Tata Motors shot us a press release informing the availability of the Nano across all dealerships in India. At this point, the Nano comes in three variants and a 4-year / 60,000-km (whichever is earlier) manufacturer’s warranty, at no additional cost.
Customers can also avail a maintenance contract at 99 rupees/month to take care of running costs. The Nano comes fitted with safety tools that protects it from short circuits and fire.
Now that the Nano is available from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, sales should pickup and reach 5 figures in no time.
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Four dealerships of Tata Motors in Delhi will open bookings for the Nano during the second week of September, reports India Today.
The company had stopped registering bookings last year and since then it has turned its attention towards delivering vehicles.
A Tata Motors dealer -
Even though there is no formal announcement we have already received the go-ahead for re-opening the bookings for the car
Deliveries of the freshly booked Nanos are said to begin in the first week of October coinciding with the festive season.
India Today also mentions the diesel model will come eight months later. A CRDI engine is expected on the diesel model, most likely to be the smallest diesel engine with CRDI technology to enter mass production.
The ‘Lakhtakia’ car as it was always called is not so anymore. As Tata re-opens the booking for the Nano, the company is hiking prices of the car due to obvious reasons such as rising input costs. The standard variant of the car with the BS 4 compliant engine is expected to retail at 1.4 lakh , CX at 1.66 lakh & the LX at 1.93 lakh (all ex-showroom Mumbai.)
The company has opened bookings in the state of Kerala in order to garner sales during the Onam festival, followed by Mumbai around the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi & then Gujarat just before Dussehra followed by rest of the country.
The Sanand plant is now fully operational & the company is aiming at producing 20,000 units per month & 2.5 lakh units per annum by the end of this financial year. Tata is also aiming at providing Nanos off the shelf to the customers starting January next year.
Tata had earlier stated that about a lakh of customers who had booked their Nano last year itself will be informed about the price they have to pay at the time of delivery. An official statement from the company on the prices is expected shortly.
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Autocar India reports Tata Motors will reopen bookings for the Tata Nano nationwide on August 15. Bookings have been declared open on August 3rd in Kerala predicting strong demand for this car before the Onam festival in the state.
The company began production of the Nano at the mother plant in Sanand, Gujarat earlier in June and has been working constantly to increase production since then.
Tata Motors, according to Autocar India, hopes to boost volumes to 20,000 Nanos a month by March 2011, which will make it the second largest car manufacturer in our country.
The one lakh wonder, the Tata Nano will be made available to prospective customers without any advance booking from the month of August this year, quoted a senior officer from the company.
Manoj Arora, Senior Manager, Tata Motors -
From this August-September, customers will be able to walk into our showroom and drive out in a Nano
Mr. Arora has said that, with the inauguration of the Nano’s mother plant in Sanand (Gujarat), Tata Motors will now be able to produce and roll out more Nanos per month than it was able to earlier. The Nano plant in Sanand has the capacity to manufacture 2,50,000 Nanos per year currently and this can be scaled up to higher levels as and when required.
The company has already delivered 35,000 cars of the first selected one lakh customers and expects to complete deliveries to the remaining customers very soon.
The company will now also begin the process of targeting the first time car buyers in the country with a new marketing and advertising campaign, since the car has met all the demands of the customers and has performed satisfactorily in the market.
Bookings for the world’s cheapest car Tata Nano, failed to live up to hype. Tata recorded 2.03 Lakh (203,000) bookings till date, which equates to one-third of the total number of forms issued and is way less than the company’s expectation of half a million bookings. Nevertheless, Tata Motors has managed to get richer by Rs.2500 Crores ($0.5 Billion) in a very short span of time.
With these bookings and especially the money, the company hopes to refinance a few debts and keep the Nano production line engaged till mid 2011. Tata’s Pantnagar plant in UP will produce around 50,000 units/yr while the new plant at Sanand in Gujarat, will boast a production capacity of 2.5 lakh units/yr, when it goes online in 2010.
Unusual pattern in bookings
According to Tata Motors, the top-end variant LX has been the customers’ favorite. The base version accounted for 20% of the bookings, the mid-level CX variant at 30% while the remaining 50% was swept by the top-end LX variant.
Prospective owners to be selected by lot
100,000 persons would be chosen from among the applicants through a computerised random selection procedure, and the announcement of their names will be made by June 2009. Deliveries will start in July 2009 and is expected to be completed in the last quarter of 2010.
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Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata has announced that the booking dates for the world’s cheapest car, is preponed by a period of three weeks.
Talking to the media at the 79th Geneva Motor Show, he said that the company will commence bookings on March 23 and deliveries will start from the first week of April. However the procedure on how to book a car was not discussed, and still remains unclear.
Reports stating the car will only be available to VIPs and celebrities initially was rubbished by the company.
As more information arrives, we’ll inform you. So stay tuned to Indian Autos Blog as the Geneva Motor Show updates continue.
Tata Motors has made it official after so many speculative dates and rumors. The Tata Nano will be launched on March 23 at a special function in Mumbai. The car will be displayed across showrooms in India starting on the 1st week of April and bookings will commence the following week.
Details about how to book the car will be discussed during the function on the 23rd. Watch this space for more information.
