Know your Nano

After all the troubles and delays the worlds cheapest car, Tata's Nano has hit the roads! Tata Motors unveiled the car in January last year and received an overwhelming response both nationally and internationally. In Photo: The bonnet of a Tata Motors' Nano car is seen lifted at the company's plant in Pimpri, 160 km (100 miles) southeast of Mumbai, India. Engineers stripped away everything they could on Tata Nano, the $2,000 automobile designed for poor Indians, which goes on sale in India next month. The car is 10.2 feet (3.1 meters) long, 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) wide, and 5.6 feet (1.7 meters) high, and gets an impressive 55.5 miles to the gallon (23.6 kilometers per liter). Tata Motors says it emits 12 percent less carbon dioxide than two-wheelers made in India. The engine of the car is situated at the rear of the car.
Tata has rolled out 50 cars for now from it's Pantnagar factory in Uttranchal. The land disputes at its planned site in West Bengal and a subsequent transfer of its manufacturing facility to Sanand near Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, resulted in delaying the project by over six months. The bookings were opened in April this year. In Photos: Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, right, speaks as Gujarat state Chief Minister Narendra Modi looks on during a press conference after the signing of an agreement between the state government and Tata Motors, in Gandhinagar. The Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, has found a new home in the Western state of Gujarat, after weeks of violent farmer protests forced Tata Motors to shutter its $350 million Nano factory in West Bengal.
Tata Motors has kept its promise of delivering the car to its first one lakh customers at the ex-showroom price of Rs 100, 000. In Photos: Tata Sons Chairman, Ratan Tata poses alongside the Tata Nano, at its launch in Mumbai, India. Tata Motors launched its snub-nosed, US$2,000 Nano, in Mumbai, a vehicle meant to put car ownership within reach of millions of the world's poor. The Nano, starting at about 100,000 rupees ($1,980), is 10.2 feet (3.1 meters) long, has one windshield wiper, a 623cc rear engine, and a diminutive trunk, according to the company's Web site.