can’t do original R&D is fast becoming out-dated.
I don’t however recommend Westerners rush out and try and import a Nano. It’s a brilliant concept for India, but I suspect, like the super-cheap computers aimed at the developing world, might be rather frustratingly low-spec for the West.
Interview with Ratan Tata: Making of Nano Economic Times, India - 2 hours ago Nearly 72 hours before the launch of his dream car, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata spent 90 minutes with ET for a one-on-one on the making of the people’s …
India’s Tata Motors touts world’s cheapest new car Newsday, NY - 2 hours ago BY TOM INCANTALUPO | tom.incantalupo@newsday.com 7:46 PM EST, January 10, 2008 India’s Tata Motors attracted worldwide attention yesterday by announcing …
India gears up for mass motoring revolution with £1260 car Guardian Unlimited, UK - 3 hours ago It has no radio, no boot, no airbag, no passenger-side mirror and just one long windscreen wiper. And if you want air-conditioning to deal with India’s …
Volvo to launch S80 sedan next month, priced Rs 38 lakh onwards
NEW DELHI: Swedish car major Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) on Wednesday announced plans to make its debut in India with two flagship products – S80 sedan and sports utility vehicle XC90 SUV– with prices starting at Rs 38 lakh and Rs 45 lakh respectively.
VCC, which will be launching its two products early next month, said both the vehicles will be available in petrol (3.2 ltr and 4.4 ltr) and diesel variants (2.5 ltr) at the three Volvo dealerships, one each in Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh.
The Hero Group would be launching high-speed battery-run two-wheelers as also three-wheelers in a few months, but has no plans, as of now, to introduce electric four-wheelers.
“We are working on and testing the battery-run three-wheelers for a launch. We would also be launching battery-run e-bikes with speeds between 40 – 50 km per hour in the next six months,†said Mr Naveen Munjal, Chief Executive Officer, Hero Exports, and Mr Ganesh Mahalingam, Managing Director, Ultra Motor India Pvt Ltd.
NEW DELHI: The Rs 1-lakh car isn’t the only affordable technology that Tata Motors will introduce in 2008. India’s largest four-wheel automaker has plans to bring out cars fired by compressed air, the cheapest auto fuel in the world.
Tata Motors will start producing cars running on air fuel, sometime in 2008. These are expected to deliver the lowest running cost across all passenger car segments, and could be much lower than CNG, the cheapest on-road fuel (with a running cost of a rupee per kilometre) right now. The cost of a fuel refill would be about Rs 90, and each refill is expected to deliver a distance in the range of 150-200 km.
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