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WildBillyT

01-08-2008 03:44 PM

$2500 Car in India

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/bu...gewanted=print

Quote:

Driving the cost-cutting were Tata’s engineers, who in an earlier project questioned whether their trucks really needed all four brake pads or could make do with three. As they built Tata’s new car, for about half the price of the next-cheapest Indian alternative, their guiding philosophy was: Do we really need that?

:shock:

Suffice to say these things will never hit American shores. Ever.

BonzoHansen

01-08-2008 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by WildBillyT (Post 409504)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/bu...gewanted=print

:shock:

Suffice to say these things will never hit American shores. Ever.

If they hit anything they will fold up like an empty beer can.

Serisouly, that is a bad thing for that country. Unsafe, no emission control vehicles in a country with pollution issues and a growing thirst for oil. Great.

WildBillyT

01-08-2008 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen (Post 409518)

And you can guarantee that NOTHING is redundantly engineered, so a small failure is a catastropic one. The Indian gov't doesn't give a crap about their citizen's safety, so what do they care?

Ian	01-08-2008 06:20 PM

you guys are missing the underlying point of that vehicle....population control.

qwikz28

01-08-2008 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Ian (Post 409556)

you guys are missing the underlying point of that vehicle....population control.

explain that one. and if you can find tata crash tests... thats even scarier

bubba428

01-08-2008 11:27 PM

yea...population control seems like a correct deduction. Indians suck at driving...so if they all drive them, only the good drivers will survive. its Darwinism with a modern twist.

qwikz28

01-08-2008 11:33 PM

if a car is that affordable in india, everyone will have it and the streets will be too crowded and polluted to get around. or test its safety

Ian	01-09-2008 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by qwikz28 (Post 409651)

explain that one. and if you can find tata crash tests... thats even scarier

it was a joke. india is wickedly overpopulated, so if it has really poor crash test ratings, more people die and the population lowers.

qwikz28

01-09-2008 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Ian (Post 409668)

it was a joke. india is wickedly overpopulated, so if it has really poor crash test ratings, more people die and the population lowers.

i still think an unsafe car in ridiculous traffic is safer than a moped. that country needs help

BigAls87Z28

01-09-2008 02:44 PM

Another fun fact...
Tata is now the new owner of Jag and Land Rover.

Tru2Chevy

01-09-2008 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28 (Post 409773)

Another fun fact...
Tata is now the new owner of Jag and Land Rover.

I didn't know that went through....I just thought they were the preferred bidder.

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