Tata's Nano to be unveiled in Detroit

[Stoney Toni]

I'm not sure they'd be able to cross the streetcar tracks with those tiny wheels!

There are potholes in the GTA that would eat that car for breakfast.

Muz

Seriously, those wheels belong on a barrow.

Wouldn't do well in Stellarton either. Those Sobey's and their sinkholes!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rPh-6c4cc[/media]

[Muz]

Seriously, those wheels belong on a barrow.

Wouldn't do well in Stellarton either. Those Sobey's and their sinkholes!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rPh-6c4cc[/media]

That's a pothole!

Such a weird production that clip, though!:laugh:

Like their tourism board was trying to prove there was more to it the town than the pothole while that had every one's attention on the pothole!:shifty:

Muz

[dazed&confused]

you might want to wait until they actually meet NA standards....remember the Yugo?

What about the Romanian Dacia buy 3 to keep 1 on the road
or Czech Skoda the best of a bad bunch

[Owl]

Man, they're all over the place in Cuba.
Down there they last forever.

I saw one totally pimped out in Havana.

Funny, you'd think being made for Russian climate they'd rule in Northern Ontario!:laugh:

Muz

The two that I know of in town .....it seemed like the cam shaft was made out of soft metal...never lasted more than a year and they would also rust worse than a ford...maybe they don't put salt on the roads in Russia:laugh:

[grainfedprairieboy]

This car will be an environmental catastrophe. Tens of millions will be sold in Asia to folks who would otherwise not be able to afford an automobile and untold billions more barrels of oil will be required to manufacture, fuel and lubricate the vehicles.

:thumbsdown:

[Muz]

This car will be an environmental catastrophe. Tens of millions will be sold in Asia to folks who would otherwise not be able to afford an automobile and untold billions more barrels of oil will be required to manufacture, fuel and lubricate the vehicles.

:thumbsdown:

At that low a purchase price, and with respect to our high body shop labour rates the insurance industry will be writing them off for fender benders.

They will literally become a "throwaway" vehicle, too expensive to fix. In India right now it's not uncommon to find these mini-vehicles abandoned and enterprising poor people will collect the derelicts and spare parts and built a complete one from them.

I bet Bic is thinking of a merger!:laugh:

Realistically, if they're going to hit the NA market you can bet there will be tariffs, along with NA manufacturing and emissions requirements that will bring the pricepoint closer into line with the NA market.

Muz

[Locutus]

Ah, the humble BIC lighter. Even in death it is useful. You can crack a beer with it (a real measure of the state of your Canuckhood I think), hold up an old sash window in a pinch, substitute for Risk pieces or even decorate your Christmas tree.

Surely there is life after asphalt for Tata. Trebuchet ammo, urban planters, stacked as bunk beds for the homeless or sunk to make Tata reef.

A freecycle project of some sort maybe but there has to be hope.