Worlds cheapest car

JustLen

Just a heads up for anyone intrested. New episode of megafactories on at 10 on Nat Geographic. Not sure is first time being shown or not but sounds intresting. Company in India trying to build a $2200 peoples car..

Pdfile

this has been talked about to death, tata have their own little micro kei car ( along with other manufactuers ) and the car market their is booming...


their gutless engines, plenty of space and lack of saftey makes them perfect for india.

colm_mcm

Thanks for the heads up, sky+ing it

Guy:Incognito

If your disregarding things like safety anyway, surley you could go cheaper than $2000. Load of sheets of tin, lengths of angle iron and the cheapest , oldest engine you can find.

Having a look at this. That do all the documentary channels only have the one voiceover guy between them ? :-)Tony Hirst I think it is?

Pdfile

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

If your disregarding things like safety anyway, surley you could go cheaper than $2000. Load of sheets of tin, lengths of angle iron and the cheapest , oldest engine you can find.

they made them already, they called it the fiat 127

colm_mcm

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Having a look at this. That do all the documentary channels only have the one voiceover guy between them ? :-)Tony Hirst I think it is?

I hate that guy.

Dirkster

It doesn't have a radio either..quality..

Guy:Incognito

Windy windows? Am oot.

colm_mcm

Just pull the handles of and put some cordless drills on

Pottler

Pdfile wrote: »

this has been talked about to death, tata have their own little micro kei car ( along with other manufactuers ) and the car market their is booming...


their gutless engines, plenty of space and lack of saftey makes them perfect for india.

Condescending. These people will eat our economies for breakfast in the decades to come and small, simple, economical cars are the future. We make very little here, our red tape smothers industry. Anyone notice the robotic assembly line? Nothing backward to see there. The focus of commerce is shifting towards India and China and very much away from pampered Europe.

bbuzz

Pdfile wrote: »

tata have their own little micro kei car ( along with other manufactuers ) and the car market their is booming...

Actually Tata have sold very small amounts of the Nano, all of Tata Motors' profit comes from Jaguar Land Rover.

http://www.bsmotoring.com/news/big-sales-problemtatas-small-car/3888/1

savagecabbages

Stick an Audi badge on the front and it'd fly out of the showrooms here:p

MidnightQueen

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/04/us-nanocar-idUSTRE80306A20120104 LOL

positron

bbuzz wrote: »

Actually Tata have sold very small amounts of the Nano, all of Tata Motors' profit comes from Jaguar Land Rover.

http://www.bsmotoring.com/news/big-sales-problemtatas-small-car/3888/1

Nano's are selling rather well lately, for whatever reason.

For those who love stats, here's car sales figures in India for last month (March 2012).



Maruti, and Indian company that sells mostly Suzuki cars, has been leading the market for years. Maruti Alto, with 800cc / 1L engines with a price tag of around €3.5k sells in thousands all over India every single day. Maruti also hit jackpot with Suzuki Swift - which will cost about €10k in India.

Hyundai is trying their best to get a share of the market, and they have released a 800 cc car called Hyundai Eon. It starts around €3.5k, and is selling pretty well too.

Honda, Skoda, Hyundai, Toyota, Mercedes, VW, Nissan have all set up factories in India and is serious about the growing market there. Audi & BMW are currently importing cars with huge rebates to compete with locally produced models (huge tax on imported cars in India). It's a happening market. And IMHO, in 10 - 20 years time, the cars we buy here would been influenced by the tastes and preferences of Indian/Chinese market.

More charts:





Source

Francie Barrett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tNcW51iRQ

The response from Tata was even more worrying. Smacks of the response of Ford about the Pinto when it turned out that a rear impact could cause the petrol tank to explode.

mike65

Indians are culturally comfortable with funeral pyres.