DELIVERIES HAVE BEGUN of the world’s cheapest car, Tata’s landmark Nano. The car tipped to drastically alter India’s automotive landscape was personally delivered by Tata Motors CEO, Ratan Tata, to three lucky customers at a special launch event in Mumbai India

Overwhelming demand for the car, which has a starting price from just 140,000 Rupees (AU$3590), [...]

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INTERESTING AND UNEXPECTED news from Tata that around 80 percent of Tata Nano orders are for the top-end model.

With 203,000 orders on the books so far, the majority of buyers have opted for the top-end model’s features, such as air conditioning, central locking and front power windows, despite the 40 percent premium they’ll pay on top [...]

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Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata’s dream of revolutionising the way the people of India  move themselves from A to B is set to come true, with some 203,000 paid orders taken and 610,000 booking forms sold in the weeks following the launch of the 2009 Tata Nano.

India’s largest carmaker, Tata Motors revealed the production version [...]

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Chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata comes out of the new Tata “Nano” car in New Delhi, 10 January 2008.

Nano pre-order sales officially began on the first of April and already over 51,000 orders have been registered. The first randomly selected owners however won’t receive their cars until deliveries begin in July.

Waydahminnit, randomly selected [...]

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Tata Motors has only just this week unleashed the revolutionary 2009 Tata Nano upon the sub-continent and now, according to Financial Times, the Indian automaker may be looking at offering the Tata Nano – most likely the Europe-bound Europa version – on the American market as early as 2011.

Founder Ratan Tata said the company is [...]

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It looks as though today is set to be remembered as the day the automotive world stood still for the 2009 Tata Nano, with a flood of information, stories and video emerging on the interwebs.

The lucky sods over at British mag AutoCar have had a spin in the Tata Nano, and despite what you might [...]

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As predicted by its own dealers, the demand for the Tata Nano has proven to be so great that the Indian carmaker has decided the only way to keep up is to sell the first batch by lottery.

With 100,000 units making up the first run of Nanos, you’d think the odds of winning the right [...]

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India’s road-revolution is about to begin, with Tata Motors set to offer the 2009 Tata Nano on the sub-continent from today.

The little people mover – predicted to dramatically transform the driving landscape in India – is slated to go for an even 100,000 rupees (AU$2850).

For your dollars, you’ll get the most bare-bones car the 21st [...]

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When Tata Motors first whipped the sheet off its sub-$5000 Nano microcar at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, other car makers were aghast that a car could be built for such a low price.

But if last year’s reveal was merely unsettling for the opposition, then the reveal of the Nano Europa at this year’s Show [...]

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There was a time when $3 billion dollars sounded like an impossible amount of money. Now our major banks make profits far greater than this each year and it really doesn’t seem like a lot to pay for two of the world’s more iconic and well known brands.

An anonymous source inside Tata Motors is reported [...]

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Tata’s Nano needs little introduction. Touted as the world’s cheapest car it is set to revolutionise transport in India, bringing the car to the people, making this a true ‘people’s car’.

In the lead-up to its on-sale date it is proving difficult to get top dollar for second hand econo cars in India as the Nano [...]

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Ford’s pending sale of Jaguar and Land Rover took another turn overnight with the suggestion that Tata intend to sell off Jaguar almost immediately after their purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.

According to Edmunds, a source has revealed that Tata has already purchased 450 acres outside of Delhi, and plans to build [...]

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