Tata Motors says it will deliver up to 60,000 units of the ultra-cheap Nano, by July 2010, Touted as the world’s cheapest car, the Nano is getting its passport prepared to wade international waters after the mother plant Sanand reaches completion.
Ratan Tata said the new Sanand plant will be ready by the financial year end and it would have a capacity of 250,000 units per year.
The Nano is currently manufactured at the Pantnagar facility, where the Ace pickup truck is made, which has an annual capacity of 50,000 cars.
The company says the first 1,00,000 deliveries will be completed by October-December 2010 from both the facilities.
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Tata Motors has announced that its Pantnagar production plant which is manufacturing the first batch of Nanos, will continue to roll out cars even after the mother plant in Sanand, Gujarat is ready next year.
Tata Nano‘s distribution to dealers around India will be taken care of by a new company – Tata Motors Distribution.
Meanwhile, the first Nano will be delivered to its customer today. More information is awaited in the coming hours.
Pantnagar’s Tata facility we hear, is bustling with activity these days. Reports suggest that, Tata Nano is ready and likely to hit the dealer networks by February 2009 end. Both the “base” model and the “fully loaded” model will be available at the dealer showrooms mid-to late February. Tata Motors is keen to drive the Nano into dealer showrooms for potential customers to look at and get a feel of the car, which is expected to be a volume grosser for the company eventually.
Undeterred by the slowdown and poor sales (or rather bitten by it), Bajaj has drawn up a serious plan to get back to where it belongs-at the top. The home grown manufacturer has drawn up a schedule coming up with a host of launches back to back in the coming year. Read on to find out more.
After the infamous tumultuous journey, the most eagerly anticipated car of 2009 (as per our polls)- The Tata Nano, may finally roll out on January 26. Tata dealers and Auto experts say that Republic Day would be a preferred day to bring out the ‘People’s Car’. So, the Tata Nano is now all set to reach the homes of the People, but bookings will not open until March 2009.
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Head of Tata Motors’ engineering department, Nagbhushan, said that Tata Motors has sent ‘Release Candidate Test Mules’ of its one-lakh car – The Nano from its Pantnagar plant to three cities DehraDun, Almora and Ranikhet in the state of Uttarakhand, where its test run would be conducted for a day or two – in order to check the cars road ability and to implement vital updates to the cars dynamics.
As 2008 draws to a close, all eyes will be set on the much-awaited Tata Nano, reportedly to be launched in the last quarter of this financial year (Jan-Mar’09). The company dealers however are still left clueless and are not in any position to tell customers when ‘the people’s car’ will be launched. Tata motors is taking a defensive by not revealing much about the Nano. IAB to the reader’s rescue!
Tata has started The Nano’s production at its Pantnagar(Uttarakhand) existing facility and has geared up to roll out its first batch of Nano cars by the first quarter of 2009. Despite the start of production, it quite inevitable that Tata Nano is likely to miss its promised launch by the end of this year. Clues were given by vendors who were asked to supply components for only 3,500 – 4,000 [ Read More ]
