The year long wait is finally over. Tata Nano has been officially launched at The Taj Mahal Palace today at 4:30PM IST.
* Three Tata Nano variants launched
* Sale of booking forms from start of April 2009
* Cost of application form – Rs.300
* Booking forms available at centers across 1000 cities
* First 1 Lakh customers will be selected on the basis of Lot
* Delivery to start from July 2009
* State Bank of India to offer loans and to be the exclusive partner for bookings and financial management
* To be offered for a down payment of Rs.2999
* Online booking through Internet Banking
Castrol will provide Tata Nano its engine oil. After two years of intense Research and Development, Tata Motors and Castrol have jointly developed a specialised low cost, fuel efficient lubricant exclusively for the Tata Nano. This lubricant is expected to reduce emissions, improve mileage and ensure higher engine longevity of the world’s cheapest car.
Our insider at the Tata Nano launch in Mumbai, IAB Managing Editor Shrawan Raja a.k.a. Jaz tells us that the level of security arrangments made in Mumbai, preceeding the Tata Nano launch makes him stand in awe.
Since Tata expects over a 1000 guests and about 100 international media companies (including IndianAutosBlog.com), the security better be foolproof and tight.
This is a part of IAB’s special stream of Tata Nano launch updates. More updates coming right up.
As the whole world waits with bated breath, and countsdown for the launch of the World’s cheapest car – The Tata Nano, we at IndianAutosBlog.com are fully equipped to feed you with the latest information, straight from the Official Launch.
Indianautosblog’s Managing Editor Shrawan Raja a.k.a. Jaz has embarked on a historic journey (Chennai to Mumbai) to the launch of the most awaited car in the history of the Indian Automobile space – Tata Nano. He anticipates to meet the “who’s & who’s?” of the Auto Industry and the Senior Managers of Tata Motors.
All throughout the day, we will bring you the latest stream of updates from the launch, Exclusive images, and stuff about the Nano which you had never heard of !
More updates coming right up.. Stay Tuned to Indianautosblog.com. We mean business, so we’ll keep you informed.
No.. We’re not joking or displaying the wrong set of Images! One has to observe very closely indeed to notice the changes that have gone into the new Honda Civic facelift – launched in Malaysia.
The “recession facelift” as our friend over at paultan.org calls it, happens to be a cost cutting measure to improve the sales of the existing over-engineered Honda Civic. That’s what we call “a facelift for facelift sake” 
Indian Autos Blog’s authors are going through older posts, checking for errors and fixing broken links. This is why we have not been posting articles for the whole of yesterday and today.
We have been setting the layout straight, optimizing databases, checking for errors and making banners. This is something which we have not done till now, and we find it really mind numbing.
Car scratches could be a thing of the past if what these scientists have come up with finds its way on car bodies. They have come up with an innovative special coating that self-heals. You heard it right – It will self-heal when it is exposed to sunlight.
The Toyota Prius was on display at the 18th International Engineering and Technology Fair (IETF )held in Bangalore last month. It was there for one reason- to get an idea of what Indians feel about Toyota’s extremely popular hybrid car.
