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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

June 22, 2007,  3:43 pm
India’s $2,500 Car

By Richard S. Chang

Tags: india, mahindra & mahindra, maruti, Nissan, peter stevens, tata  
motors
INSERT DESCRIPTIONAn assembly line at Mahindra & Mahindra vehicle  
production plant in Nashik. (Punit Paranjpe/Reuters)

Let’s talk cheap cars. Very cheap cars. Nissan announced yesterday  
that it’s thinking of building a $3,000 car for India — which might  
have sounded inexpensive, if only Tata Motors, an Indian automaker,  
hadn’t announced plans for a $2,000 car earlier this month.

How is it possible? (Is it possible?) Would it be made out of spit  
and twine? Would there be a risk of the doors flying off? I had so  
many questions, I didn’t know where to start. So I phoned the only  
person I knew who could shed more light on the topic: Peter Stevens.

Fascinating stuff:

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/indias-2500-car/