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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.
iPhones prove that cutting corners might not help with the cost anyway.
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!