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Tata Nano Hybrid and Hot Rod Coming to Market
The New York Times ^
| December 9, 2009, 4:15 pm
| NICK KURCZEWSKI
Posted on 12/11/2009 5:43:31 AM PST by Cronos
The worldâs cheapest car is about to get greener and sportier.
A hybrid version of the tiny Tata Nano has been confirmed by Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, according to South Koreaâs Maeil Business Newspaper.
The current gasoline-powered Nano â on sale in India since April â is hardly a gas guzzler. Powered by a tiny, 35-horsepower 2-cylinder gas engine, the Nano is capable of approximately 50 miles per gallon. A greener variant of this engine (or the larger 3-cylinder motor planned for export markets) could make the Nano the worldÂs cheapest hybrid.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: automakers; energy; hybrid; india; tata; tatas
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"the Nano is capable of approximately 50 miles per gallon"
A Jetta TDI can achieve >50 mpg on the highway.
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:21:11 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Cronos
Fer crying out loud at least build something that attracts the opposite sex!
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:22:58 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(Would spring please arrive early, My new motorcycle awaits to run free and wild.)
To: Cronos
This should tell everyone that out-sourcing American jobs to India is not a good idea.
You want a country handling your high-tech...when they make a car like this?
Put a blade under it...we can call it a lawnmower
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:33:28 AM PST
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(Al Gore is neither a scientist (Global Warming Fraud) nor an economist (Free Trade, NAFTA))
To: GOP_Party_Animal
There has only been one other car this ugly:
I beg to differ my FRiend
To: Cronos
I could use one of these as a step stool so I can wash the top of my Corvette.
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:37:49 AM PST
by
Rappini
("Pro deo et Patria.)
To: Paladin2
I have a Honda Shadow ACE that gets 58 to 60 MPG and looks sweeeeet! Of course it is not so fun to ride in the winter time, but that is what the Ridgeline is for.
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:38:30 AM PST
by
Cyclone59
(I ROCK, Guitar Hero said so........)
To: Cronos
It looks like they took the front end of the ugliest car ever produced (the Azetec) and attached it to a golf cart.
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:43:41 AM PST
by
Husker24
To: Cronos
That ride is too small, I could not possibly get my “Tiger On” in that thing.....
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:47:39 AM PST
by
cmsgop
( Sergeant Mark Renninger, RIP, I'll miss You Dude)
To: cmsgop
There’s not even room for a guy to get a boner in that thing much less get your “Tiger on”
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:51:05 AM PST
by
Husker24
To: SouthTexas
Well isn't that exciting?!?!?!Yeah, about as exciting as, well... Okay, I got nothing.
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:08:04 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: Just another Joe
Oh, I dont know about that.Yeah, but that's a cool kind of ugly. The others are just ugly ugly.
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:09:55 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: Husker24
Theres not even room for a guy to get a boner in that thing much less get your Tiger on Really dangerous--it'd probably trigger the air bag.
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:36:14 AM PST
by
Erasmus
(Sid's oxymorons: Postmodern Intellectualism.)
To: Overtaxed Patriot
Hey I object to that! Those looked okay when you lifted the back and put bigger rims and wheels on it. Had a buddy who shoehorned a Dodge 360 in one, that thing FLEW...
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:43:27 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
Kinda like a blue Darth Vader, eh?
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:45:31 AM PST
by
pingman
(Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
To: Cronos
Looks like a freakin’ dung beetle.
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:48:05 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
To: GOP_Party_Animal
I'd consider drowning myself if I were that ugly, too.
To: Red Badger
If they are going to sell death traps, they could at least try to make them attractive.
To: Red Badger
LOL!!!
Luke ... I am your father!
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posted on
12/11/2009 8:03:30 AM PST
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: Cronos
Everyone’s laughing at this little vehicle, but let a few million get on the road in India with their growing middle class a few years down the road and the resulting increased demand for oil/fuel spiking, gasoline over here is liable to be several dollars a gallon more. Some laughing now may find themselves having to buy one to afford to drive from point A to point B. Just a thought.
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posted on
12/11/2009 8:08:18 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(All FReepers need to pray Psalms 109:8 daily for Barack Obama. (Look it up. I'm serious.))
To: al_c
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posted on
12/11/2009 8:08:48 AM PST
by
r9etb
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