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RIP Tata Nano, the World's Cheapest Car (cnet.com)
From a report: Well, you guys, pour one out for the Tata Nano. The world's cheapest car is all but dead. According to Bloomberg, Tata Motors built one single Nano in June 2018. During the same month in 2017, Tata produced 275. As a final nail in the coffin, Tata told Bloomberg the car "cannot continue beyond 2019." The Tata Nano entered the Indian market in 2008 priced from just 100,000 rupees, or about $1,500. The price increased over time, and according to Tata Motors' website, an entry-level Nano starts at 236,447 rupees today, or $3,435 based on current exchange rates. Right from the get-go, the Nano was plagued with production issues, not to mention poor safety and dismal crash test results. The cars were also known to catch fire, which, uh, isn't good.
You don't get the cheapest anything without cutting corners.
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Originally they wanted to produce a car that regular Indians could afford instead of auto rickshaws or motorcycles.
Obviously such and incredibly cheap car is going to cut all kinds of corners and won't be comparable to a regular car.
Maybe they should just build an updated version. Producing the same car for over a decade isn't going to work out well.
It's easy to scoff at a cheap car that cut obvious corners and was far behind what we expect for first-world motor vehicle transport that costs an order of magnitude above what millions of people in developing nations can affort...
It takes some mental effort to respect that fact that Tata brought car-based mobility to a new generation of people that otherwise couldn't afford the level of vehicles we enjoy in more developed nations today... it wasn't too long ago (~50 years) that we were driving cars worse in quality and safety than the Nano... and they cost a pretty penny even for first world nations at the time...so why begrudge and scoff at another developing nation's progress on the same path we also walked (albeit earlier)?
Better that than RIP all those future Tata Nano drivers...
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The Tata Nano was supposed to cut motorcycle accident deaths in India, not compete with BMWs or Audis. In India, quite often multiple poor people will ride on a motorcycle together, sometimes mommy, daddy and three kids, and then die in a horrific way when there is a collision with a car or a roadside barrier. So Tata tried to create a very cheap car to replace those deadly motorcycles. This was about cutting motoring deaths, not creating the next big thing in motoring. In my opinion Nano didn't die at all because of poor sales numbers. The family that owns Tata motors simply got threatened by bigger car manufacturers into killing their sub 4K automobile before it can evolve into a cheap AND relatively safe ride. The big motor companies wouldn't threaten Tata you say? Really? The people who cheated on everything from safety standards to Diesel emissions wouldn't threaten an Indian conglomerate that has nobody protecting it? And where is the rest of the automobile industry's answer to the Tata Nano? There's dozens of poor countries that are pretty much "motorbike death city". The people who can built Peugeots, Seats, VolksWagens and Skoda's can't make a cheap car for these countries? (Hint: They can, but they simply won't. Too risky for their higher priced cars' future sales.)
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
âoeRight from the get-go, the Nano was plagued with production issues, not to mention poor safety and dismal crash test results. The cars were also known to catch fire, which, uh, isn't good.â
Obviously, Tata doesnâ(TM)t know know how to build cars, because building cars is easy. According to the Tesla bashers, that is.
Sounds like they did a better job producing cars than Tesla. At least they had some rolling off the assembly line. . . .
You sure talk about Trump a lot. Do you want to have sex with him that badly? It sounds like your anger is you trying to suppress sexual urges.
When he gets dumped in Federal prison, anyone who wants to have sex with his obese retarded traitor butterball ass will be just a shower away. Tell your prison buddies, Fox Faggot.
I got two Tata Nanos so I could have my own pair of tatas.
Can you name the car with no wheel drive,
smells like a cow and seats three-point-five.
Tata Nano! Tata Nano!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by clowns!
Tata Nano! (Yah!) Tata Nano!
[CPI(M)] : Hey Hey
2 meters long, half a lane wide,
65 kilos of Indian Pride!
Tata Nano! Tata Nano!
Impossible to export,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Tata Nano! Tata Nano! (Yah!)
The driver is blind 'cause of her super weak beams,
She's a squirrel powered, deer sized, driving machine!
Tata Nano!-oh woah, Tata Nano! (Yah!)
Drive Tata Nano!
And you know how much the Indians HATE TOILETS!
RIP Tata Nano, the World's Cheapest Car
Or in other words: tata, Tata.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Sounds like you have expert knowledge about what you're talking about.
Unless you leave out the other choice: reliable.
Prices sound comparable to a motorcycle. I wonder how safety compares. You'd climb into the Nano wearing shorts and nothing on your head. You wear ATGATT on a motorcycle if you've got sense. ie, the Nano might lull you into a sense of complacency with what looks like a safety cage but really isn't.
It seems like a moot point anyway. If you want cheap (or can only afford cheap) transportation there and are willing to cut corners on safety, don't most Indians opt for a scooter anyway? And they ride without helmets, right? So what's the point?
In other words, Not a real car, way more expensive than a scooter so not serving either market very well.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
LOL. By "whistleblower", you mean the sabateur who tried to frame his coworkers, had dozens of behavioral complaints against him, and threatened to shoot up the Gigafactory. But now he's pretending that none of that ever happened. No, no, he's Good Mr. Public Interest now! Couldn't have saboutaged anything - why, he doesn't even know how to program! Except, well, he does, and when that was pointed out to him, he tried to hide his Stack Overflow, Adafruit and Scribd accounts. On, and for bonus points, can anyone guess what the only other thing on his Scribd account apart from programming/sysadmin docs was? Why, gun documents!
His alibis on Twitter for his behavior are getting increasingly hilarious. Why, the gun documents and sysadmin files, those were just things he had lying around to trade for guitar tabs, dontchaknow!
The big brain am winning again! I am the greetist! Now I am leaving for no particular raisin!
Stop shorting Tesla stock Timmy, and get upstairs, the dinner is served.
It was also the most self-ignitable
I have seen nano's being driven for 1,00,000 Km over few years without problem and it is a very good vehicle to drive through city traffic and also on a highway at 90 k.m per hour. It has a decent a/c,blue tooth and even an automatic transmission version which had a waiting list. It had a rear engine and at its price it can not have a heavier structure to take care of side impact.
It was a great vision of Ratan Tata and a great car.
Now Tata's have purchased land rover and jaguar and running it profitably for years , They have access to better technology. They have a huge set of industries from steel to salt and software. They are in the commercial vehicle business for decades and are making decent cars for a long time.They have won the contract to build battery driven vehicles(a pilot lot) for government of India, With all these if they can come with a battery operated nano or another vehicle the can give Tesla run for the money
Tesla shills are out in force.
Hey, hey, we're Adobe! The little car that's made out of clay
L'Idiot
We hardly knew ye.
> It takes some mental effort to respect that fact that Tata brought car-based mobility to a new generation of people that otherwise couldn't afford the level of vehicles we enjoy in more developed nations today.
Not really. The car was a flop from almost the beginning.
People preferred to buy a better 2nd hand car which was at the same price as the Nano.
Tata Motor was the #2 car company in India after Maruti Suzuki before they introduced the Nano. Nano was their CEO Ratan Tata's pet project. Ratan Tata assumed the car would sell on it's own without much marketing & advertising expenditure. But the car didn't. People preferred to buy a 2nd hand car which cost the same as a new Nano but was a much better car. Ergo, the Nano was a flop. But because it was the CEO's pet project, the company wouldn't let it go, they spent a lot of money & effort over years to make sure the car doesn't die. Tata Motors went to losses because of the time, effort & money they spent on the car. They lost their position in the market. It was only after Ratan Tata resigned & a new CEO took over that the company was turned around again. And now they have at last stopped production of the car - something which should have been done 5-6 years back.
> Well, you guys, pour one out for the Tata Nano.
If you insist. (fap fap fap)
What fun are crashes without the requisite fireball?
There will always be a world's cheapest car, as long as there are cars.
That depends. Is there a widow in it?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Save the Tatas!
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
What poor word use... I assume they also say "could care less" for things they actually don't care about, too.
So its like a Tesla?