Tuesday 28th December 2010

No, No, Nano!

Aston Martin Cygnet eat your heart out...

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The Nano Goldplus - it's for real!

And the 2010 PH award for most sartorially-suspect supermini goes to Aston Mart... No, wait, this late entry just in!

May we present a rendered preview of the Nano Goldplus from our friends at JLR's Indian owner, the Tata Group.

No, you won't get one free with every XKR or V8 Rangie as a cunning ruse to keep JLR's carbon footprint in check. In fact it's a special (needs?) edition created in Tata's domestic market by Titan Industries Ltd.

Why? Well apparently sales of the Tata Nano are sliding at home, from a peak of 9000 units in July to a paltry 509 in November. This is not, as PHers might reasonably surmise, because the world's cheapest car is totally cr*p. No (we're informed by the International Business Times), there's been a tendency for the Nano to catch fire which has 'dipped the initial enthusiasm' of people to invest.

AM Cygnet: Disappointed...

This gold-plated version is supposed to stimulate new interest. On the plus side, it ought to be relatively fireproof...

[johnycarrera]

It's like a kiddies Smobi, I want one in red n yellow! Although that shouldn't be a problem if they catch fire!

[cheesyblob]

so, let me get this... tata are annoyed because they cant sell these for about 1.5k each because they're not fireproof so they make an expensive special edition?



right.

[Draexin]

Trust me, if I ever come across one, it will "spontaneously" burst into flames... *puke*

[pacman1]

The P.H.O'meter now stands at 0.5

[Twincam16]

And they own jaguar - Jeremy Clarkson's idea about the olympics being opened by some XKRs on fire may actually end up accurate!

[Mermaid]

Same guys involved with this?

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

[Escort Si-130]

Completely st car, think its the first vehicle I gave a 0 in ratings. The paintjob just makes it even more of a laughing stock now.

[jontysafe]

Have any of you been to India? They`ll bloody love this!

[Flintstone]

jontysafe said:

Have any of you been to India? They`ll bloody love this!

Surely you mean Luton?

[frosted]

I quite like it , guess if you have 1.5k to spend on transport it would be this, a vespa or a travelcard ?

[hartley]

So it's 100 plus nano's or a new Ferrari - tough choice - they both burst into flames

[zakelwe]

I was reading up on this and apparently to keep costs down it has two DFS chairs in the front and a suttee for the wife in the back.


Andy

[dandarez]

zakelwe said:

I was reading up on this and apparently to keep costs down it has two DFS chairs in the front and a suttee for the wife in the back.


Andy

a 'suttee' - is that similar to this?

[[AJ]]

Mermaid said:

Same guys involved with this?

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

No.

[zakelwe]

dandarez said:

zakelwe said:

I was reading up on this and apparently to keep costs down it has two DFS chairs in the front and a suttee for the wife in the back.


Andy

a 'suttee' - is that similar to this?

How dare you poke fun at my Nano Indian funeral pyre joke!

Good job I didn't mention Indira Ghandi in the Nano ashtray.

Anyone seen Sean Connery? I've got his raquet.

Andy

[PaulMoor]

jontysafe said:

Have any of you been to India? They`ll bloody love this!

Yep, It reminds me of a New Delhi taxi.

[vintageracer01]

[mybrainhurts]

What a pile of snot...

[Wild]

Out here there are a lot of 'art cars'. This would fit right in. In fact, I sort of like it in an odd way to tool around town, just for being so utterly over the top.

[Harji]

Flintstone said:

jontysafe said:

Have any of you been to India? They`ll bloody love this!

Surely you mean Luton?

Luton is more Pakistani than Indian in it's ethnic minority.