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11.23.09

India's $2,500 Tata Nano Minicar Coming to US?

Buyers should expect a few tweaks and a higher price
By Mike Spinelli Posted 06.08.2009 at 11:27 am 4 Comments

Will US car buyers adopt a car the size of a laundromat dryer, that costs as much as a sofa? Ratan Tata, chairman of India's Tata Motors, hopes they will. Automotive News reports that Tata is floating plans to bring a version of the $2,500 Nano minicar to the US within three years.

Chairman Tata made such remarks this week at a Cornell University forum in New York City. Deliveries of the Nano to buyers in India, where only one in one thousand people own a car, are scheduled to begin in India next month.

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