The production of Nano from Sanand facility is getting facelift and by next month the unit may be able to shape the car, said officials from Tata Motors. The formal launch of the production would be made by the company’s chairman Ratan Tata in the presence of the Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi. It is to be recollected that the Sanand facility is on the trial production from December 2009 with the number of units to be increased from the current 100-120 to 200. Already the plant has finished designing 4000 cars and they are ready for roll out, said an unofficial vendor to Tata Motors.
Sanand was the replacement for Tata Motors after it had to migrate from Singur due to opposition from the local people. Tata Motors is on the process of delivering Nano to the first 1 lakh bookings of which 30000 units have been delivered so far. Remaining bookings, it is hoped by the company, would be cleared by this year end. Tata’s Pantnagar plant is making around 200 Nanos a day and there has been a pressure to expedite the delivery on the reason of several bookings are being cancelled because of long wait.
However, Tata’s performance in passenger car is excellent with the growth of 70% in April 2010(sale of 24902 units). The split up figure of cars is – 23102 units of Tata of which 3525 are Nano [images], 9036 are Indica [images], 7201 are Indigo [images] and 3340 are Sumo [images]/ Safari [images]. In all means, Nano has made an opening to the cheapest car concept to the other companies- Hyundai to come out with a compact car at Rs2lakhs, while Bajaj is in the small car process in a tie-up with Nissan and Renault.