Great news, isn’t it! but don’t jump to the skies….Tata motors will launch the Nano between January and March 2009 but it will produce nano only in few numbers. “We are looking at something to bring it (out) as fast as possible … kind of an interim arrangement … from one of our existing plants. These will be small quantities. Let a few customers at least have a touch and feel of the car,” Ravi Kant, Tata Motors managing director said.
“If you think the Nano is going to come out of Gujarat, the answer is no,” Ravi Kant said. “This is in the sense that it is already delayed. It will take more than a year (to roll out from Gujarat),” he added. Nano will be rolled out from Tata Motors’ plant in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. The Nano project was hit hard because Tata Motors had to shift its plant from Singur in West Bengal to Sanand in Gujarat in October.
“Larger quantities of the car will be rolled out from Sanand after a year or so,” Kant said. He, however, refused to quantify the number of cars that are likely to be manufactured at the ‘interim location’.