http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/ Engadget Comments for Tata's $2,000 Nano car to hit Indian streets in July http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/!]]>Mar 28th 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 29th 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
everyone around here seemed to hate the fact that 3rd world countries are finally getting affordable transportation for thier needs
oh btw, let me make this easier for u...for the purpose it serves, no airbags are required in this car...its never gonna achieve freeway speeds!
and there were 13 patents granted for the technology used to make this car...

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2. If 99% of the country was too poor to afford these, then please explain why Audis, BMWs and Mercedes cars are selling like hot cakes...I think you got Indian confused with some other country...there are Bentleys in India, and rivate jets and some of the worlds richest ppl...please get a reality check asap

3. We'll just have to see about 'behind the times', right now they seem to be dong just fine in catchin up!]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
2. So because a very, very small percentage of India can afford a Gulfstream or an Audi means its not a poor country? Its per capita income is 165th in the world. 165th. Welcome to reality.

3. "Catching up" by adopting policies that every other developed country has abandoned as a failure?]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/which school of dumb ecnomics did you go to?
the 165th rank is due to the HUGE population!
India is one of the worlds biggest economies with one of the biggest middle class populations

moreever, did your grandpa give you the right to drive while Indians cant?
F U
You can stop driving and convince everyone else around to quit cars as well...just cause you got there before someone else doesnt make it yours]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/". India does not own the environment"
I forgot it's property of the US of A, i'm sorry, please forgive me D:]]>Mar 23rd 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
No need to get so jingoistic as to deny reality. India is poor. Every metric supports that conclusion. And that's ok. There's nothing wrong with being poor. There is something wrong, however, with adopting a failed, environmentally-unsound policy (personal transportation) in a country as large as India. That policy was attempted in other nations and proven a failure. Now, those nations are spending untold fortunes to correct that failure and clean up its impact, and yet India wants to adopt the very same failed policy. Its bad for the environment and, in the long run, bad for India. If you could see past your nationalism, you'd understand that. Instead, your wounded ego just wants to compare penis size. ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/You are stupid. Personal transportation is not the fault it is in fact essential to a democratic system (you get the ability to move everywhere on your own behalf, you get freedom of movement etc). The fault is basing personal transportation on such a pollutant technology like fossile fuel engines. I bet this Tata nano makes a lot more than 40MPG, now ask yourself what are you driving and how does it effect the environment. I hope you don't own a car aswell or else you have no right to tell Indian people who can afford a car not to buy one of these.]]>Mar 23rd 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/ever heard of PPP GDP?
$500 in India vs in USA is very very different...self rightous dumbass]]>Mar 23rd 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
You should just admit you want your cheap cars no matter the social cost, and that you don't give a damn about the environment. At least I could respect the honesty of that argument. But there's no logic in employing a bunch of fallacies and personal insults; you simply come off like children whose big brothers got something you didn't. You guys are so status-oriented, you'd think you'd be embarrassed to embrace such antiquated, caste-off (pun intended) technology. Enjoy oil and coal while the rest of the world moves on to better things. ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
So again, where is your evidence for "the rest of the world moves on to better things."]]>Mar 23rd 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/2-4-billion-electric-vehicle-plan-revealed-in-the-us/

That's the most recent example I could think off in less than two minutes, but there's a whole lot more; I'm just not going to waste any more energy on you than I have to. Do your own google search for the developed world's move towards green energy (try "Dutch wind farms"; "German solar panel industry"; etc., etc., etc.). But I'm sure that's not enough for you, right? ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
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1. You asked for proof, and I provided it; just because you don't accept it doesn't make it so.
2. You're not addressing my argument, you're simply trying to redirect the discussion towards a tired indictment of the US (as if its the only country that makes up the developed world).

In two posts you've managed to prove yourself both wrong AND irrational, so there's really no reason to respond to you. I'll leave you a quote from Obama, taken from the link you obviously didn't click: "The nation that leads on energy will be the nation that leads in the 21st century". ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
Your point of view is definitely not wrong. There's a lot of weight in the statement that there are better paths to adopt then manufacture a gasoline based low cost vehicle. But an important point here is that latest technologies don't come cheap. So a country needs to have reached a certain stage in its development cycle for it to be able to invest and build products that make use of the latest technologies (for example electric cars, etc). Availability of cheap affordable transportation is a major factor in facilitating the development of a country along with other factors like infrastructure, etc.

It's not always required that the country has to be well developed to adopt some new technology. For example, India skipped landlines and directly jumped to the mobile revolution since it was quite cheap and could be afforded by most people. India is currently the fastest growing market for cellular devices. But cars are way costlier and the difference in cost between a new environment friendly car (like an electric or a hybrid) and the Tata Nano is too huge a difference for consumers (of a developing country) to afford. So given the situation the country currently finds itself in, the Nano is an excellent help to move the country towards a more developed state. Unless someone finds a way to come up with cheap environment friendly solutions, I think the developing world in general will follow down the same path that developed countries took in the past..

KP]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7951331.stm]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/it's so hypocritic.
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Though I am not happy with this development, cause I am from Delhi and the roads are already choc-a-bloc with cars. These would ensure that people who were driving scooters will shift to cars (Cars are a symbol of prosperity in India) and then it makes driving even worse.

Though going back from Seattle to Delhi roads is so much fun. I mean you can be a raving loony driving your car on the road and ti would seem normal driving in India.


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Toyota, Honda, and Nissan (Datsun) used to be laughed at for putting out "rice burners" and other econoboxes. Today, they've eaten the Big 3's lunch.

Then along came the Koreans with Hyundai and Kia. Again, they were laughed at for making junk. Today, they are sharing the Big 3's lunch.

Given history, I would be very careful about laughing at the Chinese and Indians for their initial efforts. In 10 - 15 years, we could all very well be driving around in Cherry's and Tata's. with their huge domestic markets, they can quickly drive down costs with massive economies of scale.]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
There is nothing about this car that even comes close to being safe, but it does meet the demographic for really cheap cars that sometimes get you to your destination in one piece. ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 23rd 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/
*puts up magic "thats what she said" reflecting wall*]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/tatas-2-000-nano-car-to-hit-indian-streets-in-july/Mar 25th 2009 6:23AM