Friends,
From Automotive News (January 10, 2008):
Tata low-cost car to be called Nano.
NEW DELHI -- Tata delivered on Ratan Tata's pledge for a one lakh ($2,500) car today with its long-awaited Nano minicar, aimed at the gap between motorcycles and conventional minicars.
The no-frills four-door 33hp car seats up to five passengers and is powered by a 624cc, two-cylinder gasoline engine and a continuously variable transmission. It is expected to get up to 50 miles per gallon and meets Indian crash test and emissions guidelines. It is also designed to pass international side offset and side crash tests.
It is 29 inches shorter than the Honda Fit.