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$2444 car due for 2008!!!
Hi All,
here is a gr8 news from Indian Automotive Industry legend TATA motors press release... "Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata’s dream project, the “people’s” car, is all set to become a reality by 2008. “The car should be out some time in 2008. It is in the prototype stage and protypes are running. Its cost will be somewhere between a motorcycle and a car,” Mr Tata said in an interview to ‘The Week’ magazine. The vehicle was at the proptotype stage now and the company would soon start producing it before a formal launch in 2008, Mr Tata said when asked at what stage is the Rs one lakh car." - TATA Media reports This car is going to be powered by a 600 cc engine, which could have air conditioning option and seat four to five people . Tata Motors is in the process of building a plant in Singur in West Bengal for the people's car, which it hopes to roll out by next year. I am sure this will make a revolution in the India's car and the biggest 2-wheeler market. As for now foreign companies like Ford, Chevrolet, Opel, Hyundai, Suzuki, Honda and Toyota are making big profits by selling their cars at overprice and sometimes double the price of here(especially Toyota and Honda) for the same models. -Pavan . |
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Where did you get that price from?
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finaly a car to laugh at other then the geo metro
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1 lak rupees is the equivalent of about the amount that pavan stated
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More of the same
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In our current times, when we deal with Music artists {loosely meant}, and Movie and Television writers, who have just enough talent to get away with copying the material that thier parent's grew up with, now we have a flaming example of another. The People's Car. Hmmmmmm. Ah yes. HITLER Introduced The PEOPLE'S CAR to the world. That project turned out pretty well after all these years. The VW line proved itself to be a very long lasting project. We did benefit with a model for the modern day super-highway also. Anyway. The point is, I wish someone would introduce some real free thinking, and fix the whole gas problem once and for all, and put the Oil Sluts where they belong. Danke Quote:
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Of course we can also remember ones such as the Yugo.
Lee
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I'd buy 2 personally. My wife works 2 miles away (long way around) and I'm about 1.5 miles from home. I ride my cycle 95% of the time, she rides her bike about 1/3 of the time. In a heartbeat I'd buy a Kei truck or mini car from Japan even with the same restrictions they put on the $10k golfcart crap chrysler and GM sell. Then again, I'm more than satisfied with my Johnson so I don't need a car to make me feel better about my jock strap size.
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Second, the car does have a few fresh ideas such as a 600cc engine which I'm guessing uses motorcycle engine technology since most engines that small are from motorcycles. I think a nice small displacement vtwin would be great in a car...they are quite torquey on a bike, so a tiny car could probably get away with one if it was geared and setup properly for the application. Lastly, what you would like to see that would be in your opinion "fresh thinking"? We have all seen battery technology and personally I think it doesn't make much sense environmentally or financially to have electric or hybrid cars. That leaves what? Hydrogen and nuclear powered cars??? Solar if you want to really stretch your imagination, but they still rely heavily on batteries...Not really anything seems promising out of those three. The bicycle is extremely efficient, but it's also slow as hell compared to a car and it's hardly getting any new supporters with a new mcdonalds popping up every few seconds all over the globe. Gasoline is extremely potent for it's weight, so it's hard to find anything that offers the benefits. Everything is either too weak or too heavy... |
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Other Options
Hydrogen. Yeah, Hindenburg. But we have made advancements in various technologies since then.
There are plans for Hydrogen vehicle retrofits that have been around since at least 1937. HHO....About 8 months ago someone released working results for a machine that processed water, and produced a solution of two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen. He went on to use the solution to power a welding machine, and went from there to actually retrofitting some vehicles that had a specific type of engine configuration. His story even made it to HeadLine News. For 2 days. But, after looking for investors for a short time, he sent out a bulletin to those of us who were considering his option. A corporation {name undisclosed} bought the entire rights to the technology he developed. I don't mean to lean to conspiracy theories. So, excercise your right to think about this situation, and develope your own conclusions. Then..http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php?js_enabled=1 Try this link. Very high priced. But look at the possibilities. Yes, right now Tesla = Toy. But practicality surely must follow. The worlds entire Space Program came about from experimentation, and what was once considered Toys.
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Plus, there will be other models that will be taylored to a somewhat lower area of the price spectrum.
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