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01-08-2008, 03:44 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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$2500 Car in India
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/bu...gewanted=print
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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?
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Suffice to say these things will never hit American shores. Ever.
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01-08-2008, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
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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.
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01-08-2008, 04:16 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
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.
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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?
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01-08-2008, 06:20 PM
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you guys are missing the underlying point of that vehicle....population control.
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Originally Posted by baddest434
and 1 more smart ass answer by you and i'm going to reach into this monitor and grab you by the throat
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01-08-2008, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Ian
you guys are missing the underlying point of that vehicle....population control.
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explain that one. and if you can find tata crash tests... thats even scarier
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Originally Posted by LS1ow
Except Jersey mike, great kid, but the way he looks at me makes me feel like im in danger
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01-08-2008, 11:27 PM
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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.
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01-08-2008, 11:33 PM
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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
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Originally Posted by LS1ow
Except Jersey mike, great kid, but the way he looks at me makes me feel like im in danger
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01-09-2008, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
explain that one. and if you can find tata crash tests... thats even scarier
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it was a joke. india is wickedly overpopulated, so if it has really poor crash test ratings, more people die and the population lowers.
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and 1 more smart ass answer by you and i'm going to reach into this monitor and grab you by the throat
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01-09-2008, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Ian
it was a joke. india is wickedly overpopulated, so if it has really poor crash test ratings, more people die and the population lowers.
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i still think an unsafe car in ridiculous traffic is safer than a moped. that country needs help
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Except Jersey mike, great kid, but the way he looks at me makes me feel like im in danger
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01-09-2008, 02:44 PM
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Another fun fact...
Tata is now the new owner of Jag and Land Rover.
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Last edited by BigAls87Z28; 01-09-2008 at 02:44 PM.
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01-09-2008, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
Another fun fact...
Tata is now the new owner of Jag and Land Rover.
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I didn't know that went through....I just thought they were the preferred bidder.
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