World's cheapest car

The Tata Nano

New Delhi - India's Tata Motors at the ninth Auto Expo in Delhi on Thursday introduced the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest production car expected to cost just 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars).

Ratan Tata, the 70-year-old chairman of the Tata group, India's largest private conglomerate, is the brainchild behind the Nano.

This four-door car has a 33 horsepower, 623 cc engine at the rear and can reach a maximum speed of over 100 kilometres per hour. It has a length of 3.1 metres, width of 1.5 metres and height of 1.6 metres.

It has some disadvantages, like no radio, air conditioning or passenger-side mirror and only one windscreen wiper.

Nano costs less than half the price of India's cheapest car (Maruti 800). It is a safe, affordable and all-weather transport - a people's car designed to meet all safety standards and emissions laws and be accessible to all.

The car will be manufactured at the company's facility in the eastern state of West Bengal. It needs some improvements of the installed capacities that may not happen until year 2010-2011.

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