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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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.
Is trouble Tata Nano’s middle name? As it appeared like the decks were cleared for a delayed launch of the car, more trouble has come for Tata Motors in the form of extended delays of future variants. Even before it could hit the Indian roads, the Tata Nano has a huge demand in developed markets in Western Europe and understandably, as their need for cheap transportation is similar to India’s. [ Read More ]
It has been exactly a week since Tata pulled out its Nano project from Singur. In the mean time the Bengal government has already made agreements with an ‘anonymous automobile company’ to fill the void left by the Tatas. This information was supplemented by the Transport and Sports Minister, Subhas Chakrabarty in a private TV interview. The MoU will be signed between the Government and the ‘anonymous company’ before October [ Read More ]
Nano — “an orphan without a home”, as Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata called it — has finally found its home 25 km from Ahmedabad, at Sanand. After the bitter battle fought by Tata against the West Bengal opposition party, ended in walk out from Singur, this news is of immense consolation to the Tatas. The capacity of the new plant is to be higher than that of the abandoned [ Read More ]
