Tata Motors plans assembly unit in Bangladesh, to make 50,000 cars a year

[KapitaanAli]

Well you had a stroke of good luck it seems.

Partly because the reliable 2-cylinder Bosch engine and transmission is Made in Germany.

The body however is another story. They crash-tested it in Germany (ADAC) and in a four-star rating, it got zero. Even seatbelts did not help. The front end is GONE. I rest my case.

Tata has far better chances of selling well-made SUV's as govt. utility vehicles in Bangladesh. At least you can survive a crash in those.

Pay the dollas or ask Hasina to change rules and you can be safe too.
This successful test was back in the day with proper modifications.
Nano has changed a lot since then even in the Indian market. The price raise wasn't for nothing.

Nano passes tough European crash tests

The Tata Nano has passed current European front and side impact standard crash tests which were conducted at the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) crash test facility in the United Kingdom.

The tests were conducted on July 10 under the supervision of an inspector from Britain’s Vehicle Certification Authority. They were also witnessed by several automotive journalists, including Autocar UK Editor-in-chief Steve Cropley.

The crash tests included a 40 percent offset collision test and a 56 kph frontal impact test, both of which are tougher than the safety standards in the Indian market at present. The driver's airbag inflates as the car bounces away from the block but even though it is lifted into the air, the passenger compartment remains relatively intact. Tata engineers had reinforced the front end of the car to allow it to pass these tests.

These norms will come into force within the country in three years. By that time, Tata expects to have export versions of the Nano ready for sale in Europe.

It also intends to subject the Nano to Euro NCAP testing in the future and is confident of getting a four-star rating.

Tata officials tell Autocar UK that they are “delighted but not surprised” about the Nano’s successful crash tests at MIRA. “We’ve conducted these tests in India already,” said Dr Clive Hickman, Tata’s head of engineering, “so we knew the car would pass. But it’s still a great moment.”

Meanwhile back home, Tata delivered its first Nano to Ashok Raghunath Vichare of Mumbai on July 17. The keys to the Nano LX (Lunar Silver) were handed over to Vichare by company chairman Ratan Tata at the company’s dealership, Concorde Motors.

 

[Telescopic Sight]

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Partly because the reliable 2-cylinder Bosch engine and transmission is Made in Germany.

Here I am telling you that I am an actual owner of the Nano and yet you are using your nonsense knowledge to talk about the Nano ? Seriously? You read something in Google without understanding.
The engine and the transmission is 100% Indian , lead designer is Mr Girish Wagh .
When the Nano Automatic was launched, the AMT vendor was Magneto Marelli of Italy.
The only thing from Bosch was the spark plugs and the fuel pump.
Please stick to something else you actually have a little information about. Keep yourself away from this thread. Unless you like being insulted.

Tata Nano has been discontinued last year it was suppose to be a $ 2000 car or INR 100000 at launch it cost up to 215000 after some years of production. It failed to take off overseas. Bangladesh is like toilet bowl for indians where they flush their obsolete **** down their throats.

Pakistanis buy a lot of Indian origin products too. What will you say to that ? Your words about Bangladesh show your class.
And the nano did have an initial launch price of Indian RS. 1 lakh . The higher models cost more . Same advice for you like the earlier fellow : stick to something that you Know....

 

[Bilal9]

Here I am telling you that I am an actual owner of the Nano and yet you are using your nonsense knowledge to talk about the Nano ? Seriously? You read something in Google without understanding.
The engine and the transmission is 100% Indian , lead designer is Mr Girish Wagh .
When the Nano Automatic was launched, the AMT vendor was Magneto Marelli of Italy.
The only thing from Bosch was the spark plugs and the fuel pump.
Please stick to something else you actually have a little information about. Keep yourself away from this thread. Unless you like being insulted.

Listen my 'telescopic sight' myopic friend (in more ways than one)

I can almost visualize your head-bob and singsong lingo.

Why do you try to insult me? You are new here - your Sanghi insults will be reported to the mods and you'll get banned so fast your head will spin.

I'd rather not waste my breath on discussing that glorified tin-can auto-riksha you call a Nano (and are so proud to ride around in), but every mechanical component of the engine was designed by Bosch (even the design of the body was done by non-Indian design staff), although your IT Sanghi trolls did a great job of hiding all this from the Internet. I'll give one thing to Tata though - cheap rusty sheet metal is 100% Indian.

https://indianautosblog.com/2008/10/bosch-engine-technology-for-tata-nano

I saw videos of some Indian guy posted by Tata in Germany to 'supervise' production of engine at the Bosch factory in Germany (as if they needed supervisory 'tips' from an Indian to produce them).

Girish Wagh was head of Nano project, not designer of the engine - he did not work for Bosch. Get your facts straight please.

 

[bluesky]

I get what you are saying....but you are going overboard with that 100%, 99% perfection measurement.

No, you are wrong with your own perception of Japanese minds and how meticulous they may be when it is quality of their products. Every manufacturing company has its stringent rules and a pool of quality control staff. So, the end result is very high quality products, but the products become expensive, as a result.

Perfection is a part of Japanese culture. This is why the rice cooker that I took to my parental house in Faridpur in 1975 still works. Any way, I am talking here about the Japanese mind, which you may never see in the people in BD even after million years. We are just an opposite type of people.

 

[Telescopic Sight]

Listen my 'telescopic sight' myopic friend (in more ways than one)

I can almost visualize your head-bob and singsong lingo.

Why do you try to insult me? You are new here - your Sanghi insults will be reported to the mods and you'll get banned so fast your head will spin.

I'd rather not waste my breath on discussing that glorified tin-can auto-riksha you call a Nano (and are so proud to ride around in), but every mechanical component of the engine was designed by Bosch (even the design of the body was done by non-Indian design staff), although your IT Sanghi trolls did a great job of hiding all this from the Internet. I'll give one thing to Tata though - cheap rusty sheet metal is 100% Indian.

https://indianautosblog.com/2008/10/bosch-engine-technology-for-tata-nano

I saw videos of some Indian guy posted by Tata in Germany to 'supervise' production of engine at the Bosch factory in Germany (as if they needed supervisory 'tips' from an Indian to produce them).

Girish Wagh was head of Nano project, not designer of the engine - he did not work for Bosch. Get your facts straight please.

So a Bangladeshi guy ( who has never seen a Tata Nano , not knowing the 1st thing about engineering, and can't Google to save his life) is going to educate an indian ( who owned a nano for 3 years, knows mechanical engineering, and also can type in the Google bar) ?

Wow, you really are delusional. Please read your own link again. Then ask a mechanic ( even a cycle mechanic will do to educate you ) if a supplying a brake system and a fuel pump is the same thing as selling an engine.

Please go back to this forums usual fan boy threads about FC 1 being designed by Pakistanis and apply this same logic there.
Maybe then you will understand something.

And I'll ignore the comment about the Indian Head Bob. Nothing wrong in the Bob . And check properly, even your parents do it ! . Try passing comments on them, see what they hit you with , silly child !

 

[Bilal9]

Pay the dollas or ask Hasina to change rules and you can be safe too.
This successful test was back in the day with proper modifications.
Nano has changed a lot since then even in the Indian market. The price raise wasn't for nothing.

Nano passes tough European crash tests

The Tata Nano has passed current European front and side impact standard crash tests which were conducted at the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) crash test facility in the United Kingdom.

The tests were conducted on July 10 under the supervision of an inspector from Britain’s Vehicle Certification Authority. They were also witnessed by several automotive journalists, including Autocar UK Editor-in-chief Steve Cropley.

The crash tests included a 40 percent offset collision test and a 56 kph frontal impact test, both of which are tougher than the safety standards in the Indian market at present. The driver's airbag inflates as the car bounces away from the block but even though it is lifted into the air, the passenger compartment remains relatively intact. Tata engineers had reinforced the front end of the car to allow it to pass these tests.

These norms will come into force within the country in three years. By that time, Tata expects to have export versions of the Nano ready for sale in Europe.

It also intends to subject the Nano to Euro NCAP testing in the future and is confident of getting a four-star rating.

Tata officials tell Autocar UK that they are “delighted but not surprised” about the Nano’s successful crash tests at MIRA. “We’ve conducted these tests in India already,” said Dr Clive Hickman, Tata’s head of engineering, “so we knew the car would pass. But it’s still a great moment.”

Meanwhile back home, Tata delivered its first Nano to Ashok Raghunath Vichare of Mumbai on July 17. The keys to the Nano LX (Lunar Silver) were handed over to Vichare by company chairman Ratan Tata at the company’s dealership, Concorde Motors.

I really have to give it to you guys - brave effort in promoting a product that is hardly a winner, either utility or safety-wise. But the Nano's reputation (or lack thereof) precedes itself. You'll hardly find takers in Bangladesh when it was already a 'has been' loser product in India itself two years ago.

Sales of Tata Nano, world’s cheapest car, set to hit six-year lows
Till january, the nano has contributed only 12.7% to tata motors’ overall passenger vehicle sales.
New Delhi | Published: March 5, 2015 3:25:45 am
RELATED NEWS

Sales of Tata Nano — billed to drive the company’s growth in the current decade — are set to plummet to a six-year low in the current financial year.

Sales of the car at 13,333 units till January this fiscal are less than a quarter of wholesale volumes of 53,848 units registered two years back and less than fifth of peak sales of 74,527 units seen in 2011-12.

With Tata Motors averaging monthly sales of little over 1,300 units of the Nano, it is unlikely that the previous fiscal’s volumes of 21,129 units can be met in the remaining two months. Additionally, with Ratan Tata’s dream car failing to cut the ice with customers in India, capacity utilisation in Tata Motors’ Sanand unit has remained sub-par to say the least.

• 
• Tata Motors may use Nano plant at Sanand to manufacture other cars
• Tata Motors slashes Nano production,signals mega slowdown
• We hope to sell 2L Nanos this fiscal: Tata
• The Shrinking of the small car
• Nano to reopen bookings in Sep
• Hardlook: Bumps on Nano speedway in Gujarat
• Tata Motors may use Nano plant at Sanand to manufacture other cars
• Tata Motors slashes Nano production,signals mega slowdown
• We hope to sell 2L Nanos this fiscal: Tata
• The Shrinking of the small car
• Nano to reopen bookings in Sep

The company has cumulatively managed to sell 2,63,619 units of the Nano till January 2015 as against annual capacity of 2,50,000 units available at the facility.

To look at the Nano’s success or rather the lack of it from another perspective, Tata Motors had targeted monthly sales of 20,000 units at the time of launch of the car. Yet, calendar year sales in 2013 and 2014 have stood at 18,447 and 18,531 units respectively.

A key reason for this showing has been the Nano’s failure to create a mass market for small cars. Launched in July 2009, Nano sales between 2010-11 and 2012-13 comprised 23-24 per cent of Tata Motors’ passenger vehicle sales. But Nano sales declined sharply after peaking to 74,527 in 2011-12. The numbers came down by more than 70 per cent in two years to 21,129 in 2013-14.

It is now set to touch a new low in the current financial year. Till January this fiscal, Nano pitched in only 12.7 per cent to the firm’s overall passenger vehicles sales – again a new low recorded since launch in 2009-10.

Tata Motors had attempted to reposition the vehicle from a cheap microcar to a ‘smart city car’ with the launch of Nano Twist in January 2014. The company said in an emailed response that since its launch it is seeing “good retail” and “hope(s) this momentum continues”.

“With power-steering, bluetooth stereo and keyless entry, the Nano Twist has appealed to a younger, more affluent customer. The kind of customers we are attracting today are real good buyers which is a very healthy sign – young professionals,” said a spokesperson at Tata Motors.

Statistics available with Tata Motors hint at a shift in customer profile – in the past 5-6 years, the proportion of Nano buyers in the 24 -34 years age bracket has expanded to 40 percent, from the earlier 15 to 18 per cent. The Nano Twist XT is most preferred variant today.

To further court the urban city buyer and strengthen Nano’s positioning as a ‘smart city car’, Tata Motors is developing for launch an automatic transmission variant of the Nano.

Then there were multiple Nanos catching fire each year for apparently mysterious reasons. But I digress. Enough beating an already dead horse.

https://www.ndtv.com/cities/why-did-the-nano-catch-fire-413775

http://nationalpost.com/news/tata-nano-catches-fire-in-latest-burning-incident-for-ultra-cheap-car

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/in-two-months-28-cases-of-cars-catching-fire/

http://business.rediff.com/slide-sh...show-1-why-2-tata-nanos-went-up-in-flames.htm

https://www.cartoq.com/tata-nano-catches-fire-yet-again/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...do-pre-delivery-audit/articleshow/5147333.cms

Indian Nanos catch fire with no explanation; Tata Motors investigates spontaneously-combusting cars

Several Nano cars have burst into flames for reasons that are still unknown.
(STRDEL/AFP)

India's Tata Motors launched an inquiry after another of its Nano hatchbacks -- billed as the world's cheapest car -- caught fire in unexplained circumstances.

The Nano, hailed in 2008 as a car that would revolutionize transport in India, has suffered disappointing sales due to safety concerns, production glitches and slowing economic growth.

"A Nano car caught fire on Sunday in New Delhi. We have rushed a team of engineers to investigate the accident. The probe is a time-consuming process," Tata Motors spokesman Debasis Ray told AFP.

The company would be in touch with the owner of the car, he said.

The Times of India reported that two brothers had managed to escape after the car burst into flames.

Last year, the firm was forced to offer free safety upgrades after several Nanos caught fire in various incidents, but it has always maintained that the car has no safety problems.

The cheapest no-frills Nano model costs about $2,500.

AFP/Relaxnews

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[Mage]

No, you are wrong with your own perception of Japanese minds and how meticulous they may be when it is quality of their products. Every manufacturing company has its stringent rules and a pool of quality control staff. So, the end result is very high quality products, but the products become expensive, as a result.

Perfection is a part of Japanese culture. This is why the rice cooker that I took to my parental house in Faridpur in 1975 still works. Any way, I am talking here about the Japanese mind, which you may never see in the people in BD even after million years. We are just an opposite type of people.

As an engineer, I can tell you that perfection doesn't exist..I do agree Japan makes some of the best quality products in the world...but if they were perfect there wouldn't be any room for development, right?

 

[Bilal9]

As an engineer, I can tell you that perfection doesn't exist..I do agree Japan makes some of the best quality products in the world...but if they were perfect there wouldn't be any room for development, right?

We're not talking about perfection - even Japanese brands have faced the exploding airbag recall by Takata which is a Japanese company. But you have to get the basics right. How does a brand new vehicle catch fire right outside a showroom while you are trying to drive it home. So many things have gone wrong in that scenario....

I feel like we are wasting our breath discussing this here. That Abdul Matlub Ahmed guy (NITOL) is a moron, he is a known entity to our family. He became an early sycophant for Indian brands. If you know him too - my condolences. No one will plunk down good cash for an Indian product like this. They have a long way to go to convince people in Bangladesh. Trucks maybe, for the uneducated truck driver folks, and because they are cheap.

On principle, we should not be patronizing Indian products - for their hostile actions against our country. We know this as a nation. The fact that we still do, should be a source of shame for us. All in good time - I guess...

 

[A.A. Khan]

You're text books taught you that you won all wars against India. No wonder you still believe that PAC manufactures you're junk fighter but in reality, it only paints that junk with cheap Chinese paint. If using abusive words just to vent out you're frustration is what you're madrassa taught you, be it.

HAhahah yeah if New York times, times of india and other foreign newspapers are part of my textbooks. Textbooks are still better than Hindutva social media which believes internet was invented in India BC, ganesha was the first patient to have been subjected to plastic surgery and Nehru created Pakistan rofl. Your hindutva terrorist social media shows the level of intelect and education both probably attained in RSS seva dham school where one gets learning by bowing infront of Godse [Gandhi's killer] picture.

 

[A.A. Khan]

Pakistanis buy a lot of Indian origin products too. What will you say to that ? Your words about Bangladesh show your class.
And the nano did have an initial launch price of Indian RS. 1 lakh . The higher models cost more . Same advice for you like the earlier fellow : stick to something that you Know....

First educate yourself on Factory price and basic car features before spreading disinformation on this ghatiya ripoff that no one came to buy. Your stupid defense of a flop car shows your class.

 

[bluesky]

As an engineer, I can tell you that perfection doesn't exist..I do agree Japan makes some of the best quality products in the world...but if they were perfect there wouldn't be any room for development, right?

I wonder, why do you keep on arguing over the high quality of a nation who you have never faced? Who can stop you from thinking blindly in your own way? Yes, the society you live in and work has no value system and people are not taught about quality.

The basic is, only high quality people can produce high quality goods. This is why a Japanese production company cannot produce the same quality goods in its overseas subsidiaries, although same machines as in Japan are also used there. Human factor is very important and all the Japanese are nurtured about quality when they are in kindergartens. All the big companies produce tons of literature to teach their new workers. It is same/similar in Germany.

 

[KapitaanAli]

I really have to give it to you guys - brave effort in promoting a product that is hardly a winner, either utility or safety-wise. But the Nano's reputation (or lack thereof) precedes itself. You'll hardly find takers in Bangladesh when it was already a 'has been' loser product in India itself two years ago.

Sales of Tata Nano, world’s cheapest car, set to hit six-year lows
Till january, the nano has contributed only 12.7% to tata motors’ overall passenger vehicle sales.
New Delhi | Published: March 5, 2015 3:25:45 am
RELATED NEWS

Sales of Tata Nano — billed to drive the company’s growth in the current decade — are set to plummet to a six-year low in the current financial year.

Sales of the car at 13,333 units till January this fiscal are less than a quarter of wholesale volumes of 53,848 units registered two years back and less than fifth of peak sales of 74,527 units seen in 2011-12.

With Tata Motors averaging monthly sales of little over 1,300 units of the Nano, it is unlikely that the previous fiscal’s volumes of 21,129 units can be met in the remaining two months. Additionally, with Ratan Tata’s dream car failing to cut the ice with customers in India, capacity utilisation in Tata Motors’ Sanand unit has remained sub-par to say the least.

• 
• Tata Motors may use Nano plant at Sanand to manufacture other cars
• Tata Motors slashes Nano production,signals mega slowdown
• We hope to sell 2L Nanos this fiscal: Tata
• The Shrinking of the small car
• Nano to reopen bookings in Sep
• Hardlook: Bumps on Nano speedway in Gujarat
• Tata Motors may use Nano plant at Sanand to manufacture other cars
• Tata Motors slashes Nano production,signals mega slowdown
• We hope to sell 2L Nanos this fiscal: Tata
• The Shrinking of the small car
• Nano to reopen bookings in Sep

The company has cumulatively managed to sell 2,63,619 units of the Nano till January 2015 as against annual capacity of 2,50,000 units available at the facility.

To look at the Nano’s success or rather the lack of it from another perspective, Tata Motors had targeted monthly sales of 20,000 units at the time of launch of the car. Yet, calendar year sales in 2013 and 2014 have stood at 18,447 and 18,531 units respectively.

A key reason for this showing has been the Nano’s failure to create a mass market for small cars. Launched in July 2009, Nano sales between 2010-11 and 2012-13 comprised 23-24 per cent of Tata Motors’ passenger vehicle sales. But Nano sales declined sharply after peaking to 74,527 in 2011-12. The numbers came down by more than 70 per cent in two years to 21,129 in 2013-14.

It is now set to touch a new low in the current financial year. Till January this fiscal, Nano pitched in only 12.7 per cent to the firm’s overall passenger vehicles sales – again a new low recorded since launch in 2009-10.

Tata Motors had attempted to reposition the vehicle from a cheap microcar to a ‘smart city car’ with the launch of Nano Twist in January 2014. The company said in an emailed response that since its launch it is seeing “good retail” and “hope(s) this momentum continues”.

“With power-steering, bluetooth stereo and keyless entry, the Nano Twist has appealed to a younger, more affluent customer. The kind of customers we are attracting today are real good buyers which is a very healthy sign – young professionals,” said a spokesperson at Tata Motors.

Statistics available with Tata Motors hint at a shift in customer profile – in the past 5-6 years, the proportion of Nano buyers in the 24 -34 years age bracket has expanded to 40 percent, from the earlier 15 to 18 per cent. The Nano Twist XT is most preferred variant today.

To further court the urban city buyer and strengthen Nano’s positioning as a ‘smart city car’, Tata Motors is developing for launch an automatic transmission variant of the Nano.

Then there were multiple Nanos catching fire each year for apparently mysterious reasons. But I digress. Enough beating an already dead horse.

https://www.ndtv.com/cities/why-did-the-nano-catch-fire-413775

http://nationalpost.com/news/tata-nano-catches-fire-in-latest-burning-incident-for-ultra-cheap-car

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/in-two-months-28-cases-of-cars-catching-fire/

http://business.rediff.com/slide-sh...show-1-why-2-tata-nanos-went-up-in-flames.htm

https://www.cartoq.com/tata-nano-catches-fire-yet-again/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...do-pre-delivery-audit/articleshow/5147333.cms

Indian Nanos catch fire with no explanation; Tata Motors investigates spontaneously-combusting cars

Several Nano cars have burst into flames for reasons that are still unknown.
(STRDEL/AFP)

India's Tata Motors launched an inquiry after another of its Nano hatchbacks -- billed as the world's cheapest car -- caught fire in unexplained circumstances.

The Nano, hailed in 2008 as a car that would revolutionize transport in India, has suffered disappointing sales due to safety concerns, production glitches and slowing economic growth.

"A Nano car caught fire on Sunday in New Delhi. We have rushed a team of engineers to investigate the accident. The probe is a time-consuming process," Tata Motors spokesman Debasis Ray told AFP.

The company would be in touch with the owner of the car, he said.

The Times of India reported that two brothers had managed to escape after the car burst into flames.

Last year, the firm was forced to offer free safety upgrades after several Nanos caught fire in various incidents, but it has always maintained that the car has no safety problems.

The cheapest no-frills Nano model costs about $2,500.

AFP/Relaxnews

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So you've shared links of the same news from a decade ago over and over without noticing that they all belong to the early batches.
You also shared a random link about other cars, nothing to do with nano.

1 Lakh is way too low for a car and it was a mistake. Now it's costlier and thus a different car. It still won't sell good in India because we've moved onto 800-1000cc as our base and that's the category everyone wants.

So, if you've anything that's not outdated, do share.

A comparison of 2015 nano with the Alto K10 which is extremely popular, for actual Bangladeshis. Not for those who sit in some foreign land and get heartburn whenever they see "India" and then claim that Bangladesh makes everything better just to soothe their ego before white massa. Not one care in their mind for those who live in BD.

 

[Neptune_]

Excellent news. It will create job opportunities for us.

 

[nang2]

What's the point? One can buy whatever((legal) he wants with his/her money.......

So can anyone ridicule anyone else for whatever reason he likes.

 

[KapitaanAli]

We owned a NANO , Its garbage .
Auto is better than NANO.

An Auto can climb & slope,
But a Nano cannot climb the Slope after paying 2.3 Lakhs + 40,000 registration & paper work.

Arrange 5 Lakhs ,you will get a Second Hand,
Nissan Duster which is 7 seater Off Road SUV.

Yes, that would be a much better investment, unless your needs are mostly city oriented. Then nano is a great choice.

It's almost purely a city car. A city car cheaper than any other car, and that's the whole point behind it.