Looks like the recall is official. Well, off to the dealership I go.. not! http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iinfaBQFqK_RIgvPNYCmc-kDCYyAD9HVOHH80 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...lls-458-Italia-cars-after-spate-of-fires.html
It is better to buy an old car of good quality/engineering for $2500 whose original price was high rather than buying a new car for $2500.
Will Tata Motors be able to recall 200,000 Nano cars sold?. Tata Motors will not be able to afford the recall of Nano cars with the original price of $2500. The original price was bad planning and management.
Detroit Automaker imports 100,000 tata's as "raw materials" at a discounted rate of $2000. They hire Union workers to place branding decals and VIN tags. They mark this "finished" product up to $5000 - $7000. Now you have a Made in the USA vehicle.
As per Tata Motors, Nano cars may catch fire if customers add extra accessories e.g. central locking etc
Not one of your posts in this thread (after the first one) make any sense. : ) Is coolio still around?
I am surprised the whells don't come off on this crappy cars built by a well known scammer Ratan tata.
Sales stall for cheapest car But the Nano's fortunes have gone into a tailspin with last month's sales of the snub-nosed "people's car" plunging 85 percent from a year earlier to an all-time low of 509 units, despite a rapidly expanding vehicle market. While the five-seater Nano, which hit the roads with a price tag of 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars), has battled troubles such as fires in some of its cars and production delays, other small cars have boasted impressive sales figures. In November, 33,000 of the next cheapest car on the market, the Alto from Japanese-owned market leader Maruti Suzuki, drove out of showrooms even though they cost twice the price. India's launch of the world's cheapest car, the Nano, was expected to create a vast new market segment in the nation of 1.2 billion people, but reality has fallen short of expectations. "We are at the gates --- offering a new form of transportation to the people of India," said a proud Tata chairman Ratan Tata at the unveiling three years ago of the globally-hyped vehicle. Tata, who spearheaded the Nano's development as a way to get India's masses off two wheels and onto four, was likened by some to Henry Ford, who revolutionised the US car market with the Model T. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=167526
I hope nobody was hurt!! Crappy cars come with crappy fireproofing. But hey, give a man some fire, keep him warm for a night. Set the man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.