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(Message started by: Groov on Mar 30th, 2008, 8:08pm)
Title: worlds cheapest car
Post by Groov on Mar 30th, 2008, 8:08pm
Hard to believe anyone could produce a car for $2,500.
 You would think the materials alone would cost more, but India is doing it.

 The claim is that it passes crash test requirements. But I'd not want to be in this little bug in a front-ender with anything bigger than a Yugo. It just looks like it would crumple up like like a cardboard box.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxWq9bKRmc0
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Groov on Mar 30th, 2008, 8:29pm
Something else interesting is that this Tata company now owns the famous British auto manufacturing companies of Land Rover & Jaguar.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Jonny on Mar 30th, 2008, 8:31pm
My old lady will be getting one for sure.....LOL  ;;D
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by jimmers on Mar 30th, 2008, 9:07pm
The "Nano"? Hmmm.

Probably short for nanosecond, which is how long you have to live after a crash!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Jimmers
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Groov on Mar 30th, 2008, 9:18pm

on 03/30/08 at 21:07:55, jimmers wrote:
The "Nano"? Hmmm.

Probably short for nanosecond, which is how long you have to live after a crash!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Jimmers

 It's gotta be dangerous. However, it is designed to use in city driving in India where you aren't likely to collide with a big car. I think it would be ok if you were a citizen of India and didnt have much money to buy a car. Many of them ride motorcycles to work  or a bicycle. Even as tiny as the Nano is, it's still likely better than riding in the rain on a cycle.
Dave
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Mosaicwench on Mar 30th, 2008, 9:51pm
JrBrew wants one - says it would be a great first car . . . . I imagine the import fees would be astronomical.

I just don't see it.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Groov on Mar 30th, 2008, 9:56pm
I don't know what the import shipping fees would be Pat. If they set up dealerships, they could do it just like the Japanese do.
I don't for see it selling all that well here. We like bigger cars, but gas prices the way they are...who knows???
They claim it will do 70 m.p.h. and have air-cond.

I still like my Toyota X-Runner. Not too big, but not too small either.
Dave
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Kevin_M on Mar 31st, 2008, 1:26am

on 03/30/08 at 20:08:14, Groov wrote:
I'd not want to be in this little bug in a front-ender with anything bigger than a Yugo.



on 03/30/08 at 21:18:46, Groov wrote:
 It's gotta be dangerous.


Back when the Yugos came out, a woman was crossing the 5 mile long Mackinaw Bridge that connects our upper peninsula with the lower.  The wind blew the car over the side of the bridge.  After that, my friend named his racehorse Yugo Over.


http://www.mackinacbridge.org/images/resized/114-23.jpg



Quote:
Leslie Pluhar's 1987 Yugo, a small car, plunged from the bridge more than 150 feet to the straits below. It was the first vehicle to fall off the five-mile span since it opened. Gale force winds blowing from the northwest helped lift her car off the roadway and over the side.

http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=156
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Annette on Mar 31st, 2008, 3:25am

on 03/31/08 at 01:26:42, Kevin_M wrote:
Back when the Yugos came out, a woman was crossing the 5 mile long Mackinaw Bridge that connects our upper peninsula with the lower.  The wind blew the car over the side of the bridge.  After that, my friend named his racehorse Yugo Over.



Well, then this new car is already very aptly named as Tata.

If you drive it over a big bridge and gale force wind blows you and car into the water then your friends can wave to you "tata" ... as in bye bye   ;;D
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by outofcommission on Mar 31st, 2008, 3:54am
i remember in high school some kid had a yugo. it took 4 of us to pick it up and turn it sideways in its parking space. ;;D he would get so pissed cuz he had to wait until the cars beside him pulled out before he could leave.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by zwibbs/Scott on Mar 31st, 2008, 6:19am
I'll bet that the Nano flips if you hit a squirrel.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by chewy on Mar 31st, 2008, 6:52am
Are they going to be selling them at the 7-11 ?
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by zwibbs/Scott on Mar 31st, 2008, 7:15am

on 03/31/08 at 06:52:22, chewy wrote:
Are they going to be selling them at the 7-11 ?

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Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Emily on Mar 31st, 2008, 2:22pm
I'ev got a friend who commutes in Central London.

This is what she drives so she doesn't have to pay the congestion charge. It's called a G-Wiz and she can only fit about 8 supermarket carrier bags in along with her and her daughter!

http://www.g-wiz.org.uk/images/m-g-wiz1.jpg
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Groov on Mar 31st, 2008, 4:48pm

on 03/31/08 at 06:52:22, chewy wrote:
Are they going to be selling them at the 7-11 ?

;;D ;;D ;;D

Buy a Tata, get a free Big Gulp  ;;D ;;D ;;D
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by brewcrew on Mar 31st, 2008, 6:01pm

on 03/31/08 at 14:22:09, Emily wrote:
This is what she drives so she doesn't have to pay the congestion charge.

The congestion charge? Has the entire fucking world gone mad?

Wait - you don't have to answer that. I already know what the answer is.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Annette on Mar 31st, 2008, 6:37pm

I can see the Tata being sold like hot cakes in congested cities like Saigon, Bankok and Beijing ...
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Groov on Mar 31st, 2008, 7:48pm

on 03/31/08 at 18:01:45, brewcrew wrote:
The congestion charge? Has the entire fucking world gone mad?

Wait - you don't have to answer that. I already know what the answer is.



You know Bill...you are bordering very close to harboring a "thought crime"   ;) ;;D
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by brewcrew on Mar 31st, 2008, 11:23pm

on 03/31/08 at 19:48:15, Groov wrote:
You know Bill...you are bordering very close to harboring a "thought crime"   ;) ;;D

Guilty as charged, your honor. ;)
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Emily on Apr 1st, 2008, 3:37pm
Oh yes. In England's fine capital, drivers of certain cars must pay a congestion charge to drive in the centre of town.

It's approx $16 for lower emissions and up to $50 for high emission vehicles (4x4s etc...).

That's per day!!
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by brewcrew on Apr 1st, 2008, 7:25pm
And I bet they roll over and take it.

No wonder there was an American Revolution.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Apr 1st, 2008, 7:39pm

on 04/01/08 at 15:37:04, Emily wrote:
Oh yes. In England's fine capital, drivers of certain cars must pay a congestion charge to drive in the centre of town.

It's approx $16 for lower emissions and up to $50 for high emission vehicles (4x4s etc...).

That's per day!!


How do they collect it?  Are there toll booths at every road entering the city or something?

It seems ass-backwards to me.  The city is where the congestion is supposed to be.  Wouldn't it make more sense to have a congestion charge in the countryside?  It seems this charge would make people and businesses move just outside the city center in order to get around the congestion charge.........but then it would create a larger area of congestion, which would make people go farther out, which would make more congestion..........

They instituted this charge in order to try to deter people from driving in the city, right?  This might reduce the congestion in the city center, but increase the congestion elsewhere.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Annette on Apr 1st, 2008, 11:34pm

I think this charge is to discourage people from using private motor vehicles in the city and instead to take public transport.

There has been talk of similar charge to be applied here in Sydney. I am glad I live and work in the outer subburb.

Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by Emily on Apr 2nd, 2008, 8:23am
For those wanting more info on it:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/congestioncharging/default.aspx

You have to pay it before you get in there, either by debit card or stopping in a convenience store and paying for it. Cameras then record your licence plate and check whether you've paid it or not. If you drive in the zone, you have 24 hours to pay the charge, otherwise you're penalised.

Annette - you're right. It's to discourage people taking their own cars and use public transport instead. Electric cars are exempt from the chage, hence my friend having the G-Wiz!
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by brewcrew on Apr 2nd, 2008, 11:15am
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Title: Re: worlds cheapest car
Post by outofcommission on Apr 4th, 2008, 12:39am
i hope in ten years we can still laugh and snicker about this puny little car. try this on for size. at the current cost of diesel fuel ($3.98-$4.40 a gallon) the volvo will burn up $900 worth of fuel in two days of good driving. thats about $2000  to get freight moved around for a week averaging around 6.5 mpg which isn't bad considering it weighs about 78,000 to 80,000#. thats not let it run while i'm sleeping.


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