A company in India, Tata, has officially launched the world’s cheapest car, called the Nano. The ten foot long nano sells for just under $2,000, and hopefully will give Indians an affordable alternative to the motorbikes that have become popular there. As a car, it’s pretty bare bones, with a max speed of about 65 mph, manual steering, and no air conditioner or air bags. With such a small engine, it also has fairly few emmissions- not that it particularly tries to be environmentally friendly, but it’s kind of the antithesis of something like a Hummer.
Something like this could probably never be sold successfully in the United States, but it’s good to see “economy” products used in a way that makes sense. In other words, if you couldn’t afford a car at all before, it’s nice to see someone has finally catered to that need.
The BBC news website also opened an interesting discussion article about the topic.
-Info via news.bbc.co.uk (Original Article)
Also thanks to Corbie for bringing this to my attention.